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This review is from: Miaskovsky/Prokofiev: Cello Concertos (Audio CD)
This is a sensationally good disc of works for cello and orchestra by Prokofiev and the lesser known, and wildly undervalued, Miaskovsky.
Nicolai Miaskovsky`s music is invariably worth hearing, and his Cello Concerto is a great work, played here by the Norwegian Truls Mork with his characteristically warm, woody sound, accompanied by Paavo Jarvi & the CBSO in a recording from Virgin Classics that must rank as one of their very best, which is saying something. Mork is, to my ears, a cellist who serves the music first, and digs deep for both expression and tone, depending on what is called for at any given moment. As the copious sleevenotes tell us, Miaskovsky (1881-1950) composed `twenty-seven symphonies, quartets, songs and much else`. He seems to have been a fairly modest man, with an attitude to composition not unlike that of Brahms - a `professional` to his fingertips. He is referred to as a `cultivated, gentle introvert`, who was nonetheless a staunch friend of Prokofiev, his fellow composer on this generously well-filled disc-and-a-bit. The two works here (plus an alternative 13 minute finale to the Prokofiev on the second disc) could hardly be more different. Both are richly inventive, with Miaskovsky giving us one of his finest, subtlest masterpieces - mellow, melodic, mournful, at least in the first Lento movement. The cellist plays like a dream, and this is a concerto that ought to be far better known by now. It won Miaskovsky his second Stalin prize, but don`t let that put you off. He was, like so many of his peers, later accused of `formalism` by the same regime of fatuous philistines. Prokofiev`s music is not always to my liking, but his Sinfonia Concertante is a suitably concentrated work that never loses the interest, especially in such a dynamic performance as it here receives. All in all, I highly recommend this glorious recording, not least for the ravishing first movement of the concerto. (Incidentally, there is also a superb bargain reissue from Regis of the same concerto coupled with Miaskovsky`s two cello sonatas, played by Marina Tarasova. It is as fine a disc as this one, and well worth having the concerto twice, particularly given the low price.) Absolutely wonderful.
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