Boccherini: Cello Concertos Vol 3 / Wallfisch, Ward

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
January 18, 2005
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BOCCHERINI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Northern Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Nicholas, Raphael, Ward, Wallfisch
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 18, 2005
    • UPC
      747313258925
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8557589
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Concertos
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    2. II. Andante grazioso

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    4. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    5. II. Andante lentarello

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    6. III. Allegro e con moto

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    7. I. Maestoso

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    8. II. Largo cantabile

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    9. III. Allegro comodo

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    10. I. Maestoso

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    11. II. Largo

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward

    12. III. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Boccherini

      Ensemble: Northern Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Ward


It may or may not be purely coincidental that this third volume in Naxos’s issue of the complete Boccherini Cello Concertos has been released in the year that marks the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death. Whatever the case, this new recording, featuring an entirely different soloist and orchestra from the previous volumes, should not disappoint collectors of the entire cycle. Raphael Wallfisch proves to be a most stylish and sympathetic performer. He has the necessary technical armoury to cope with the fearsomely difficult writing in each concerto, but also delivers a wonderfully expressive melodic line in the slow movements. Throughout Wallfisch plays his own cadenzas which are free from Romantic bluster and empty virtuosity. The partnership with the Northern Chamber Orchestra works very well, though the reverberant and muddy recording does not always serve the music to its best advantage. While the rather heavy bass line seems apposite for movements such as the Maestoso of the C major Concerto, it appears to undermine the lightness and wit of the rondo finale of the well-known B flat Concerto, and makes some of the slow movements sound more lugubrious than one might have expected. Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)

-- Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine