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Grieg: The Cello Works - Transcriptions & Songs / Müller-Schott, Schuch
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Grieg: The Cello Works - Transcriptions & Songs / Müller-Schott, Schuch

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Details

Composer
Edvard Grieg
Artist
Daniel Muller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
Format
CD
Label
Orfeo
Released
Sep 02, 2022
Catalog #
ORF-C240221
UPC
4011790240015

About

Edvard Grieg, arguably the most popular composer ever to emerge from the Scandinavian peninsula, made substantial contributions to the chamber music canon with his violin sonatas rather than with his works for cello: only one sonata for cello and piano (Op. 36) was written for this line-up. Daniel Müller-Schott, always driven to expand the musical repertoire for his instrument and with a keen sense of transcriptions, for this all-Grieg album – which is his 20th album on the label Orfeo – hence transcribed and recorded for the first time the violin sonata in C minor, Op. 45, No. 3, for the cello. Accompanied by his long-standing duo-partner Herbert Schuch on piano, the short Intermezzo in A minor (EG 115) guides us to the second part of the album, where the duo presents selected songs of various characters transcribed for cello and piano.

REVIEWS:

Cello originals and borrowings played with great allure… The instrument’s cantabile qualities ensure that the selection of Grieg song transcriptions works equally well, with Müller-Schott presenting a nicely wide-ranging choice.

-- The Strad

Edvard Grieg’s cello sonata ekes out a shadowy existence in his oeuvre. Daniel Müller-Schott and Herbert Schuch enter the music with the Allegro agitato in such a furious and energetic way that one is carried away by this inner fire and its power. Even in the Andante, for all its lyricism, there remains much nervousness. The finale is buoyant and dance-like, all nervousness has gone, but the energy remains.

Grieg himself considered the violin sonatas his most important works. Daniel Müller-Schott has rewritten the third for cello. Müller-Schott and Schuch play with the greatest expressivity, very full of contrasts, and thus create a tension even through the second movement that does not even dissolve in the Allegro animato.

Also in the smaller pieces, there are two Agitatos, so that even this part of the CD is not characterized by charm throughout. And so there is one thing we probably retain from this release: the exceptional energy and intensity with which the performers play their Grieg. I think even the composer would have been amazed.

-- Pizzicato

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro agitato 09:20
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro agitato
    Duration
    09:20
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  2. 2 II. Andante molto tranquillo 05:54
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante molto tranquillo
    Duration
    05:54
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  3. 3 III. Allegro - Allegro molto e marcato 11:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro - Allegro molto e marcato
    Duration
    11:33
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  4. 4 I. Allegro molto ed appassionato 08:42
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro molto ed appassionato
    Duration
    08:42
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  5. 5 II. Allegretto espressivo alla romanza 06:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegretto espressivo alla romanza
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  6. 6 III. Allegro animato 07:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro animato
    Duration
    07:40
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  7. 7 Intermezzo in A Minor, EG 115 03:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    Intermezzo in A Minor, EG 115
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  8. 8 5 Songs, Op. 26: No. 3. Den ærgjerrige (You Whispered that You Loved Me) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano) 01:22
    Track
    8
    Title
    5 Songs, Op. 26: No. 3. Den ærgjerrige (You Whispered that You Loved Me) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano)
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  9. 9 6 Songs, Op. 4: No. 1. Die Waise (The Orphan) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano) 02:37
    Track
    9
    Title
    6 Songs, Op. 4: No. 1. Die Waise (The Orphan) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano)
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  10. 10 5 Songs, Op. 70: No. 2. Jeg lever et Liv i Længsel (A Life of Longing) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano) 02:21
    Track
    10
    Title
    5 Songs, Op. 70: No. 2. Jeg lever et Liv i Længsel (A Life of Longing) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano)
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  11. 11 5 Songs, Op. 69: No. 3. Ved Moders Grav (At Mohter's Grave) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano) 02:45
    Track
    11
    Title
    5 Songs, Op. 69: No. 3. Ved Moders Grav (At Mohter's Grave) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano)
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch
  12. 12 Romancer, Op. 39: No. 2. Dulgt kjærlighed (Hidden Love) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano) 02:43
    Track
    12
    Title
    Romancer, Op. 39: No. 2. Dulgt kjærlighed (Hidden Love) (arr. D. Müller-Schott for cello and piano)
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Daniel Müller-Schott, Herbert Schuch