Goldschmidt & Reizenstein: Cello Concertos / Wallfisch, Milton, Berlin Konzerthausorchester

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Label
CPO
Release Date
July 6, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GOLDSCHMIDT REIZENSTEIN
    • PERFORMER
      Wallfisch, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Milton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 06, 2018
    • UPC
      761203510924
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555109-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Franz Reizenstein

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton

    2. II. Lento

      Composer: Franz Reizenstein

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton

    3. III. Molto Moderato

      Composer: Franz Reizenstein

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton

    4. I. Andante sostenuto

      Composer: Berthold Goldschmidt

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton

    5. II. Caprice mélancolique

      Composer: Berthold Goldschmidt

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton

    6. III. Quasi Sarabande

      Composer: Berthold Goldschmidt

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton

    7. IV. Tarantella

      Composer: Berthold Goldschmidt

      Ensemble: Konzerthausorchester Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch

      Conductor: Nicholas Milton


In Berlin the composers Berthold Goldschmidt and Franz Reizenstein developed into products of the anti-romantic “new realism.” However, both distanced themselves from this dry objectivity and sought more powerful means of expression while avoiding the late romantic excesses that at the time continued to predominate in Germany. The surprising fact is that neither Reizenstein nor Goldschmidt felt drawn to Schonberg’s method of twelve-tone composition. In 1934 and 1935 both composers fled from Berlin to England, that is, prior to the tightening of immigration requirements. Influences from Reizenstein’s teachers Paul Hindemith and Ralph Vaughan Williams are audible in the rather harsh, expressionistic character of his concerto. Raphael Wallfisch writes of this work, “Reizenstein’s Cello Concerto is a tour de force for the cellist. What is involved here is an epic and heroic statement in which lyrical and dramatic elements alternate.”