Popper: High School For Cello Playing, Op. 73 / Dmitry Yablonksky

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
January 27, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      POPPER, DAVID
    • PERFORMER
      Dmitry Yablonsky
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 27, 2009
    • UPC
      747313271825
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8557718-19
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. Etude No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    2. Etude No. 2 in G Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    3. Etude No. 3 in B-Flat Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    4. Etude No. 4 in F-Sharp Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    5. Etude No. 5 in A Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    6. Etude No. 6 in F Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    7. Etude No. 7 in A Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    8. Etude No. 8 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    9. Etude No. 9 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    10. Etude No. 10 in C Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    11. Etude No. 11 in F Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    12. Etude No. 12 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    13. Etude No. 13 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    14. Etude No. 14 in D Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    15. Etude No. 15 in G Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    16. Etude No. 16 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    17. Etude No. 17 in C Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    18. Etude No. 18 in D Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    19. Etude No. 19 in E-Flat Major, "Lohengrin Study"

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    20. Etude No. 20 in G Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    21. Etude No. 21 in A Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    22. Etude No. 22 in G Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    23. Etude No. 23 in B Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    24. Etude No. 24 in G Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    25. Etude No. 25 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    26. Etude No. 26 in A Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    27. Etude No. 27 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    28. Etude No. 28 in A Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    29. Etude No. 29 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    30. Etude No. 30 in G-Flat Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    31. Etude No. 31 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    32. Etude No. 32 in C Minor

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    33. Etude No. 33 in D Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    34. Etude No. 34 in F Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    35. Etude No. 35 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    36. Etude No. 36 in C Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    37. Etude No. 37 in E Major, "Study in Mordents"

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    38. Etude No. 38 in D Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    39. Etude No. 39 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky

    40. Etude No. 40 in D Major, "Study in Harmonics"

      Composer: David Popper

      Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky


The Bohemian cellist and pedagogue David Popper (1843-1913) wrote prolifically and quite effectively for his instrument. His magnum opus, the High School of Cello Playing Op. 73, is a collection of 40 solo etudes that add up to a veritable bible of Romantic cello technique. Although the pieces are designed for students to overcome specific challenges contained in solo and orchestral repertoire, they are more inventive and melodically attractive than their didactic aims suggest. I'd go so far as to say that you can listen to the studies in large stretches, or even all 40 in a single sitting, without getting bored. Perhaps this is as much due to the cellist as the composer.

Dmitry Yablonsky commands the technique and taste to play the Popper etudes like music rather than mere exercises. Listen to his elegant, unflappable handling of No. 7's perpetual motion writing in all registers. Notice how easily he dispatches No. 13's cruelly exposed octaves and double notes. Also note the veiled beauty Yablonsky brings to No. 28's high-lying passagework, and the perfect poise with which he articulates No. 37's relentless mordents. These are but a few examples that attest to Yablonsky's mastery. Given that Martin Rummel's pioneering boxed set devoted to Popper's complete etudes is not easy to locate and is relatively expensive, Yablonsky and Naxos pretty much have the field to themselves. Highly recommended.

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com