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Schumann & Dvorak: Cello Concertos / Du Pre, Rostropovich

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Details

Composer
DVORAK SCHUMANN VILLA-LOBOS
Artist
Du Pre, Rostropovich, Martinon, Giulini
Format
CD
Label
ICA Classics
Released
Apr 06, 2018
Catalog #
ICAC5149
UPC
5060244551497

About

This previously unreleased live recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing the Schumann Cello Concerto is her first public performance of the work, given in the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 1962 with Jean Martinon conducting the BBCSO. She had worked intensively on the concerto with Paul Tortelier in Paris prior to this concert. When Du Pré studied the Schumann with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1966, he exclaimed, ‘This is the most perfect Schumann I have ever heard’. The 1962 live performance of the Dvorák Cello Concerto by Rostropovich has also never before been released. He is partnered by Carlo Maria Giulini, who went on to to make a studio recording of the same concerto with him in 1977. The Times critic described this Edinburgh Festival performance as an ‘exciting’ and ‘emotionally supercharged interpretation’ with Giulini’s reading ‘full of finely wrought points of detail’. The attractive bonus features Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya in the Ária from Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Nicht zu schnell 12:17
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Nicht zu schnell
    Duration
    12:17
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Jacqueline du Pré
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jean Martinon
  2. 2 II. Langsam 04:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Langsam
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Jacqueline du Pré
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jean Martinon
  3. 3 III. Sehr lebhaft 10:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Sehr lebhaft
    Duration
    10:02
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Jacqueline du Pré
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jean Martinon
  4. 4 I. Allegro 15:31
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    15:31
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Mstislav Rostropovich
    Ensemble
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Carlo Maria Giulini
  5. 5 II. Adagio ma non troppo 12:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio ma non troppo
    Duration
    12:12
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Mstislav Rostropovich
    Ensemble
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Carlo Maria Giulini
  6. 6 III. Finale: Allegro moderato 12:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Finale: Allegro moderato
    Duration
    12:56
    Composer
    Antonín Dvořák
    Performer
    Mstislav Rostropovich
    Ensemble
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Conductor
    Carlo Maria Giulini
  7. 7 Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: I. Ária (Cantilena) 06:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: I. Ária (Cantilena)
    Duration
    06:25
    Composer
    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Performer
    Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich
    Ensemble
    members London Symphony Orchestra