Release Date: 10 January 2015
Label: Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115188125
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: American Cello/Piano Works
Description
Having explored much of twentieth-century British works for cello and piano, the Watkins brothers now turn their attention to the American contribution to this repertoire. The music spans a fascinating period of some four decades of intensive compositional activity in the United-States. The earliest piece in the collection, Barber's Cello Sonata (1932), was for many years considered as the only modern work in the genre. It is imbued with an intensely romantic spirit utterly different from the folk-tinged nationalism of contemporaneous music by Copland, represented here by arrangements of two numbers from his popular cowboy ballet Billy the Kid. Carter's highly original and technically demanding Cello Sonata and Crumb's idiosyncratic Sonata for Solo Cello are worlds apart from the traditional vein of Barber piece. The works marked watershed moments in the stylistic development of two of the most imaginative and distinctive creative voices of their time. Lastly, the 'Meditations' offer a contrast between searing melancholy and moments of jazzy dynamism, typical of Bernstein's stylistic eclecticism
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Janacek:Martinu:Haas
Palm Court Theatre Order
Imogen Cooper
Sydney So:Pikler
Matilda Lloyd; Richard Gowers
Utrecht String Quartet, Ilona Timcenko
Trio Hermes/Ginevra Bassetti/ Francesca Giglio/Marianna Pulsoni
Simone Pierini
Reinhard Kluth
Ondrej Sindelar, Sergio Azzolini, Rosonanza Praga
Maria Umbert Kimura, Somerville College Choir; Will Dawes
Manuel Tomadin
Lilit Grigoryan, David Petersen
