Release Date: 06 October 2023
Label: EPR-Classic
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917724325
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: In Memoriam II
Description
This Scordatura Album is the second In Memoriam album in honour of Pieter's son Dorian. It features two illustrious masterpieces written for cello in alternative, darker tunings: the Bach Suite with the top string lowered by a whole tone and the Kodaly Sonata with the two bottom strings lowered by a semitone. Both pieces are fierce, resilient and profound and although painted in dark colours, they comfort us with their show of sheer musical power and luminous inventiveness.
"Wispelwey delivers a profound and introverted interpretation of Kodaly's superb Sonata op. 8 (1915), without doubt the most captivating for ages […]. the Adagio and Finale, powerfully articulated and structured, streaked with outbursts of revolt if not despair, make us breathe the air from the heights and experience the vertigo of the abyss." – Diapson d'Or
Tracklisting
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Verita Baroque Ensemble
Pieter Wispelwey
Verita Baroque Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Pieter Wispelwey
Dionysos Now!
Dionysos Now!
Pieter Wispelwey
Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Metamorphoses, Raphael Feye
Pieter Wispelwey, Alexander Zemtsov, Utrecht String Quartet
Pieter Wispelwey
Pieter Wispelwey
Pieter Wispelwey
