Release Date: 07 January 2007
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313261321
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: DVORAK
Description
This recording of virtuoso cello repertoire ranges from the work of the Mannheim cellist and composer, Franz Danzi to the British composer Buxton Orr's 'Carmen Fantasy', the cellist's answer to Franz Waxman's famous violin fantasy. Orr's work opens, unusually, with a cello cadenza based on the Fate motif from Bizet's opera, which links the familiar themes, such as the 'Habanera' and the 'Flower Song', used in this dazzling encore piece. The Spanish theme is continued in Gaspar Cassad??'s 'Lamento de Boabdil', which describes the legendary sorrow of the exiled last Moorish ruler of Granada, Muhammad XII, known to the Spanish as Boabdil. Castelnuovo-Tesdesco's 'Figaro Variations' takes as it theme the famous 'Largo al factotum', which appears in various guises with increasing demands for technical virtuosity.
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Zenz:Cathariou:Iacovidou
Zahir Ensemble
Yun-Yi Qin
