Cello Concerto / Stille Musik

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Hindemith's First Piano Sonata is a large, unruly piece that thrashes around like a wounded beast. The other two sonatas are somewhat more restrained in their decorum, but they're all products of the same year (1936) and they all run to wildness. Hans Petermandl, that most expert Hindemithian, gives the beasts their head in a series of appropriately wild performances that never loses control of the music. This is undoubtedly the best disc of the Hindemith Piano Sonatas on the market, definitely preferable to Gould's eccentric versions (Sony) and made even more attractive by the inclusion of a set of variations originally intended for the First Sonata. --Leslie Gerber

Cello Concerto / Stille Musik,Schnittke,Kliegel,Saarbrucken Symphony,Marco Polo,Classical

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Lockenhaus Collection [Philips Digital Classics] Heinz Holliger (oboe) , Gidon Kremer (violin) , Erwin Schulhoff (composer) , Franz Schubert , and Alfred Schnittke Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Septets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Casals, Pablo | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gubaidulina, Sofia | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Messiaen | Messiaen, Olivier | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schnittke | Schnittke, Alfred | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stravinsky | Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Divertimentos | Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Clarinet | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Salzburg Chamber Orchestra | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000E4ZO Release Date: 1992-10-20

Average customer rating: Best available recording of the cello concerto Rather lightweight performances of intense Schnittke

Schnittke: Cello Concerto Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schnittke | Schnittke, Alfred | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Schnittke: Chamber Music Schnittke: Complete String Quartets Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 2/Viola Concerto Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 2/(K)ein Sommernachtstraum Schnittke: Cello Concerto No.2; In Memoriam ASIN: B00000FY9Z Release Date: 1998-12-01

Tracks:

1. Cello Concerto (1986): Pesante moderato
2. Cello Concerto (1986): Largo
3. Cello Concerto (1986): Allegro vivace
4. Cello Concerto (1986): Largo
5. Stille Musik For Violin And Cello (1979): Lento
6. Sonata For Violoncello And Piano: Largo
7. Sonata For Violoncello And Piano (1978): Presto
8. Sonata For Violoncello And Piano (1978): Largo

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Best available recording of the cello concerto.......2004-07-11

Im my view, this recording is superior to the Polyansky/Ivashkin version. Kliegel's playing is appropriately intense and emotional, albeit slightly exceeded by Ivashkin's performance.

What for me is unforgiveable in Polyanski's version, however, is the subjugation of the chimes in the finale. They ring through loud and clear in the Naxos recording and increase the profundity of the effect.

The concerto is already recognized as one of the great masterpieces. Put this inexpensive version on your shelf and wait for an even better version, bound to show up before long.

Rather lightweight performances of intense Schnittke.......2003-12-16

This is a reissue of a disc originally released on Marco Polo at the beginning of the 1990s, before the short-lived Schnittke cult had taken off. It features what were then the major cello works by the composer, though the Concerto and Sonata featured here were later to be joined by a second in each genre, and included what was the first Western recording of the Concerto.

The First Cello Concerto was written in 1986, as the composer was recovering from the first in a long series of strokes that was eventually to kill him. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is very explicitly Romantic in style, with a rhetoric openly derived from Mahler and Shostakovitch, though with a musical language rather more dissonant than either. A gloomy, sonata-form Moderato opens the work, with long cello monologues broken up by ever-more-vigorous orchestral interjections, and is followed by a Largo slow movement. This begins nearly in silence, but slowly builds until it reaches an impassioned climax that leads straight into an anguished, frantic scherzo that rapidly collapses in its own chaos. Out of the rubble, Schnittke then constructs a slow passacaglia finale where the cello gradually soars ever higher over the orchestra. Kliegel and Markson give a clear, fast and rather lightweight rendition of the work, and to my mind this is a mistake: this is one of the most heart-on-sleeve works in the canon, and really needs the extreme interpretation of a Natalia Gutman or an Alexander Ivashkin to bring out its full intensity.

Stille Musik is a touching elegy for violin and cello, well brought off here, but I am less happy with the performance of the First Cello Sonata. This is a three-movement work, rather in the tradition of Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, with a slow introduction leading to a ferocious scherzo and a long, slow, elegiac finale. Once again, though, I find Kliegel rather lightweight in comparison to the (admittedly quite extraordinary) performance by Ivashkin on Chandos.

I would give this disc a qualified recommendation, but only to collectors on a budget or those who would prefer to steer clear of heated Russian emotionalism in these works. For anyone else, Ivashkin provides an obvious alternative in both major pieces, particularly as none of Gutman's recordings of the Concerto appear to be easily available at present.

Average customer rating: Terrific

Schnittke: Cello Concerto/Cello Sonata/Stille Musik Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schnittke | Schnittke, Alfred | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000045WG Release Date: 1992-12-17

Tracks:

1. Pesante Moderato
2. Largo
3. Allegro Vivace
4. Largo
5. Lento
6. Largo
7. Presto
8. Largo

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Hindemith's First Piano Sonata is a large, unruly piece that thrashes around like a wounded beast. The other two sonatas are somewhat more restrained in their decorum, but they're all products of the same year (1936) and they all run to wildness. Hans Petermandl, that most expert Hindemithian, gives the beasts their head in a series of appropriately wild performances that never loses control of the music. This is undoubtedly the best disc of the Hindemith Piano Sonatas on the market, definitely preferable to Gould's eccentric versions (Sony) and made even more attractive by the inclusion of a set of variations originally intended for the First Sonata. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Terrific.......1998-12-28

I have several recordings of the Schnittke Cello Sonata including the BIS one. I find this one the most satisfactory. Despite the somewhat snotty tone of the Gramaphone review, Schnittke is to me a truly fascinating composer (perhaps that is why I find Gramaphone reviews are generally to be ignored). Schnittke was clearly influenced by Hindemith and at least here he has produced a gem of the cello literature.

Track Listings:

1. Cello Concertos [Import]
2. Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 / Phantasiestucke
3. Chamber Music / Grand Duo Concertant
4. Charles Valentin Alkan: Esquisses, Op. 63
5. Codex La Huelgas (13th-14th Century)
6. Complete Orchestral Works 16
7. Complete Orchestral Works 22
8. Complete Orchestral Works 28
9. Complete Orchestral Works 3
10. Complete Orchestral Works 7

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Groovin [Import]

Mozart! Vol. 5: Quintet (after K.458) / Octet (after K.452) / Quartet K.deest - Consortium Classicum

Louis Armstrong [Box set]

Music: Mystery of Majesty

Make Yr Life [Import]

Mind Games

Lyle E. Henderson & Emmanuel

Musica Mediterranea: Music of the Italian & Spanish Renaissance

Louisiana Hayride, Vol. 1

La Marcha del Golazo Solitario

Minor Chords and Major Themes

Monster Band [Import]

Metamorphose

Blackwell Sings Bernstein, a Simple Song

Earth vs. The Radiators: The First 25