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An album of encores once played by someone else, even someone as famous as Mstislav Rostropovich, might seem an overspecialized product, but German cellist Alban Gerhardt had some success with a similar album devoted to Pablo Casals, and is now back for more. Gerhardt does a reasonable impression of Rostropovich's songful style, overlaid with a bit of mysterious and gloomy Russian philosophy. But the really innovative feature of the album is the program, which draws out the breadth of the great Russian's musical interests, even in the seemingly restricted feel of the encore. Rostropovich understood how to communicate with an audience in a way of which cellists today can only dream, and if he did not have the music he needed at hand, he had it arranged from other media, or arranged it himself. Or he wrote it himself: the album features two Rostropovich compositions, neither terribly common. There are big tunes like the Rachmaninov Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14; brilliant virtuoso pieces like the Elfentanz, Op. 39, of David Popper; folkish fun like Rostropovich's own Moderato; familiar tunes like the "March" from Prokofiev's The Love of Three Oranges; and even influences from the world of popular music like Ravel's Pièce en forme de habanera and Rostropovich's own arrangement of Debussy's jazzy Minstrels, from Book I of the Preludes. Rostropovich's affinity for Minstrels showed just how wide his interests were, and the album as a whole does a good job of surveying that. Recommended for Rostropovich fans.
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Mstislav Rostropovich, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Christian Sinding, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Samuel Dushkin, Arranger, Work Arranger - Mstislav Rostropovich, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Samuel Dushkin, Arranger, Work Arranger - Mstislav Rostropovich, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Mstislav Rostropovich, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Claude Debussy, Composer - Mstislav Rostropovich, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gregor Piatigorsky, Arranger, Work Arranger - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Mstislav Rostropovich, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dimitry Markevitch, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Popper, Composer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Claude Debussy, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alexander Glazunov, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Claude Debussy, Composer - Mstislav Rostropovich, Arranger, Work Arranger - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Markus Becker, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Mstislav Rostropovich, Composer - Alban Gerhardt, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
Album review
An album of encores once played by someone else, even someone as famous as Mstislav Rostropovich, might seem an overspecialized product, but German cellist Alban Gerhardt had some success with a similar album devoted to Pablo Casals, and is now back for more. Gerhardt does a reasonable impression of Rostropovich's songful style, overlaid with a bit of mysterious and gloomy Russian philosophy. But the really innovative feature of the album is the program, which draws out the breadth of the great Russian's musical interests, even in the seemingly restricted feel of the encore. Rostropovich understood how to communicate with an audience in a way of which cellists today can only dream, and if he did not have the music he needed at hand, he had it arranged from other media, or arranged it himself. Or he wrote it himself: the album features two Rostropovich compositions, neither terribly common. There are big tunes like the Rachmaninov Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14; brilliant virtuoso pieces like the Elfentanz, Op. 39, of David Popper; folkish fun like Rostropovich's own Moderato; familiar tunes like the "March" from Prokofiev's The Love of Three Oranges; and even influences from the world of popular music like Ravel's Pièce en forme de habanera and Rostropovich's own arrangement of Debussy's jazzy Minstrels, from Book I of the Preludes. Rostropovich's affinity for Minstrels showed just how wide his interests were, and the album as a whole does a good job of surveying that. Recommended for Rostropovich fans.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:09
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alban Gerhardt Markus Becker
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
© 2017 Hyperion Records Limited ℗ 2017 Hyperion Records Limited
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