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The "in memoriam" in the title of this release by cellist Pieter Wispelwey and pianist Paolo Giacometti refers not to any aspect of Schubert's music but to Wispelwey himself and his recently deceased son. The music was recorded previously to this 2023 release but is not a reissue of an earlier album; the pieces by Schubert were extracted from earlier albums also featuring other composers and resequenced here. (A second In memoriam album, with Bach and Kodaly, is planned.) The Schubert pieces are arranged for cello and piano from other media, and one pleasure of the material is how well Wispelwey has accomplished his task as arranger; the challenges posed by the change in register in the opening Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, K. 802, originally for flute and piano, are quite elegantly handled. The ordering of the pieces seems to embody a passage from death to life, with the variations on the grim song Trockne Blumen ("Dry Flowers") giving way to a sonata and a short rondo before the freer Fantasy in C major, D. 934, originally for violin and piano and again artfully arranged. In the performance here, the Fantasy does take on a life-affirming quality. These recordings, when they were originally made, had an unpleasantly breathy, close-up quality, and nothing seems to have been done to improve that, but they do represent a moving repurposing of earlier music-making in commemoration of a tragic event.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Franz Schubert, Composer - Paolo Giacometti, MainArtist - Pieter Wispelwey, MainArtist - Steven Maes, MasteringEngineer, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Felicia Bockstael, MusicDirector
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
Albumbeschreibung
The "in memoriam" in the title of this release by cellist Pieter Wispelwey and pianist Paolo Giacometti refers not to any aspect of Schubert's music but to Wispelwey himself and his recently deceased son. The music was recorded previously to this 2023 release but is not a reissue of an earlier album; the pieces by Schubert were extracted from earlier albums also featuring other composers and resequenced here. (A second In memoriam album, with Bach and Kodaly, is planned.) The Schubert pieces are arranged for cello and piano from other media, and one pleasure of the material is how well Wispelwey has accomplished his task as arranger; the challenges posed by the change in register in the opening Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, K. 802, originally for flute and piano, are quite elegantly handled. The ordering of the pieces seems to embody a passage from death to life, with the variations on the grim song Trockne Blumen ("Dry Flowers") giving way to a sonata and a short rondo before the freer Fantasy in C major, D. 934, originally for violin and piano and again artfully arranged. In the performance here, the Fantasy does take on a life-affirming quality. These recordings, when they were originally made, had an unpleasantly breathy, close-up quality, and nothing seems to have been done to improve that, but they do represent a moving repurposing of earlier music-making in commemoration of a tragic event.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:12
- Main artists: Pieter Wispelwey Paolo Giacometti
- Composer: Franz Schubert
- Label: Evil Penguin Classic
- Genre: Klassiek Kamermuziek
(C) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic (P) 2023 Evil Penguin Classic
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