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With this 2014 release, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein moves out from obligatory concerto repertory into something more original. In fact, the program here is not just original, but qualifies as daring. It lacks one of the Bach solo cello pieces that are usual in such recitals, consisting entirely of music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Moreover, all the music has an ethnic flavor, and one might think that 75 minutes of solo cello music in this vein would be a tough slog. Nothing of the sort. Weilerstein chooses the program intelligently, with the massive Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8, of Kodály shifting gears into Osvaldo Golijov's Omaramor, a sort of anti-tango or refusal to accept the inevitability of the tango for an Argentine composer. That work plays nicely off the Catalan neo-classicism of Gaspar Cassadó's Suite per violincello and the Seven Tunes Heard in China of Bright Sheng, an underrated Chinese composer resident in Michigan, the latter of which take a skeptical attitude toward markers of Chinese melody in a manner something like Golijov toward the tango. Weilerstein keeps this large and potentially unwieldy enterprise under perfect control, and her reading of the Kodály, with intense forward momentum in the cello's high registers, is extraordinary. This still-developing cellist, aided by fine engineering work at Berlin's Teldex Studio, is decidedly one to watch.
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Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (Zoltán Kodály)
Zoltan Kodály, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Zoltan Kodály, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Zoltan Kodály, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Osvaldo Golijov, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Suite For Solo Cello (Gaspar Cassado)
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gaspar Cassadó, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gaspar Cassadó, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gaspar Cassadó, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Seven Tunes Heard In China (Bright Sheng)
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bright Sheng, Composer - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Sonata for Solo Cello (György Ligeti)
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2013 Decca Music Group Limited
Music For Children, Op. 65 - Arr. Piatigorsky (Sergei Prokofiev)
Sergei Prokofiev, Composer - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer, Recording Producer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gregor Piatigorsky, Contributor, Transcription - Alisa Weilerstein, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
With this 2014 release, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein moves out from obligatory concerto repertory into something more original. In fact, the program here is not just original, but qualifies as daring. It lacks one of the Bach solo cello pieces that are usual in such recitals, consisting entirely of music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Moreover, all the music has an ethnic flavor, and one might think that 75 minutes of solo cello music in this vein would be a tough slog. Nothing of the sort. Weilerstein chooses the program intelligently, with the massive Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8, of Kodály shifting gears into Osvaldo Golijov's Omaramor, a sort of anti-tango or refusal to accept the inevitability of the tango for an Argentine composer. That work plays nicely off the Catalan neo-classicism of Gaspar Cassadó's Suite per violincello and the Seven Tunes Heard in China of Bright Sheng, an underrated Chinese composer resident in Michigan, the latter of which take a skeptical attitude toward markers of Chinese melody in a manner something like Golijov toward the tango. Weilerstein keeps this large and potentially unwieldy enterprise under perfect control, and her reading of the Kodály, with intense forward momentum in the cello's high registers, is extraordinary. This still-developing cellist, aided by fine engineering work at Berlin's Teldex Studio, is decidedly one to watch.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:28:48
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alisa Weilerstein
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2014 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 2014 Decca Music Group Limited
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