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Ludwig
van Beetoven
Complete
Cello Sonatas (2 SACDs)
Manuel
Fischer-Dieskau,cello
Connie Shih, piano
MDG
903 2067-6
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Beethoven's
five sonatas for violoncello and piano form a cosmos all of their
own. They exemplarily represent this Titan's three compositional
periods, and the interrelations between them shape a surprisingly
self-contained work group surveying the composer's entire life.
Reason enough for Manuel Fischer-Dieskau and Connie Shih to present
an absolutely new recording of this cycle - now for the first time
on SACD in original 2+2+2 surround sound!
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Waldemar
von Bausznern
Chamber
Music Vol. 2
Quintet
Acht Kammergesänge
String Trio
Maria Bengtsson,
soprano
Berolina Ensemble
MDG 948 2071-6
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The Berolina
Ensemble scored a sensational success with its discovery of Waldemar
von Bausznern's music - and not without reason. Bausznern's music
is distinguished by individual wit and instrumented with rich imagination,
and what the young Berlin chamber ensemble gets out of the unusual
instrumental combinations is an absolute listening must. Now the
Berolinas have unearthed yet another treasure trove: a quintet and
a trio frame Bausznern's Chamber Songs, which Maria Bengtsson interprets
with a fine feel for the traditional French, German, and Italian
melodies.
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Grigori
Frid
Clarinet Sonatas
John
Finucane, clarinet
Elisaveta Blumina, piano
MDG
903 2069-6
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Grigory Frid's
politically and morally ambitious operas have made him known to
a broader public even outside his native Russia. His chamber music
is not so popular, but it too holds discoveries in store, as John
Finucane and Elisaveta Blumina impressively demonstrate on this
recording premiere of his two clarinet sonatas. Musical wit, tonal
beauty, and virtuosity in the treatment of tonality and instrumentation
reveal a compositional talent stimulated by exchanges with the greatest
of Frid's times.
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Ludwig
Thuille
Francis Poulenc
Quintets
for piano and wind quintet
Dennis Russell Davies, piano
Stuttgarter Bläserquintett
MDG 603 0287-2
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Ludwig Thuille
participated in "Ritter's Round Table" with his friend
Richard Strauss. For the young composer still in search of his musical
self, the encounter with Liszt's ardent admirer and Wagner's friend
Alexander Ritter, in whose home these gatherings were held, must
have been a revelation. Thuille enthusiastically incorporated the
harmonic expansions of the New Germans into his compositions. On
this rerelease of a long sold-out recording from 1987, the Stuttgart
Wind Quintet and the pianist Dennis Russell Davies perform sextets
by Thuille and Francis Poulenc.
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