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Alban Gerhardt, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Pfitzner: Cello Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:29 minutes | 1,19 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet
On this Hyperion's release, Alban Gerhardt performs the three concertos by Hans Pfitzner. Pfitzner's early Cello Concerto in A minor was scorned by his teachers (although liked by the composer himself). His Cello Concerto Op.42 is a beautifully constructed work that derives its material from a lyrical cello solo heard at the very start of the work. The Cello Concerto Op.52 is dedicated to Ludwig Hoelscher, a pupil of two giants of German cello-playing: Hugo Becker and Julius Klengel. As a bonus, the recording also includes Pfitzner's Duo for violin, cello and small orchestra.
Hans Pfitzner, notoriously, was a Nazi-sympathising conservative. But that doesn’t mean he was simply writing 19th-century music in the middle of the 20th century. The earliest and most fascinating composition here, a cello concerto dating from 1889 when he was a 19-year-old student, starts like a pious exercise in Schumannesque rumination but takes in startling and richly orchestrated outbursts evoking Wagner’s Venusberg; a reminder that Pfitzner’s finest hours would be in the opera house, with the ‘musical legend’ Palestrina (1912-15), and that he would eventually offer the kind of quirky angles on full-blown Romanticism that were only possible in retrospect.
When he returned to the cello concerto genre in 1935 it was with music of unusual concision, making his typically unsettling mixture of restraint and flamboyance even more effective than usual. The Duo for violin, cello and small orchestra (1937) is also concise but still manages to lapse into the kind of effusive drifting around unmemorable themes that is Pfitzner’s Achilles heel. The last concerto, from 1943, has a few similar episodes but is overall more characterful and eventful, its four short movements conveying an uneasy darkness of tone that is understandable, given the year of composition.
The Hyperion team provide a no less characterful recording, close to the music’s generally expansive sonorities without obscuring its many distinctive details.
Alban Gerhardt is an unfailingly charismatic soloist, finding a sense of purpose where others might lapse into aimlessness, and the orchestral support is first-rate.
Tracklist:
01 - Cello Concerto in A minor, Op posth. - 1: Andante molto sostenuto – Allegro
02 - Cello Concerto in A minor, Op posth. - 2: Adagio molto tranquillo
03 - Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 1: Ruhig
04 - Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 2: Nicht zu schnell
05 - Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 3: Feierlich
06 - Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 4: Allegretto
07 - Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 1: Ziemlich ruhig, schwebend –
08 - Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 2: Sehr langsam – Beschleunigt – Allegro –
09 - Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 3: Ruhiges Anfangstempo –
10 - Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 4: A tempo –
11 - Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 5: Langsamer a tempo
12 - Duo, Op 43 - 1: Allegro moderato –
13 - Duo, Op 43 - 2: Moderato –
14 - Duo, Op 43 - 3: Ganze Takte
Produced by Andrew Keener. Engineered by Simon Eadon & Dave Rowell.
Recorded in June 2012 at Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin, Germany
Musicians:
Alban Gerhardt - cello
Gergana Gergova - violin on "12-14"
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
Analyzed: Alban Gerhardt, Gergana Gergova, Sebastian Weigle, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Pfitzner: Cello Concertos (1-3)
Alban Gerhardt, Sebastian Weigle, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Pfitzner: Cello Concertos (4-14)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -5.95 dB -22.66 dB 5:38 12-Duo, Op 43 - 1: Allegro moderato –
DR12 -6.71 dB -26.56 dB 1:50 13-Duo, Op 43 - 2: Moderato –
DR14 -1.69 dB -21.04 dB 4:23 14-Duo, Op 43 - 3: Ganze Takte
DR16 -0.27 dB -22.42 dB 10:25 01-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op posth. - 1: Andante molto sostenuto – Allegro
DR17 -0.10 dB -23.29 dB 12:51 02-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op posth. - 2: Adagio molto tranquillo
DR14 -1.80 dB -23.74 dB 7:37 03-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 1: Ruhig
DR14 -1.75 dB -22.25 dB 3:00 04-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 2: Nicht zu schnell
DR12 -12.69 dB -29.97 dB 2:49 05-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 3: Feierlich
DR15 -1.02 dB -23.34 dB 4:33 06-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 4: Allegretto
DR13 -8.01 dB -26.20 dB 3:29 07-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 1: Ziemlich ruhig, schwebend –
DR16 -1.47 dB -23.07 dB 3:58 08-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 2: Sehr langsam – Beschleunigt – Allegro –
DR11 -9.19 dB -26.12 dB 2:00 09-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 3: Ruhiges Anfangstempo –
DR12 -4.33 dB -22.50 dB 1:51 10-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 4: A tempo –
DR13 -7.00 dB -26.36 dB 3:03 11-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 5: Langsamer a tempo
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2335 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Alban Gerhardt, Sebastian Weigle, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Pfitzner: Cello Concertos (4-14)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -5.95 dB -22.66 dB 5:38 12-Duo, Op 43 - 1: Allegro moderato –
DR12 -6.71 dB -26.56 dB 1:50 13-Duo, Op 43 - 2: Moderato –
DR14 -1.69 dB -21.04 dB 4:23 14-Duo, Op 43 - 3: Ganze Takte
DR16 -0.27 dB -22.42 dB 10:25 01-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op posth. - 1: Andante molto sostenuto – Allegro
DR17 -0.10 dB -23.29 dB 12:51 02-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op posth. - 2: Adagio molto tranquillo
DR14 -1.80 dB -23.74 dB 7:37 03-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 1: Ruhig
DR14 -1.75 dB -22.25 dB 3:00 04-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 2: Nicht zu schnell
DR12 -12.69 dB -29.97 dB 2:49 05-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 3: Feierlich
DR15 -1.02 dB -23.34 dB 4:33 06-Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 52 - 4: Allegretto
DR13 -8.01 dB -26.20 dB 3:29 07-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 1: Ziemlich ruhig, schwebend –
DR16 -1.47 dB -23.07 dB 3:58 08-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 2: Sehr langsam – Beschleunigt – Allegro –
DR11 -9.19 dB -26.12 dB 2:00 09-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 3: Ruhiges Anfangstempo –
DR12 -4.33 dB -22.50 dB 1:51 10-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 4: A tempo –
DR13 -7.00 dB -26.36 dB 3:03 11-Cello Concerto in G major, Op 42 - 5: Langsamer a tempo
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2335 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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