Emmanuelle Bertrand, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 (2013) [Official 24 bit/96kHz]

10 stars out of 10 - "This is one hell of a performance of Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto. Emmanuelle Bertrand and conductor Pascal Amoyel team up to produce one of the most intense and neurotic versions yet of this intense and neurotic piece". – Classics Today

Written twenty-five years apart, the two masterpieces for cello by Shostakovich recorded here represent very different periods in the composer’s career. The audaciously insolent Cello Sonata of 1934 is contemporary with Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District – the opera soon to plunge Shostakovich into disgrace with Stalin. It is paired with the bitter and self-questioning Cello Concerto No. 1 from 1959, a work by a traumatized humorist who had long since learned not to laugh. Soloist Emmanuelle Bertrand is joined by pianist Pascal Amoyel for the sonata and by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales led by Pascal Rophe for the concerto.

Tracklist:

01 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 107 in E flat Major: I. Allegretto
02 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 107 in E flat Major: II. Moderato
03 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 107 in E flat Major: III. Cadenza
04 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 107 in E flat Major: IV. Allegro con moto
05 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel - Sonata for cello and piano Op. 40 in D Minor: I. Allegro non troppo
06 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel - Sonata for cello and piano Op. 40 in D Minor: II. Allegro
07 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel - Sonata for cello and piano Op. 40 in D Minor: III. Largo
08 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel - Sonata for cello and piano Op. 40 in D Minor: IV. Allegro
09 - Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel - Moderato for cello and piano

Recorded in January 2012 at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff (Concerto),
& in March 2012 at Teldex Studio Berlin (Sonate & Moderato).

Musicians:
Emmanuelle Bertrand - cello
Pascal Amoyel - piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Conducted by Pascal Rophé


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