Yo-Yo Ma - Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40 & Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31 (2007)
Yo-Yo Ma - Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40 & Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31 (2007)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Lyrita
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 315 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 179 MB | 01:10:25
Genre: Classical | Label: Lyrita
Before he lost interest in classical music, at the very beginning of his career, Yo-Yo Ma made this outstanding recording of Finzi's magnificent Cello Concerto. It's still the finest available, though it faces strong competition from Naxos, offering without question the most dramatic and exciting account on disc of the first movement. This matters hugely, because the piece can hang fire if there isn't sufficient contrast between its first two parts. Ma plays magnificently: he's by turns impassioned and richly lyrical, and far less bland than he later became. Don't get me wrong: I have nothing against his current preoccupation, "World Music", save for the fact that his Silk Road colleagues play that music so much better than he does. Well, here he is, fresh, young, and full of life. He never made a finer recording.
Clarinet soloist John Denman also plays his concerto with an extremely limpid, cantabile tone, and both here and in the Cello Concerto Vernon Handley offers his usual excellent work as accompanist. Handley's remake of the Cello Concerto for Chandos also was a big disappointment compared to his work here, not just interpretively but also sonically. These performances benefit further from Lyrita's by now legendary engineering at its very finest. Finzi may have been a minor master, but a master he certainly was, and this disc remains the best way not just to sample these two marvelous concertos, but to hear why Ma was such a promising young artist. – David Hurwitz
Track List:
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31
01. I. Allegro vigoroso 8:51
02. II. Adagio, ma senza rigore 11:52
03. III. Rondo. Allegro giocoso 8:36
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Vernon Handley
John Denman (clarinet)
Recorded: 28 August 1975
Recording Venue: Walthamstow, London, United Kingdom
Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40
04. I. Allegro moderato 16:52
05. II. Andante quieto 14:38
06. III. Rondo. Adagio - Allegro giocoso 9:36
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Recorded: 4 July 1977
Recording Venue: Watford, London, United Kingdom
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