Enrico Dindo, Gianandrea Noseda, Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 60:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5093 | Recorded: 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 60:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5093 | Recorded: 2010
Dmitry Shostakovich's two concertos for cello and orchestra, both written for Mstislav Rostropovich (whose recordings remain standards), come from 1959 and 1966. Although the first one is a more rhythmic, outgoing work, both are cut from the same cloth, with intensely inward passages alternating with material in Shostakovich's light Russian-folk mold. In the more serious stretches the cellist often stands exposed and alone, required to carry quite despairing material over long arcs. Italian cellist Enrico Dindo, not a well-known name but one that you're likely to be hearing again, is exceptionally good here. For the high point of it all, hear the final movement of the Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126, which is somewhere between Beethovenian and Tchaikovskian in its affect although not in its language.