(2CD) CELLO TRANSCRIPTIONS

Παρουσίαση

Schumann and the cello: we may think of the fine, late and rhapsodic Cello Concerto, or the lighter Stucke im Volkston, much beloved of cello students this past century and a half. But here is something different: songs, piano works - including the complete Kinderszenen cycle - and the Second Violin Sonata, all arranged for cello and piano.
The arrangements were made by Friedrich Grutzmacher, that indefatigable populariser of the cello in mid-19th-century Germany and tireless appropriater and editor of other men's music for the cello at a time when his instrument had to get by on precious few original pieces - the Vivaldi concertos, for example, were still stuck in Venetian libraries and would stay there for another century. But Grutzmacher edited the Bach Cello Suites, the Haydn Concertos and pieces by Boccherini, to make them better known, and indeed to adapt them to 19th-century ways of doing things. He it was, also who gave the first performance of the Stucke im Volkston.
No such problems of era exist with these Schumann arrangements, which vary from comparatively straight transcription (in the case of the Second Violin Sonata) to thoroughgoing and imaginative realisation, in the case of Kinderszenen. Grutzmacher shows that these pieces may happily belong to the cello, and even gain a certain mellow charm thereby, especially when played, as they are here, by a young performer of ardent and thoughtful sympathy.

Περιεχόμενα

[CD1]
1. Lieder: Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1
2. Lieder: Du Bist Wie Eine Blume, Op. 25 No. 24
3. Lieder: Er, Der Herrlichsten Von Allen, Op. 42 No. 2
4. Lieder: Dein Angesicht, Op 127 No. 2
5. Lieder: Der Nussbaum, Op. 25 No. 3
6. Lieder: Mondnacht, Op. 39 No. 5
7. Lieder: Fruhlingsnacht, Op. 39 No. 12
8. Lieder: Die Stille, Op. 39 No. 4
9. Lieder: Wanderlied, Op. 35 No. 3
10. Lieder: Die Lotosblume, Op. 25 No. 7
11. Lieder: An Den Sonnenschein, Op. 36 No. 4
12. Lieder: Waldesgesprach, Op. 39 No. 3
13. Lieder: Ich Grolle Nicht, Op 48 No. 7
14. Lieder: Romanze, Op. 138 No. 5
15. Lieder: Sonntags Am Rhein, Op. 36 No. 1
16. Lieder: Volksliedchen, Op. 51 No. 2
17. Lieder: Die Beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49 No. 1
18. Piano Works: Abendlied, Op. 85 No. 12
19. Piano Works: Alpenfee, Op. 115 No. 6
20. Piano Works: Romanze, Op. 28 No. 2
21. Piano Works: Schlummerlied, Op. 124 No. 16
22. Piano Works: Warum, Op. 12 No. 3
23. Piano Works: Frohlicher Landmann Und Soldatenmarsch, Op. 68 Nos. 10 & 2
24. Piano Works: Abschied, Op 82 No. 9
25. Piano Works: Am Springbrunnen, Op. 85 No. 9
[CD2]
1. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D, Op. 121: I. Ziemlich Langsam - Lebhaft
2. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D, Op. 121: II. Sehr Lebhaft
3. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D, Op. 121: III. Leise, Einfach
4. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D, Op. 121: IV. Bewegt
5. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Von Fremden L?ndern Und Menschen
6. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kuriose Geschichte
7. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Hasche-Mann
8. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Bittendes Kind
9. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Gluckes Genug
10. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Wichtige Begebenheit
11. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traumerei
12. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Am Kamin
13. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Ritter Vom Steckenpferd
14. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Fast Zu Ernst
15. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Furchtenmachen
16. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kind Im Einschlummern
17. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Der Dichter Spricht

Cello: Francesco Dillon
Piano: Emanuele Torquati