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Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Métamorphoses, Raphaël Feye – Weinberg (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:24 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Few composers can be said to be ‘citizens of nowhere’ and yet, exactly this moniker is appropriate for Mieczyslaw Weinberg. He was born and raised in Poland to a Jewish family, but for complex reasons spent the majority of his life in Soviet Russia. He had a prolific output (over 150 opus-numbered works, and more besides), but never reached international fame during his lifetime. Since his death in 1996, that has all changed. His powerful music speaks to generations, made all the more powerful by his emotive biography.
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Pieter Wispelwey, Sinfonietta Cracovia – Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 / Britten Cello Suite No. 3 (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:51 minutes | 3,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Winner of the BBC Music Magazine 2009 Award for technical excellence, this disc presents music composed by Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, two striking personalities from recent 20th-century musical history, who were also united by an intimate friendship. They both also shared reciprocal friendship with the inspiring and energetic Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premier of both the three Suites for cello by Britten solo and the Second Cello Concerto in G by Shostakovich.
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Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti – Schubert & Brahms: The Complete Duos / Rondo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:07 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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The cellist Pieter Wispelwey and the pianist Paulo Giacometti have decided to record six albums comprising the complete works for duet of Brahms and Schubert. In other words, the pieces written for an instrument and piano. The instrument in question could be the cello, or the violin, the viola, etc. Because can a virtuoso cellist really resist the temptation to dip their toes into other repertoires than their own? After all, we know full well that the composers themselves wouldn’t hesitate to transcribe, or authorise a transcription, of their own work for other instruments. And so here is the fourth volume of this collection, which hinges on Brahms’s Sonate Op. 78, which was first written for violin in G major, here transcribed into D major by Paul Klengel in 1897; as well as the First Sonata, originally for clarinet Op. 120, by the very same Brahms. Of the latter work, we know that the composer himself transcribed it for the viola, and this transcription formed the basis for Pieter Wispelwey’s own re-reading – very close to the viola part, within which he has simply transposed certain uncomfortably high passages down an octave. By way of overture we have Schubert’s Rondo in B minor (1826), written for violin and piano, here brought down an octave (or two) for cello, although the change doesn’t make any difference at all to the harmonic perception.
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Pieter Wispelwey – In Memoriam II: The Scordatura Album (2023)
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This Scordatura Album is the second In Memoriam album in honour of my son Dorian. It features two illustrious masterpieces written for cello in alternative, darker tunings: the Bach Suite with the top string lowered by a whole tone and the Kodály Sonata with the two bottom strings lowered by a semitone. Both pieces are fierce, resilient and profound and although painted in dark colours, they comfort us with their show of sheer musical power and luminous inventiveness.
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Pieter Wispelwey – In Memoriam I (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:10:21 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Half a year before my sixtieth birthday my family and I suffered a massive, tragic blow, when my son Dorian died. While still shaken to my foundations, a way forward seems to me to be to allow music to play a constructive and healing role. So I have recorded Bach’s Fifth Suite and Kodaly’s Solosonata to form the Scordatura Album for a September In Memoriam II release. This first In Memoriam for my beloved Dorian, consists of a rerelease of the three greatest Schubert Violin-Piano pieces and the wonderful Trockne Blumen Vartiations, as Schubert had played a big role in his life as a singer and a music lover.”
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Pieter Wispelwey, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer – Antonin Dvorak – Cello Concerto, Symphonic Variations (2007)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:02:38 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: ISO SACD | © Channel Classics Records B.V. | Recorded: December 2006, Palace of Arts, Budapest
Dvorak’s career was a worldwide success. He wrote his cello concerto in New York, it was rehearsed in Prague and premiered in London. Always full of tender feelings for his home country he lived an international life. He avoided speaking German though when possible and would never accept a job in Vienna. His cello concerto would become hugely popular all over the world and has occupied a significant place in the gallery of 19th century masterpieces. It took him four months to write but that reflects a freshness, a rise and shine attitude rather than the neurotic speed of city life. No teutonic bombast (Berlin), no Mahlerian pathos (Vienna), but healthy abundance of energy. Dreams but no Freud, profundity but no Angst. The orchestra is large and powerful, but this most symphonic of cello concertos doesnt become a David and Goliath freak show. The tuttis can be seen as the background for a journey. The landscapes, by night or day, under moon or sunlight are sometimes awesome but never hostile and occasionally the hero revels in a heart-warming village party. There is also room for reflection and intimacy; the solo cello is beautifully supported both in song and prayer. (…) –Pieter Wispelwey
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Pieter Wispelwey & Paulo Giacometti – Schubert & Brahms: The Complete Duos: Opus 100 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:50 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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The summer of 1886 was one of the most prolific in the life of Johannes Brahms. The alpine grandeur of Lake Thun and Brahms’s buoyant holiday mood conjured up so many melodies that he declared he was “afraid to step on them”. In a few weeks’ time, Brahms produced two of his major chamber works, the Cello Sonata, op.99, and the Violin Sonata, op.100, that suits the cello delightfully. These chamber icons are aptly coupled to Schubert’s blissfully uplifting Sonata, D574. Cello virtuoso Pieter Wispelwey is at once playful and profound in these summer works, and his interpretation is, from now on, open to debate in The Interpretation Room.
Pieter Wispelwey and Paulo Giacometti will record the complete chamber duos by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms on 6 CDs.
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