Elgar & Myaskovsky - Cello Concertos - Signum: SIGCD116 - CD or download

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One of the finest recordings of the Elgar. Jamie Walton has a formidable technique; his playing in the scherzo and the finale is beyond compare; and he captures the autumnal melancholy without... — Sunday Telegraph, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Feb 2008
Catalogue No: SIGCD116
Label: Signum
Length: 54 minutes

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Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Work length27:53

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Jamie Walton
Philharmonia Orchestra
Alexander Briger

Adagio

Track length7:35

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Lento

Track length4:23

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Adagio

Track length4:44

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Allegro

Track length11:11

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Miaskovsky: Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 66

Work length26:58

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Jamie Walton
Philharmonia Orchestra
Alexander Briger

Lento

Track length10:40

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Allegro Vivace

Track length16:18

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Although conceived by utterly divergent characters in lands and times that engender few similarities these days, the cello concertos by Elgar and Myaskovsky make a fascinating coupling. Both men were in their early sixties when writing what was their only concertante work for the instrument, and the prevailing mood of both concertos is one of aristocratic wistfulness married to a mastery of form and rhetoric.

Jamie Walton studied at Wells Cathedral School and the RNCM with Margaret Moncrieff before taking private tuition with William Pleeth who wrote of Jamie: "He is a cellist of outstanding performance ability. Combining warmth of tone with a technical command that reaches dazzling proportions, he leaves little doubt as the success that lies ahead of him.”

"I really cannot praise this performance too highly. Walton cannot be beaten. I shall treasure this recording - literally: I shall hoard it against a musically rainy day: I shall play it from time to time, to restore my faith in the work If I ever again have the misfortune to hear too many inadequate performances. It will, I am sure, do the job every time." The Elgar Society Journal

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One of the finest recordings of the Elgar. Jamie Walton has a formidable technique; his playing in the scherzo and the finale is beyond compare; and he captures the autumnal melancholy without loss of vitality. His pianissimos in the finale coda are a wonder. He has like-minded collaborators in
the Philharmonia and Alexander Briger, who also support him in Myaskovsky's sombre concerto of 1945.

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