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In many respects Alfred Schnittke seems to take Shostakovich's unique brand of introverted lyricism and his penchant for grotesque imagery to new levels of intensity. This link is palpably drawn... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th May 2006
Catalogue No: CDA67534
Label: Hyperion
Length: 78 minutes

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Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

Work length30:06

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Allegro non troppo – Largo

Track length13:24

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II. Allegro

Track length3:35

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III. Largo

Track length9:08

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:59

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Schnittke: Madrigal in memoriam Oleg Kagan for violin solo

Work length8:26

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Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Schnittke: Klingende Buchstaben for solo cello (1988)

Work length4:21

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Alban Gerhardt (cello)

Schnittke: Sonata for cello and piano No 1

Work length22:07

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Largo

Track length3:56

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II. Presto

Track length6:01

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III. Largo

Track length12:10

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Shostakovich: The clockwork doll (from Detskaya tetrad 'A Child’s Exercise Book', Op 69)

Work length0:53

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 1 (1949)

Work length0:44

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Drehorgel 'Hurdy-gurdy' (from Moskva, Cheremushki, Op 105)

Track length0:44

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Shostakovich: Drehorgel 'Hurdy-gurdy' (from Moskva, Cheremushki, Op 105)

Work length1:52

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Trauriges Lied 'Sad song' (from Two Songs to the spectacle 'Victorious Spring', Op 72b)

Track length1:52

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Shostakovich: Trauriges Lied 'Sad song' (from Two Songs to the spectacle 'Victorious Spring', Op 72b)

Work length1:22

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

I. Wiegenlied 'Lullaby'

Track length1:22

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Shostakovich: Frühlingswalzer 'Spring waltz' (from Michurin, Op 78)

Work length1:47

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Shostakovich: Nocturne (from 'The Gadfly', Op 97)

Work length3:06

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Shostakovich: Moderato in A minor for cello & piano

Work length2:13

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Shostakovich: Gigue (from 'Hamlet', Op 32)

Work length1:41

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Alban Gerhardt (cello), Steven Osborne (piano)

Transcription of supplementary number. Gigue

Track length1:41

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Hyperions record of the month for June is an intense and enthralling musical journey of powerful Russian twentieth-century music performed by the charismatic cellist, Alban Gerhardt and highly acclaimed pianist Steven Osborne. Shostakovichs Cello Sonata Op 40 received its premiere in December 1934, in a period of great personal turmoil. Its return to a much more conservative style did not fade his imagedue to the impact of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtenskas the Soviet Unions enfant terrible which had created a difficult situation against a furious Stalin and the regime. The impact of censorship on Shostakovichs musical progress resulted in works with deeply personal and powerful statements which can be heard on this disc. His Eleven pieces for cello and pianoeight of which are recorded hereare a collection of arrangements of Shostakovichs ballet and film compositions, the best known being the Nocturne from the film The Gadfly. Also on this disc is Alfred Schnittkes First Cello Sonata, in which he takes the basic major/minor third and the perfect cadence and subjects them to extreme magnification resulting in an exploration of harmony, atmosphere, drama and anguished searching.

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July 2006

In many respects Alfred Schnittke seems to take Shostakovich's unique brand of introverted lyricism and his penchant for grotesque imagery to new levels of intensity. This link is palpably drawn by Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne whose approach to the much-recorded Shostakovich is admirably fresh and innovative. Particularly daring is their emotionally numb and extremely slow reading of the Largo coda to the first movement... In this context, the slow outer movements of the Schnittke seem particularly withdrawn and disturbing, the frenzied activity of the central Presto offering little respite to an all-pervasive feeling of gloom and despair.

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