Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, etc.

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Pieter Wispelwey… he does bring exceptional qualities to bear in a reading that has a profound sense of drama. …coupled with a splendid performance of the Symphonic Variations, this issue is... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: CCSSA25807
Label: Channel
Length: 62 minutes

Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Work length40:28

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Pieter Wispelwey, Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

I. Allegro

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II. Adagio ma non troppo

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III. Finale - Allegro moderato

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Dvořák: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78

Work length22:12

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

Thema

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Variation 1

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Variation 2

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Variation 3

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Variation 4

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Variation 5

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Variation 6

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Variation 7

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Variation 8

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Variation 9

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Variation 10

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Variation 11

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Variation 12

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Variation 13

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Variation 14

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Variation 15

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Variation 16

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Variation 17

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Variation 18

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Variation 19

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Variation 20

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Variation 21

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Variation 22

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Variation 23

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Variation 24

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Variation 25

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Varation 26

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Variation 27

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Finale

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November 2007

Pieter Wispelwey… he does bring exceptional qualities to bear in a reading that has a profound sense of drama. …coupled with a splendid performance of the Symphonic Variations, this issue is a winner from many points of view.

2010

Here we have an outstanding version of Dvorák's Cello Concerto, one to rival any version in the catalogue and imaginatively coupled with the much earlier Symphonic Variations.
Pieter Wispelwey crowns his previous releases in this electrifying live recording, brilliantly accompanied by the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer.
It includes applause at the end of each performance, suggesting there is far less editing here than in many other live recordings. That ties in with the high-voltage performances, well recorded in atmospheric and finely detailed sound, with the soloist well balanced in the concerto.
Wispelwey's playing is marked by crisp attack and exceptionally clean articulation, and though he allows an easing for the transition into the great second-subject melody, as well as in the mysterious G sharp minor reference to it in the central development section, he keeps romantic freedom well in check.
The Wispelwey first movement climax is triumphant with the orchestra weighty in tuttis, while the slow movement finds the soloist flexible, with magical shading of pianissimi leading to the hushed close. The finale is crisp and clean, with some wonderfully ripe-sounding horns suggesting Viennese influence. The hushed epilogue is refined, leading to a powerful final cadence.
In the Symphonic Variations Fischer holds the structure cleanly together, crisply defining each of the 27 brief variations and the fugal finale. One marvels anew at Dvorák's inventive elaborations on a simple theme, on a par with the SlavonicDances. An outstanding disc.

An outstanding cellist and a really wonderful musician

Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, etc.

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