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Supported by a warmly ambient recording, the playing here is… sharply characterised and powerfully projected… — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: NI5831
Label: Nimbus
Length: 63 minutes

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Rodion Schedrin: The Ancient Melodies of Russian Folk-Songs

Work length17:52

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Raphael Wallfisch, Rodion Shchedrin

I. Lento in poco rubato

Track length3:14

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II. Allegro, ma non troppo

Track length2:10

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III. Maestoso

Track length3:57

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IV. Adagietto

Track length4:26

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V. Moderato

Track length4:05

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Rodion Schedrin: Sonata for Cello and Piano

Work length34:23

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Raphael Wallfisch, Rodion Shchedrin

I. Allegretto

Track length13:35

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II. Moderato

Track length9:20

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III. Sostenuto assai

Track length11:28

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Rodion Schedrin: In the Style of Albéniz

Work length4:40

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Raphael Wallfisch, Rodion Shchedrin

Rodion Schedrin: Nicht nur liebe: Quadrille

Work length6:53

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Raphael Wallfisch, Rodion Shchedrin

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The Ancient Melodies of Russian Folk-songs (2007) is a setting for cello and piano of five melodies from Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous anthology of 100 Russian Folk Songs published in 1877. The Ancient Melodies of Russian Folk-songs is dedicated to Raphael Wallfisch, who premiered the cycle on 24 May 2007 in London with the composer at the piano and this is the premiere recording of this work.

Shchedrin wrote his Sonata for cello and piano in 1996 for his great friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who had already been the dedicatee of his Cello Concerto ‘Sotto Voce’ of 1994 and would later have the Parabola Concertante for cello, strings and timpani (2001 – recorded on Nimbus NI5816) written for him. There are three movements which in their character and disposition are reminiscent of the late string works of Shostakovich.

In the Style of Albeniz is a short early piece written in 1952 when he was twenty. One of Shchedrin’s bestknown short pieces, it was originally composed for piano solo and incorporated in his set of 10 Piano Pieces which are widely used as teaching material.

The Quadrille, one of its best-known numbers, was arranged for cello and piano by Grigory Singer. Opening with an ardent, romantic cello solo, the piece opens up into a virtuosically- presented parade of folklike tunes over repeated ostinato rhythms which both seem to satirize Russian sentimentality and display how much Shchedrin owed to the music of Stravinsky in his early period.

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January 2009

Supported by a warmly ambient recording, the playing here is… sharply characterised and powerfully projected…

January 2009

Wallfisch is… an ardent exponent of an idiom not unlike that of late Shostakovich but also reflecting Shchedrin's immersion in the world of Bach, his fascination with bell-like sonorities and his abiding fondness for the grotesque.

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