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[Wallfisch's] characteristically assured and deeply felt advocacy is matched by a lively and committed response from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales...The disc's substantial centrepiece comprises... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…

Release Date: 10th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: SRCD344
Label: Lyrita
Length: 70 minutes

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Joubert: Cello Concerto, Op. 171

Work length23:01

$6.00

$7.70

Raphael Wallfisch
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton

I. Poco lento - Poco più mosso

Track length11:36

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$3.85

II. Lento - Allegro vivace

Track length11:25

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$3.85

Simpson, R: Cello Concerto

Work length47:32

$11.00

$14.25

Raphael Wallfisch
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton

Introduction

Track length1:28

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$1.30

Vars. 1-4

Track length6:19

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Vars. 5-8

Track length7:23

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$2.60

Vars. 9-11

Track length13:27

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$3.85

I. Allegro furioso e sardonicamente

Track length5:06

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$1.30

II. Poco lento

Track length4:51

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$1.30

III. Allegro giusto - Andante tranquillo

Track length8:58

$2.00

$2.60

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Among the most versatile of contemporary performers, cellist Raphael Wallfisch is especially celebrated as a passionate advocate of British music.

Concertos by Elgar, Finzi and Walton lie at the heart of his repertoire, which also includes concertante works by Arnold, Bax, Bliss, Havergal Brian, Britten, Alan Bush, Geoffrey Bush, William Busch, Delius, Dyson, Foulds, Holbrooke, Ireland, Maw, Moeran, Andrjez Panufnik, Rawsthorne, Rubbra, Lionel Sainsbury and Hugh Wood. He has expanded this genre by commissioning and premiering an impressive and eclectic array of new pieces by, among others, Richard Rodney Bennett, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Robert Saxton, Giles Swayne, John Tavener and Adrian Williams. All three items presented on this disc were written especially for Wallfisch.

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March 2015

[Wallfisch's] characteristically assured and deeply felt advocacy is matched by a lively and committed response from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales...The disc's substantial centrepiece comprises Robert Simpson's exceptionally powerful 1991 concerto...the sublimely organic, typically questing and effortlessly inevitable way that Simpson handles his nourishing material makes for riveting listening.

[Wallfisch] performs these pieces with the utmost musicianship.

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