Special offer. Grieg & Grainger: Cello works
Andreas Brantelid (cello) & Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Lars Bjornkjaer (violin)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
Brantelid's feverish energy, tonal and textural range add something new. The Andante has a glistening innocence, while the sense of rough, spontaneous dance in the finale pulls the music closer...
Special offer. Grieg & Grainger: Cello works
Andreas Brantelid (cello) & Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Lars Bjornkjaer (violin)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
Brantelid's feverish energy, tonal and textural range add something new. The Andante has a glistening innocence, while the sense of rough, spontaneous dance in the finale pulls the music closer...
About
After a meeting in 1906 in London, Grainger visited Grieg in Bergen the following year, only two months before the older composer passed away. The Danish-Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid and his Norwegian chamber music partner Christian Ihle Hadland now turn to a programme of cello works by the two composers, opening with Grieg’s celebrated Cello Sonata. They also include less well-known pieces, however, such as the composer’s arrangement of the Allegretto from his third violin sonata, and an Andante con moto intended as part of a never completed piano trio, in which they are joined by the violinist Lars Bjørnkjær. Discovered after Grieg’s death, the piece would have to wait more than 70 years before receiving its first performance.
Contents and tracklist
- Lars Bjørnkjær, Andreas Brantelid, Christian Ihle Hadland
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2015Editor's Choice
Awards Issue 2015
Brantelid's feverish energy, tonal and textural range add something new. The Andante has a glistening innocence, while the sense of rough, spontaneous dance in the finale pulls the music closer to its roots. That feisty quality ignites the Scandinavian Suite of [Grainger]...Nielsen's poignant Op. 21 song 'Just bow your head, oh flower' is an inspired encore. Blink and you could be sitting in a sunny wooden parlour in Funen, Denmark.
May 2015
Brantelid is certainly virtuoso - try the cadenza-like passages and, indeed, the Allegro finale of the Sonata in general. He also finds a lovely colour for his instrument as it imitates the Halling-style fiddle leading the dance. But he never swamps the essential melodic simplicity of the music with misleadingly compensatory colour. Hugely recommened.
May 2017
Very fine performances of splendid music.
