Transitions: Cello Concertos by Nikolai Kapustin & Alfred Schnittke

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Kapustin’s joyful, American swing was as defiant an expression of individuality as Schnittke’s coruscating late Romanticism...Leaving aside moments of cliché, the intimate interplay between rhythm... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 7th Aug 2020
Catalogue No: C5362
Label: Capriccio
Length: 69 minutes

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Kapustin: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 85

Work length24:45

$6.00

$7.75

Eckart Runge (cello)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Frank Strobel

I. Allegro

Track length10:31

$3.00

$3.85

II. Largo con moto

Track length6:41

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro

Track length7:33

$2.00

$2.60

Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1

Work length45:04

$11.00

$14.15

Eckart Runge (cello)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Frank Strobel

I. Pesante - Moderato

Track length16:42

$4.00

$5.15

II. Largo

Track length11:32

$3.00

$3.85

III. Allegro vivace

Track length4:09

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Largo

Track length12:41

$3.00

$3.85

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The jazz-classical-modern fusion of Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) has recently become an exciting element of classical concert programmes. When the cellist Eckart Runge visited Kasputin in Moscow ten years ago, the composer entrusted him with the score of his Cello Concerto No. 1 op. 85, which, unlike his second, had neither been performed nor recorded. The work's energy uniquely combines colourful symphonic music with the groovy sound of the big band tradition, the virtuosity of a Charlie Parker with the chamber music intimacy of a Miles Davis, producing a vibrantly new musical language. With his fascinating, poly-stylistic sound world that he made his own, Alfred Schnittke is recognised as a 20th-century composer who is now permanently established in the repertoire, some two decades after his death. The Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 was commissioned by the City of Munich for the inauguration of the Gasteig Cultural Centre in 1985/86.

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December 2020

Kapustin’s joyful, American swing was as defiant an expression of individuality as Schnittke’s coruscating late Romanticism...Leaving aside moments of cliché, the intimate interplay between rhythm section, brass and cellist has a crackling spontaneity...It’s an ideal vehicle for Runge, a regular jazz improviser...From light to dark, Schnittke’s almost contemporaneous concerto (1986) opens up a vast sonic theatre.

October 2020

[Runge’s] playing, though, is exemplary, as befits the cellist of the Artemis Quartet: technically polished and emotionally committed to both Kapustin’s high jinks and Schnittke’s polystylistic extremes.

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