Ophélie Gaillard - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote & other Cello Works

Klasyczna Muzyka Kameralna
premiera polska: 2018-03-30
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Francja
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor’s info:
From Romance to Romancero, the cellist Ophélie Gaillard invites to an imaginary journey, both heroic and delicate, in the world of Richard Strauss, the post-Romantic composer par excellence.
Vibrant heart of the disc, the symphonic poem Don Quixote transforms the instruments into characters who play the epic adventures of Cervantes’ hero. Thus, Don Quixote, played by the cello, talks with Sancho Panza (the viola) or Dulcinea (the violin) in a luxuriant orchestral fresco, tender and sensual, where Strauss’ genius for melody unfolds with a touch of humour.
His exquisite expressiveness shines through the most intimate pieces that complete this program. Ophélie Gaillard’s warm lyricism agrees with the piano in the Romance and the Sonata in F major, or with the voice in the smooth accents of Morgen. As an ideal companion, the cellist's enchanting bow leads to an irresistible music.

BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, * * * *
Masmondet and his Czech players turn a searchlight on Strauss’s surging textural interplay, uncovering passing details that often pass by unacknowledged. The Czech National may not possess the virtuoso exuberance of the Chicago symphony or berlin Philharmonic in full cry, but that is rather to miss the point, as this reading is as much about Cervantes’s satirical send-up of fashionable tales of heroic knights in shining armour as it is Strauss’s luxuriant soundscapes.

muzycy:
Ophélie Gaillard (cello), Alexandra Conunova (violin) & Dov Scheindlin (viola), Vassilis Varvaresos (piano)

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