Elgar Schiff Salvage - Cello Concerto Falstaff Romance for Basson (16 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Elgar, Schiff, Salvage
Cello Concerto / Falstaff / Romance for Basson
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 1]
2. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 2]
3. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 3]
4. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 4]
5. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 5]
6. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 6]
7. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 7]
8. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 8]
9. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 9]
10. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68: [Part 10]
11. Romance, for bassoon & orchestra (also arr. for cello & piano), Op. 62
12. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: 1. Adagio - moderato
13. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: 2. Lento - Allegro molto
14. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: 3. Adagio
15. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: 4. Allegro, ma non troppo
16. Smoking Cantata, musical joke for soloist & orchestra

CD Details

All Artists: Elgar, Schiff, Salvage, Shore, Elder
Title: Cello Concerto / Falstaff / Romance for Basson
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Asv Living Era
Release Date: 4/27/2004
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Instruments, Reeds & Winds, Strings, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 743625750522

CD Reviews

A very different and rewarding Elgar concerto

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 02/17/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Here the German Heinrich Schiff is one of the few cellists to erase the memory of Jacqueline Du Pre in this work. He does it by not competing with her deeply soulful, big-boned tone; instead Schiff often soudns spiky and edgy, with fantastically fast skittering notes in the second movement. He finds a neurotic intensity in the Edwardian swell of the third movement. The finale is very alert and alive inside.

Schiff's avoidance of lushness helps this work, which so often sounds dated and rhetorical. He reveals what a masterpiece it is for modern ears. Mark Elder's accompaniment follows the cellist's strong expressive gestures, and the sonics are spectacular, which seems to be the norm for Halle recordings nowadays. The "filler" is actually longer than the concerto: the overlong tone poem, Falstaff, much beloved by Elgarians."