Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orfeo
Release: 2019
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Zoltan Kodály:
Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8
01. I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato
02. II. Adagio con grand espressione
03. III. Allegro molto vivace
Sergei Prokofiev:
04. Sonata for Solo Cello in C minor, Op. 134 (completed Blok)
Paul Hindemith:
Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 25 No. 3
05. I. Lebhaft, sehr markiert
06. II. Mäßig schnell, gemächlich
07. III. Langsam
08. IV. Lebhafte Viertel
09. V. Mäßig schnell
Hans Werner Henze:
Serenade for Cello
10. I. Adagio rubato
11. II. Poco allegretto
12. III. Pastorale
13. IV. Andante con moto, rubato
14. V. Vivace
15. VI. Tango
16. VII. Allegro marciale
17. VIII. Allegretto
18. IX. Menuett
Daniel Müller-Schott:
19. Cadenza
George Crumb:
Cello Sonata
20. I. Fantasia
21. II. Tema pastorale con variazioni
22. III. Toccata
Pablo Casals:
23. El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the birds)
After J. S. Bach’s solo cello suites in the early 18th century, the genre experienced a fallow period until Zoltán Kodály set the pace with a monumental sonata for solo cello in 1915. It inspired a variety of similar works, but Kodaly’s 30-minute sonata still stands ‘like Mount Everest’, to quote Daniel Müller-Schott, the soloist on this recording. His programme also includes music by Prokofiev, Hindemith, Henze, Crumb and Casals, and features a work of his own for the first time: Cadenza continues the tradition of compositions that other cellists have always added to their recital programmes. “Here, you can recognise influences of the solo works that have influenced me over the years. In Cadenza, the contrasting elements of the world of my instrument appear in the closest space – the cello in pure lyricism, just as sequences catapulting themselves into the highest registers in rhythmical savagery and immediately concluding the movement after a final culmination.”