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Faces of classical music
2018-03-18 11:08:00
Bruno Philippe & Tanguy de Williencourt interpret Ludwig van Beethoven & Franz Schubert (Audio video)
It gives Tanguy de Williencourt and me great pleasure to present this programme devoted to Beethoven and Schubert, which moreover allows us to continue our exploration of the music of German-speaking composers.When we first broached the idea of making a recording, it seemed apt to us to include the cello transcription of the "Kreutzer" Sonata made by Czerny. An absolute masterpiece in its original scoring, this work is in my view equally successful in its alternative guise. Beyond enriching the cello repertoire with a "sixth" Beethoven sonata, the work is thrilling to perform, notwithstanding its considerable technical challenges.Granted, we could have chosen from among the five canonical sonatas for cello and piano; clearly these are works of genius in their own right, but the power of the "Kreutzer" Sonata captivated me to a much greater degree from the start. Upon discovering the Czerny transcription, I had the urgent desire and […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-03-10 11:04:00
Johannes Brahms & Robert Schumann: Works for cello and piano – Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt (Audio video)
Jacqueline du Pré was only 23 when she recorded her heady account of the Brahms cello sonatas. But this new recording trumps that, for Bruno Philippe was just 21 and his pianist, the sonorously named Tanguy de Williencourt, only a couple of years older. Both studied at the Paris Conservatoire and they offer playing of splendidly assured maturity and insight, the two artists finding the requisite serenity for the closing moments of the E minor Sonata's opening movement.From the off, Philippe's approach compels you to listen, to embark on the journey with him, even if the overly close recording catches every breath and every bow sound. True, there are times when I wanted a bit more freedom: in the First Sonata's inner movement and the Adagio affettuoso of the Second, Isserlis and Fournier (in his old Decca recording with Backhaus) find more flexibility and a greater degree of reactivity with […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-03-03 15:56:00
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor – Bruno Philippe, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Stéphane Denève (HD 1080p)
Accompanied by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the French conductor Stéphane Denève (b. 1971), the award-winning French cellist Bruno Philippe performs Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104. The concert was recorded at Palais Des Beaux-arts, Henry Le Boeuf Hall, on June 2, 2017.✻Opus 104 was Dvořák's second and final attempt at writing a cello concerto. The first, a 50-minute work in A major, was written very early in his career (1865), when his style was still markedly derived from those of his models – of which Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert are most notable. He had also recently encountered the music of Richard Wagner, which perhaps helps to explain the grand scale of the work. The resulting effort was not very satisfactory to the composer, and Dvořák never bothered to orchestrate it; he would not attempt to write another (the work at hand) until thirty […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-02-27 15:21:00
Francis Poulenc: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano – Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt (HD 1080p)
The award-winning French cellist Bruno Philippe and the the French pianist, accomplished soloist and chamber musician Tanguy de Williencourt, perform Francis Poulenc's Sonata for cello and piano, FP 143. The concert was recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt, on September 29, 2017.✻Woodwind pieces dominate Francis Poulenc's chamber music oeuvre, but the Cello Sonata, like the somewhat earlier Violin Sonata, is a substantial work finding the composer at the height of his powers, and his tongue planted less firmly in his cheek.Despite a rather rude initial outburst from the piano, the sonata-form first movement, Allegro (tempo di marcia), leavens its fragmentary fanfare-like motifs with lyrical, good-humored material for the cello. One important theme is especially broad, romantic, and bittersweet, although much of the development section is given over to playful treatments of the melodies, with staccato piano accompaniment to cello pizzicato.The slow second movement, Cavatine, is one of Poulenc's most tenderly songful […]
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