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Salonen - Cello Concerto; Ravel - Sonata for Violin & Cello | Alpha ALPHA627

Salonen - Cello Concerto; Ravel - Sonata for Violin & Cello

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA627

Barcode: 3760014196270

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 4th March 2022

Contents

Artists

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dima Slobodeniouk

Works

Ravel, Maurice

Sonata for violin and cello

Salonen, Esa-Pekka

Cello Concerto

Artists

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dima Slobodeniouk

About

Nicolas Altstaedt presents here his version of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s monumental Cello Concerto, originally composed for Yo-Yo Ma, and given its Finnish premiere by the Franco-German cellist under the composer’s direction. In partnership with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, he reveals its full expressive dimension here: ‘The first movement opens with what, in my sketchbook, was called “Chaos to line”’, says Esa-Pekka Salonen. Chaos, a metaphorical comet, a rhythmic mantra with congas and bongos, a wild dance... Salonen goes on to say of the third movement: ‘I imagined the orchestra as some kind of gigantic lung, expanding and contracting first slowly, but accelerating to a point of mild hyperventilation which leads back to the dance-like material’. The coupling is the famous ‘Duo Ravel’ (to give it the original title used at its premiere), which Nicolas Altstaedt and Pekka Kuusisto have been performing and refining ever since 2010, and which it was high time to record.

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