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Christian Poltera Plays Schoeck | BIS BISCD1597

Christian Poltera Plays Schoeck

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1597

Barcode: 7318590015971

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Christian Poltéra (cello)
Julius Drake (piano)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Tuomas Ollila

Works

Schoeck, Othmar

Cello Sonata
Concerto for cello and string orchestra, op.61
Song transcriptions (6) for cello and piano

Artists

Christian Poltéra (cello)
Julius Drake (piano)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Tuomas Ollila

About

His great talent has earned the young cellist Christian Poltéra a place in no less than three schemes designed to raise the profiles of up-and-coming musicians: the BBC New Generation Artist scheme, the Borletti-Buitoni Award and the ECHO Rising Star programme. This has given him the opportunity of performing in concerts all over Europe, and now – in a three-disc series on BIS – he will be reaching even wider audiences. 
 
On these three discs, Poltéra, a native of Switzerland, has chosen to perform cello works by three Swiss composers, namely Schoeck, Honegger and Frank Martin. Each disc will consist of a concerto coupled with various chamber works, in which Poltéra is joined by illustrious musicians such as Christian Tetzlaff and Kathryn Stott. In each case the orchestral scores are entrusted to the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tuomas Ollila.
 
The concerto which opens the programme betrays Schoeck’s preoccupation with the human voice: while the cello’s bold opening statement in the first movement is demonstrably instrumental in conception, the solo instrument is soon ‘singing’ long melodic lines. 
 
Some ten years after completing the concerto, the composer revisited the same territory in a sonata which was to become his – uncompleted – final work. The Sonata and the Concerto are close stylistically, and echoes of the concerto can be found in the later work – the coda of the sonata’s first movement, for example, quotes almost directly from the first movement of the concerto.

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