Barber Cello Concerto. Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.
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Composer or Director: Samuel Barber, Dmitri Shostakovich
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 12/1983
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABTD1085

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Cello and Orchestra |
Samuel Barber, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Geoffrey Simon, Conductor Raphael Wallfisch, Cello Samuel Barber, Composer |
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer English Chamber Orchestra Geoffrey Simon, Conductor Raphael Wallfisch, Cello |
Composer or Director: Samuel Barber, Dmitri Shostakovich
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 12/1983
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABRD1085

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra |
Samuel Barber, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Geoffrey Simon, Conductor Raphael Wallfisch, Cello Samuel Barber, Composer |
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer English Chamber Orchestra Geoffrey Simon, Conductor Raphael Wallfisch, Cello |
Author:
In any case, Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto is a less apt coupling. It dates from the end of the Second World Ward and the First performance was given in April 1946 by Raya Garbousova with the Boston Symphony under Koussevitsky. Barber has often been lucky in his advocates, and is again here. This is apparently the only recording available here since the initial one made in the early 1950s by Zara Nelsova and the composer himself (Decca mono LX3048, 6/51—nla). Raphael Wallfisch, besides having the necessary high accomplishment, immediately establishes a sense of presence.
Both factors are well to the fore in the long cadenza which forms the third of the Shostakovich work's four movements. The ECO performs both scores with impressive zest under Geoffrey Simon, and Shostakovich's slow movement, a
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