Tabea Zimmerman - Solo
A magnificent recital played with a beautiful tone and lively musical intelligence
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Composer or Director: (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Myrios
Magazine Review Date: 13/2009
Media Format: Hybrid SACD
Media Runtime: 64
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: MYR003
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Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(3) Suites |
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer
(Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer Tabea Zimmermann, Viola |
(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movement: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Tabea Zimmermann, Viola |
(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movement: No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Tabea Zimmermann, Viola |
Author: DuncanDruce
Her beautiful tone, constantly varied, and lively musical intelligence are, of course, ideal assets in Bach as well as Reger. Transposed up an octave, Bach’s cello-writing is equally apt for viola, and though the viola can’t match the dark sonority of the cello in the Prelude and Sarabande of the Second Suite, there are compensations. The G major Suite’s Prelude may lack the gravitas a cellist can bring to it, but Zimmermann imparts an airy quality that’s just as appealing. And her vivacious accounts of the concluding Gigues of both suites entirely banish the lugubrious impression the larger instrument can sometimes leave.
Zimmermann has an excellent appreciation of Baroque style, but her modern equipment can lead to the creation of general rather than particular effects – the spiccato bowing in BWV1008’s Corrente results in the loss of details of phrasing; a similar smoothing of detail comes as a result of the very quiet repeats in the corresponding movement of BWV1007. It’s a magnificent recital, however, with Zimmermann proving a true fairy godmother to the viola’s Cinderella image.
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