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Label Signum Classics |
UPC 0635212033623 |
Catalogue number SIGCD 336 |
Release date 01 September 2013 |
Fascinerende uitvoeringen van Brittens Solo Suites
Ter ere van Benjamin Brittens honderdjarig jubileum in 2013 werd er een collectie uitgebracht van de drie Suites voor Solo Cello, uitgevoerd door de Britse stercellist James Walton. De werken zijn opgenomen in de Britten Studio in Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh en opgedragen aan Mstislav Rostropovich. De passionele derde suite in het bijzonder is geïnspireerd door Rostropovich’ rijke en romantische uitvoeringen van Bachs onbegeleide suites.
Jamie Walton is een interpreet die zich veel bezighoudt met de werken die hij uitvoert en opneemt. Eerder in 2013 bracht hij een nieuwe opname van cello concerto’s van Schumann en Dvorak uit samen met het Filharmonisch Orkest onder leiding van Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with the legendary cellist Rostropovich led to a Cello sonata, three Suites for cello solo and a Symphony for Cello and orchestra in the 1960s.
Britten never became Master of the Queen's Music, yet he surely had feeling for public sentiments. For example, as a pacifist, he taught his people about world peace through his War Requiem from 1962. Britten was an excellent interpreter of his own work, just like Bartók and Stravinsky. Many of his recordings have been matched, but never exceeded.