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Raphael Wallfisch, City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Kraemer - Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos, Vol. 1-4 (1995) 4CD

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Raphael Wallfisch, City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Kraemer - Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos, Vol. 1-4 (1995) 4CD

Antonio Vivaldi - Cello Concerti, Volume 1-4 (1995) 4CDs
Raphael Wallfisch, cello; City of London Sinfonia; Nicholas Kraemer, director & harpsichord

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.1 Gb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550907-8.550910 | Time: 03:57:58

Naxos intend to record Vivaldi’s entire orchestral corpus, and Raphael Wallfisch’s integral four-disc survey of the 27 cello concertos inaugurates this visionary, though plainly Herculean undertaking. Soloist and orchestra employ modern instruments; director Nicholas Kraemer contends that authentic protocols can be ably met by contemporary ensembles and, in articulation, style and ornamentation, these pristine, engaging readings have little to fear from period practitioners. Wallfisch’s pointed, erudite and spirited playing is supported with enlightened restraint by the CLS, directed from either harpsichord or chamber organ by Kraemer, whose sensitive continuo team merits high praise throughout. Without exception, these Concertos adopt an orthodox fast-slow-fast three-movement format. Wallfisch, dutifully observant in matters of textual fidelity, plays outer movements with verve, energy and lucidity, such that high-register passagework, an omnipresent feature of these works, is enunciated with the pin-sharp focus of Canaletto’s images of 18th-century Venice, which adorn the covers of these issues.

Raphael Wallfisch, Steuart Bedford - Britten: Symphonie for Cello & Orchestra, Death in Venice (suite) (2004)

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Raphael Wallfisch, Steuart Bedford - Britten: Symphonie for Cello & Orchestra, Death in Venice (suite) (2004)

Raphael Wallfisch, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford - Britten: Symphonie for Cello & Orchestra, Death in Venice (suite) (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 251 MB | 01:01:02
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos

For admirers of Steuart Bedford's recordings of the music of Benjamin Britten, this re-release of his 1984 recordings of the Symphony for cello and orchestra with his arrangement of a concert suite from Death in Venice will be gratefully received. Bedford had been anointed by Peter Pears, Britten's musical executor, as a Britten interpreter and even allowed to create the concert suite. Bedford's conducting is surely more assured than Britten's in general, but his interpretations were clearly steeped in Britten's interpretations.

Raphael Wallfisch & London Mozart Players - Romberg: Cello Works (2022)

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Raphael Wallfisch & London Mozart Players - Romberg: Cello Works (2022)

Raphael Wallfisch & London Mozart Players - Romberg: Cello Works (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 330 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:29
Classical | Label: CPO

It is often forgotten that Bernhard Romberg not only was a virtuoso but also as a composer was once numbered among the most important representatives of his generation. Statements to this effect are easy enough to find: Romberg was "one of the leading violoncello players on earth, also as a composer and an expert in the art of music" (Hamburg, 1801); he was regarded as "one of the most outstanding composers and as the most consummate of all cellists now living" (Leipzig, 1807).

Raphael Wallfisch - Tchaikovsky: Music for Cello & Orchestra (1983)

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Raphael Wallfisch - Tchaikovsky: Music for Cello & Orchestra (1983)

Raphael Wallfisch - Tchaikovsky: Music for Cello & Orchestra (1983)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 47:38 | 207 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: 8347

This disc, very well recorded and issued originally in 1983, brings together all of the works for solo cello written by Tchaikovsky and as Tchaikovsky originally intended. They are all played with assurance and sensitivity by Wallfisch. Undoubtedly the most important work here is the Rococo Variations. This has suffered for most of its existence from the interference from its dedicatee, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen who made numerous alterations to the score including the deletion of the 8th variation and re-ordering the rest. He also added repeat marks and changed various dynamics.

Raphael Wallfisch - Coke: Cello Sonatas (2020)

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Raphael Wallfisch - Coke: Cello Sonatas (2020)

Raphael Wallfisch - Coke: Cello Sonatas (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | Artwork: d.booklet, front cover | 257 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | 1:12:12 | 177 mb
Classical | Label: Lyrita

These sonatas display an ambiguous blend of romantic lyricism and grave chromaticism, with cello and piano treated as equal partners with solo passages for the pianist punctuating the musical discourse. Coke exploits extremes of register in both instruments: high spare unison passages in the piano, at times seeming to prefigure late Shostakovich, and rich, dark sonorities in the cello. The range demanded of the cellist is especially wide in all three cello sonatas, with some high-lying passages notated at extreme dynamics…