Daniel Muller-Schott - Concerto for Cello & Orchestra in A minor Op 129 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This previously unreleased live recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing the Schumann Cello Concerto is her first public performance of the work, given in the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 1962 with Jean Martinon conducting the BBCSO. She had worked intensively on the concerto with Paul Tortelier in Paris prior to this concert. When Du Pré studied the Schumann with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1966, he exclaimed, 'This is the most perfect Schumann I have ever heard'. The 1962 live performance of the Dvorák Cello Concerto by Rostropovich has also never before been released. He is partnered by Carlo Maria Giulini, who went on to to make a studio recording of the same concerto with him in 1977. The Times critic described this Edinburgh Festival performance as an 'exciting' and 'emotionally supercharged interpretation' with Giulini's reading 'full of finely wrought points of detail'. The attractive bonus features Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya in the Ária from Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras. Album Tracks 1. I. Nicht Zu Schnell - Jacqueline Du PRÉ/BBC Symphony Orchestra 2. II. Langsam - Etwas Lebhafter - Tempo I - Schneller - Jacqueline Du PRÉ/BBC Symphony Orchestra 3. III. Sehr Lebhaft - Kadenz - Schneller - Jacqueline Du PRÉ/BBC Symphony Orchestra 4. I. Allegro - Mstislav Rostropovich/Philharmonia Orchestra 5. II. Adagio, Ma Non Troppo - Mstislav Rostropovich/Philharmonia Orchestra 6. III. Finale Allegro Moderato - Andante - Allegro Vivo - Mstislav Rostropovich/Philharmonia Orchestra 7. Aria - Various Performers

Album Tracks 1. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Adagio - Moderato 2. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Lento - Allegro Molto 3. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Adagio 4. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, Ma Non Troppo 5. Cello Concerto 1. Moderato 6. Cello Concerto 2. Allegro - Con Moto 7. Cello Concerto 3. Lento - Con Moto 8. Cello Concerto Rapsodicamente (1. Kadenz) 9. Cello Concerto Interlude. Allegro Molto 10. Cello Concerto Rapsodicamente (2. Kadenz)

Following up his recording of Britten's Cello Suites, Daniel Meller-Schott is now exploring other areas of the repertory opened up by the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich. The Symphony for Cello and Orchestra was his first major work after the Cello Sonata of 1961. Album Tracks 1. Andante 2. Allegro Giusto 3. Andante Con Moto 4. Allegro Maestoso 5. Presto Inquieto 6. Adagio 7. Passacaglia