Grieg / Pietsch / Eisinger - Violin Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For his fourth CD recording on SWR, pianist Michael Korstick turns his focus and attention toward Claude Debussy and his journey toward artistic maturity, from the French composer's earliest piano pieces, the Deux Arabesques, the Mazurka, ca. 1890/91, and perhaps most conspicuously the Suite Bergamasque (1890, rev. 1905), it's third movement being the famous InchClair de LuneInch, to the birth of what become known as musical InchimpressionismInch, most notably foreshadowed with the Estampes of 1903. Numerous award winning CDs have won Michael Korstick a reputation as one of Germany's leading pianists. Album Tracks 1. Pagodes 2. La Soirée Dans Grenade 3. Jardins Sous la Pluie 4. Prelude 5. Menuet 6. Clair de Lune 7. Passepied 8. Prelude 9. Sarabande 10. Toccata 11. Première Arabesque 12. Deuxième Arabesque 13. Reverie 14. Danse Bohémienne 15. Mazurka 16. Valse Romantique 17. Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum 18. Jimbo's Lullaby 19. Serenade for the Doll 20. The Snow Is Dancing 21. The Little Shepherd 22. Golliwogg's Cakewalk

Album Tracks 1. Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail KV384, Act 1. Arie 'Konstanze, Dich Wiederzusehen' - Fritz Wunderlich 2. Le Nozze Di Figaro KV492, Act 2. Arie 'Porgi, Amor' - Sena Jurinac 3. Le Nozze Di Figaro KV492, Act 2. Canzone 'Voi Che Sapete' - Evelyn Lear 4. Le Nozze Di Figaro KV492, Act 2. Arie 'Venite, Inginocchiatevi' - Graziella Sciutti 5. Le Nozze Di Figaro KV492, Act 4. Arie 'Tutto E Disposto-Aprite Un Po Quegli Occhi' - Walter Berry 6. Don Giovanni KV527, Act 1. Duett 'Alfin Siam Liberti-La CI Darem' - Mirella Freni/Nicolai Ghiaurov 7. Cosi Fan Tutte KV588, Act 1. Arie 'Come Scoglio' - Anneliese Rothenberger 8. Cosi Fan Tutte KV588, Act 1. Duett 'A Guarda Sorella' - Gundula Janowitz/Brigitte Fassbaender 9. Idomeneo KV366. Act 3. Rezitativ and Duett 'Principessa-Spiegarti Non Poss' Io' - Helen Donath/Peter Schreier 10. Idomeneo KV366. Act 1. Arie 'Estinto E Idomeneo-Tutto Nel Cor' - Julia Varady 11. Don Giovanni KV527, Act 1. Arie 'Dalla Sua Pace' - Peter Schreier 12. Don Giovanni KV527, Act 1. Arie 'Batti, Batti, O Bel Masetto' - Edith Mathis 13. Die Zauberflote KV620, Act 1. Arie 'O Zittre Nicht, Mein Lieber Sohn' - Edita Gruberova 14. Die Zauberflote KV620, Act 1. Duett 'Bei Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen' - Ileana Cotrubas/Christian Boesch 15. Die Zauberflote KV620, Act 2. Terzett 'Soll Ich Dich Teurer Nicht Mehr Seh'n' - Ileana Cotrubas/Eric Tappy/Martti Talvela 16. Cosi Fan Tutte KV588, Act 2. Finale 'Dove Son?' - Margaret Marshall/Agnes Baltsa/Kathleen Battle/Francisco Araiza/James Morris/Jose Van Dam

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote two concertos for the cello, and both are dedicated to the most eminent Soviet cellist of his time Mstislav Rostropovich. That was due to not only the long friendship between the composer and the virtuoso, but also Rostropovich's courageousness in music as well as politics. When Shostakovich was expelled from all his posts in 1948, Rostropovich declared his solidarity with him, risking his own career Shostakovich always remembered this act of friendship. In 1959 he wrote his first cello concerto, whose musical language is almost classical but which also reveals an enormous panorama of moods, gestures and InchstoriesInch for InchSlavaInch, as Rostropovich was known amongst his friends and admirers. The scoring is transparent, featuring a single French horn as a counterpart to the solo instrument. The form of the piece is also remarkable the third movement is an enormous cadenza, directed inwards rather than outwards and played by the cello alone. Seven years later, when the political ice age of the Brezhnev regime had been superseded by the Khrushchev thaw, Shostakovich composed his second concerto for Rostropovich. It builds on the confessional intensity of the first concerto, but seems gloomier in character; it is infused with threnodic tones and has a ticking clock at the end, showing that even the mighty men's time has come. This album of the two Shostakovich cello concertos continues audite's successful cooperation with the Strasbourg-born cellist Marc Coppey, who approaches both works with boundless energy and without any sentimentality. Album Tracks 1. Concerto No. 1, Op. 107 2. Concerto No. 2, Op. 126