Mendelssohn / Lamsma,Simone - Sonatas for Violin and Piano - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

This album collects for the first time four of the most important works from Radulescu's later period, all composed for cello, and all performed by his widow Catherine Marie Tunnell. Radulescu and Tunnell began working together almost immediately upon meeting in 1995. By the time they were married in 1997, Radulescu had already composed for her two of the pieces on this disc (the solo Lux Animae and the cello sonata L'Exil Intérieur), and revised and rededicated her a third, older work (Das Andere, first composed in 1984). L'Exil Intérieur was Radulescu's first and only work in the of Inchsonata for instrument and piano. Inch A magical, otherworldly spectral composition using the combined sounds of cello and piano combined with folkloristic influences from his native Romania. Das Andere is a work that can be played on any stringed instrument tuned in open fifths. It features heavy use of extended techniques. The notes to the score describe the performer's role in this work as being to Inch... create a sense of trance, close to a spiritism [sic] séance... Inch Pre-Existing Soul of Then for 2 cellos, is heard as on this recording as an Inchideal version,Inch formed by meticulously overdubbing the cello parts in two individual layers. This provides a challenge in terms of both timing and tuning, but the results are far closer to the composer's original intention than any live version that has been performed so far. Lux Animae is a set of 21 InchwindowsInch through which the light of the soul may shine. Radulescu utilizes several of his spectral techniques in service of the larger goal of making the theoretical or imaginary concretely manifest in the physical world, as the whole instrument of the cello becomes an emanation of an impossibly low pitch, and the time in which the work exists a sort of Inchring-modulationInch of time itself.

This is the second volume in Jan Willem de Vriend & the Netherland Symphony Orchestra's survey of Mendelssohn's complete symphonies. The conductor's fresh, innovative approach to the classical/romantic repertoire is acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, and in the case of Mendelssohn, he comes to the recording session after deep musicological research on the composer's life and work. This particular disc also stands out due to the conductor's decision to use natural horns and trumpets with pistons.

When Kamilla Schatz plays the violin, she becomes one with her instrument; she revels and singsInch- with these words the Berliner Togesspiegel hailed the debut of Swiss violinist Kamilla Schatz at Berlin's Philharmonie Concert Hall. Since then, she has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Freiburg/Baden-Baden, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. She performed as a chamber musician at the Berliner Festwochen, and the Lucerne Festival. Since 2017 she has been the artistic director of the 'Laudinella' Cultural Centre in St. Moritz. She is joined here by pianist Benjamin Engeli, one of the most versatile musicians of his generation. His career as a soloist and chamber musician has taken him to venues across the world, and he has performed with such orchestras as the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Here they present Violin Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven as well as his variations on 'Se Vuol Ballare' from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.