Scenes

CD album cover 'Scenes' (GEN 89529) with Noriko Kitano, Michael Schlechtriem

GEN 89529 EAN: 4260036255294

26.6.2009Special offer
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Any cellist desperately in need of new works to perform will go through their collection of scores—and usually come up empty. But now there’s something exciting, moving, funny, richly varied, though almost never on concert programs out there... the new Genuin classics CD “Scenes” featuring the fabulous duo of Michael Schlechtriem (cello) and Noriko Kitano (piano). This release rewards the listener with brilliant performances of rarely heard cello repertoire. Who, after all, is familiar with the Frederick Delius cello sonata? Or how Paul Badura-Skoda’s Elegie? And how about the duos by Korngold and Mompou? – I beg your pardon. You don’t play the cello? All the better, for now you can just lean back and simply delight in this wonderful chamber music performanc

Noriko Kitano Piano
Michael Schlechtriem Cello

Any cellist desperately in need of new works to perform will go through their collection of scores—and usually come up empty. But now there’s something exciting, moving, funny, richly varied, though almost never on concert programs out there... the new Genuin classics CD “Scenes” featuring the fabulous duo of Michael Schlechtriem (cello) and Noriko Kitano (piano). This release rewards the listener with brilliant performances of rarely heard cello repertoire. Who, after all, is familiar with the Frederick Delius cello sonata? Or how Paul Badura-Skoda’s Elegie? And how about the duos by Korngold and Mompou? – I beg your pardon. You don’t play the cello? All the better, for now you can just lean back and simply delight in this wonderful chamber music performanc

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Tracklist

  1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
    From the incidental music to "Much Ado about Nothing" for Violin and Piano, op. 11
    Maiden in the bridal chamber
  2. Dogberry and Verges
  3. Garden scene
  4. Masquerade
  5. Joseph Marx (1882-1964)
    Pastorale for Cello and Piano
  6. Paul Badura-Skoda (*1927)
    Elegie for Piano
  7. Stefan Esser (*1966)
    Sonata for Cello and Piano
    Andante sempre rubato - Allegro moderato
  8. Lento, molto tranquillo
  9. Allegro risoluto - Epilog, quasi una Passacaglia: Lento tranquillo
  10. Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
    El Pont for Cello and Piano
  11. Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
    Sonata for Cello and Piano
    Allegro, ma non troppo - Lento, molto tranquillo - Tempo I - Maestoso

Any cellist desperately in need of new works to perform will go through their collection of scores—and usually come up empty. But now there’s something exciting, moving, funny, richly varied, though almost never on concert programs out there... the new Genuin classics CD “Scenes” featuring the fabulous duo of Michael Schlechtriem (cello) and Noriko Kitano (piano). This release rewards the listener with brilliant performances of rarely heard cello repertoire. Who, after all, is familiar with the Frederick Delius cello sonata? Or how Paul Badura-Skoda’s Elegie? And how about the duos by Korngold and Mompou? – I beg your pardon. You don’t play the cello? All the better, for now you can just lean back and simply delight in this wonderful chamber music performanc