Vytautas Sondeckis- Romantic Music for Cello [Laureate Series: Cello] (CD)
Channel Classics gives us under-appreciated stellar talents in violinist Rachel Podger and cellist Peter Wispelwey, and Naxos offers parallels in violinist Michiko Kamiya and cellist Vytautas Sondeckis in it's Laureate series. Sondeckis serves up a 60-minute box of assortment from eastern Europe here, with expressive vibrato and the solid technical skills one might expect from the son of a distinguished cellist and student of David Geringas, himself a renowned cellist who ably conducts the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in this recording. Much of the music is familiar: Tchaikovsky's Melody, Nocturne, and Andante Cantabile, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Serenade, and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise. Other pieces are less well-known, works by Davidov, Dvarionas and Taneyev, and a lush Shostakovich adagio arranged for cello and string orchestra by Atovmyan.
Tracklist:
- The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee
- By The Lake (Prie Ezerelio)
- Melodie Op.42, No.3
- Nocturne Op.19, No.4
- Melodie
- Ballade Op.25
- At The Fountain Op.20, No.2
- Intro And Rondino
- Canzona in f
- Ballet Ste No.2: Adagio
- Vocalise Op.34, No.14
- Ser Op.37
- Str Qt No.1 in D, Op.11: Andante Cantabile, Op. Posth.
Channel Classics gives us under-appreciated stellar talents in violinist Rachel Podger and cellist Peter Wispelwey, and Naxos offers parallels in violinist Michiko Kamiya and cellist Vytautas Sondeckis in it's Laureate series. Sondeckis serves up a 60-minute box of assortment from eastern Europe here, with expressive vibrato and the solid technical skills one might expect from the son of a distinguished cellist and student of David Geringas, himself a renowned cellist who ably conducts the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in this recording. Much of the music is familiar: Tchaikovsky's Melody, Nocturne, and Andante Cantabile, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Serenade, and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise. Other pieces are less well-known, works by Davidov, Dvarionas and Taneyev, and a lush Shostakovich adagio arranged for cello and string orchestra by Atovmyan.
Tracklist:
- The Flight Of The Bumble-Bee
- By The Lake (Prie Ezerelio)
- Melodie Op.42, No.3
- Nocturne Op.19, No.4
- Melodie
- Ballade Op.25
- At The Fountain Op.20, No.2
- Intro And Rondino
- Canzona in f
- Ballet Ste No.2: Adagio
- Vocalise Op.34, No.14
- Ser Op.37
- Str Qt No.1 in D, Op.11: Andante Cantabile, Op. Posth.