Maria Kliegel, Nina Tichman - Dvořák: Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 - Orr: A Carmen Fantasy - Danzi: Don Giovanni Variations (2007)

Tracklist

01. A Carmen Fantasy
02. Variations On a Theme from Mozart's Don Giovanni (version for Cello and Piano)
03. Figaro Variations from Rossini's the Barber of Seville: Figaro Variations from Rossini's the Barber of Seville (ed. G. Piatigorsky)
04. Lamento de Boabdil
05. Rondo in G Minor, Op. 94
06. Ze Sumavy (From the Bohemian Forest): No. 5. Klid (Silent Woods) [arr. for Cello and Piano]
07. Violin Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 (arr. O. Hartwieg for Cello): I. Allegro Risoluto
08. Violin Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 (arr. O. Hartwieg for Cello): II. Larghetto
09. Violin Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 (arr. O. Hartwieg for Cello): III. Scherzo: Molto Vivace
10. Violin Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 (arr. O. Hartwieg for Cello): IV. Finale: Allegro

This recording of virtuoso cello repertoire ranges from the work of the Mannheim cellist and composer, Franz Danzi to the British composer Buxton Orr’s Carmen Fantasy, the cellist’s answer to Franz Waxman’s famous violin fantasy. Orr’s work opens, unusually, with a cello cadenza based on the Fate motif from Bizet’s opera, which links the familiar themes, such as the Habanera and the Flower Song, used in this dazzling encore piece. The Spanish theme is continued in Gaspar Cassadó’s Lamento de Boabdil, which describes the legendary sorrow of the exiled last Moorish ruler of Granada, Muhammad XII, known to the Spanish as Boabdil. Castelnuovo-Tesdesco’s Figaro Variations takes as it theme the famous Largo al factotum, which appears in various guises with increasing demands for technical virtuosity.

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