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The Cello in Wartime -Debussy, F.Bridge, Faure, Webern, etc : Isserlis(Vc)Connie Shih(P)(Hybrid)

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Catalogue Number
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BISSA2312
Number of Discs
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1
Label
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Bis
Format
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SACD
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Hybrid Disc,Import

Product Description

As the centenaries of various events of the First World War are being commemorated, we are reminded of the great battles and the large-scale suffering. To imagine what day-to-day life may have been like in the trenches in Flanders is more difficult, however, 100 years later and with no living survivors of the war to bear witness. Poems and paintings can give us some idea but, as this disc from Steven Isserlis proves, so can music! The main, more conventional section of the programme is a selection of cello works composed around the time of the war, by composers from three of the countries involved in it: France, Britain and Austria. This is followed by something rather more unusual, however, as Isserlis exchanges his Marquis de Corberon Stradivarius for an instrument that was once played and heard in the trenches of Ypres. Harold Triggs, the owner of this so-called trench cello, brought it with him to Flanders from England other soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, constructed their own violins, cellos or flutes on site, from ammunition boxes, pipes and whatever else they could get hold of. These instruments thus become a highly moving testimony to every mans need for beauty and solace and joy, even in the middle of a battlefield. With the delicate support of Connie Shih on the piano (and in fact even pianos could be found in the trenches, even if not concert grands!), Isserlis and his trench cello transport us, for a brief moment, to a trench near Ypres during a quiet spell between skirmishes, with soldiers resting, writing home, playing cards and with the help of the music dreaming of a life elsewhere.

Track List   

  • 01. I. Prologue. Lent, Sostenuto E Molto Risoluto
  • 02. II. Serenade. Modrment Anim
  • 03. III. Finale. Anim, Lger Et Nerveux
  • 04. I. Allegro Ben Moderato
  • 05. II. Adagio Non Troppo - Molto Allegro Agitato - Tempo I
  • 06. I. Allegro
  • 07. II. Andante
  • 08. III. Final: Allegro Comodo
  • 09. Mige Achtel
  • 10. Sehr Bewegt
  • 11. uerst Ruhig
  • 12. The Swan
  • 13. Jerusalem
  • 14. Keep the Home-Fires Burning
  • 15. God Save the King

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胸詰まるようなチェロの音だ ドビュッシー...

投稿日:2018/06/22 (金)

胸詰まるようなチェロの音だ ドビュッシーが1915年 ブリッジが1916〜17年 フォーレが1917年 ヴェーベルンが1914年 第一次世界大戦1914〜18年中に書かれた曲が並ぶ これをイッサーリスはストラディヴァリウスで弾いている どれも哀愁漂う佳作で コニー・シーの弾くスタンウェイDの鼻にかかったようなピアノ音と相まって情緒綿々と余韻を引く だがジャケット写真にもあるように 実はイッサーリスが弾きたかったのはこの兵隊服の男が弾く奇妙なチェロだ 弾薬箱で作られ移動時には分解して全てを箱に収めて持ち運べるチェロ 1900年W.H.Hillと息子たちが造ったとある こちらで弾かれるのはサン=サーンス パリー ノヴェロなどの小品ばかりだが これがしみじみ好いのだ タイトな響きを愛しむようにイッサーリスがヴィブラートを控えめにして奏でる 遠くへ届く響きを憚るかのように楽の音を噛みしめる なんと哀しくそして美しいことか 朋よ耳傾けよ あなたも如何    

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