COMPOSERS: Hindemith,Ligeti,Medering,Sessions
LABELS: Channel
ALBUM TITLE: Collection: Pieter Wispelwey
WORKS: Sonata; Requiem for ‘cello alone’; Sonata; Six Pieces; La belle dame sans merci
PERFORMER: Pieter Wispelwey (cello)
CATALOGUE NO: CCS 7495 DDD
Wispelwey is best known for his Baroque playing, but the purity of his approach is perfectly suited to this introspective repertoire. The revelation is Ligeti’s glorious two-movement Sonata, written before he left Hungary, which Wispelwey plays with impressive facility and panache. Sculthorpe’s Requiem draws its inspiration from plainsong and maintains a wonderful sense of space and stillness. In contrast, the remaining works come across as bruisingly rhetorical. Helen Wallace
Ligeti, Hindemith, Sessions, Medering
Wispelwey is best known for his Baroque playing, but the purity of his approach is perfectly suited to this introspective repertoire. The revelation is Ligeti’s glorious two-movement Sonata, written before he left Hungary, which Wispelwey plays with impressive facility and panache. Sculthorpe’s Requiem draws its inspiration from plainsong and maintains a wonderful sense of space and stillness. In contrast, the remaining works come across as bruisingly rhetorical. Helen Wallace
Published: January 20, 2012 at 2:39 pm
