Transfigured Night
CD
RRP £10.85 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Alisa Weilerstein; Trondheim Soloists
- Label
- Pentatone Music
- Barcode
- 0827949071768
Review This is extraordinarily densely woven music, and yet the work comes across with a transparency that must owe something to Pentatone's excellent recording engineers, but even more to each one of the Trondheim players, who capture every shift of colour and allow their soloists to move into and out of the foreground beautifully. It's a yearning, soulful performance. --The Guardian This is the first release on Pentatone for the American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who was previously on Decca. It also marks the beginning of a new creative pairing as Artistic Partner with Norway's Trondheim Soloists. Judging from this recording, it seems it was a canny decision to unite them, as Weilerstein's clarity matches beautifully the crisp and clean Trondheim sound. For this inaugural album the cellist lines up Haydn's first and second cello concertos with Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht. On first glance these might seem unlikely bedfellows, but it is to Vienna that Weilerstein gazes; the city's contradictions and dualities, and the transformations that took place in its music, and composers, over time. It's also a city that the cellist has an emotional connection with, not just because of its hallowed musical roots, but also because her grandparents fled from there in 1938 (just four years after Schoenberg himself). Weilerstein breezes through the Haydn with deft support from the ensemble; the bouncing and tuneful Rondo of the third movement of No. 2 is a real joy. It's an assured perfor
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