Philip Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto (2001)
Philip Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 56:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMA 1951731 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 229 Mb | Total time: 56:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMA 1951731 | Recorded: 1996
Philippe Herreweghe directs these Schumann concertos with severity and urgency, with an impact that’s particularly strong in the opening movement of the A minor piano concerto. The soloist is Andreas Staier, who plays a mid-19th century J.B. Streicher instrument. But it’s not just the use of period instruments (this is certainly the kind of piano Schumann would have known) that proves so fascinating here; rather, it’s the minutely detailed way in which soloist and conductor interact during this performance. Note, for instance, how astutely Herreweghe’s wind players articulate the sorrowful first subject group after the soloist’s opening salvo, a passage that sets the tone for all that follows. Dotted notes are exactly in time, neither clipped nor deliberately extended and fussed over. And dots or lines added above rising note-groups also are correctly observed, so the first movement’s main theme isn’t made to sound ponderous, but rather lithe and mobile, with a character more varied than we usually hear.
Staier plays the solo part impressively (the big cadenza in the first movement is superb), and the fact that he often seems to be struggling to produce sufficient weight of tone, even against the relatively small orchestral forces, isn’t necessarily a drawback, but rather a vindication of the novel approach taken here. Schumann wouldn’t have expected to hear the piano coming through as powerfully as we’re used to in dialogue sections with orchestra anyway. And in the slow movement, it’s the delicacy and lightness that impress, with vibrato-less cellos sounding miraculously clear in their big melody, and Staier’s interjections heightening the chamber-like effect achieved in this intermezzo before a jubilantly agile finale. It’s a very fine performance indeed, brimming over with unexpected points of detail too numerous to describe here. If you’re keen to hear the Schumann concerto in a setting that can’t be too far removed from what the composer envisioned, this will satisfy very well, and it’s a huge advance on the Newport Classic account from Thomas Lorango with the New Brandenburg Collegium.
Christophe Coin’s version of the A minor cello concerto is a performance of stirring endeavour, but here you’ll probably miss the fuller sonority of a modern instrument far more than in the piano concerto. Still, if you’re interested in experiencing both works in an unfamiliar setting, this beautifully engineered disc is worth hearing.–ClassicsToday
Performer:
Christophe Coin, cello
Andreas Staier, piano
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Tracklist:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
01. I. Allegro. Nicht zu schnell
02. II. Adagio. Langsam
03. III. Finale. Vivace. Sehr lebhaft
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
04. I. Allegro affetuoso
05. II. Intermezzo
06. III. Finale. Allegro Vivace
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Philip Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées - Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto (2001)
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