| Review by JW May 29, 2003 (0 of 1 found this review helpful)
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Finding Pieter Wispelwey's recording was a personal discovery that I have SACD and the friends at audioasylum.com to thank for. I had never heard of him before. I enjoy classical music, I go to concerts etc, but I am by no means an expert on the topic. If you are like me and you like the idea of piano accompanied by the rich sounding violoncello, the Wispelwey disc might be right for you.
Channel Classics label has come out with some fantastic recordings, both musically engaging and 'audiophile' in sound. For those of you who don't know Pieter Wispelwey, he is a celloist mainly, and he won the Elisabeth Everts Prize (1985), which is an award for the most promising musician in the Netherlands. This is a quote from the Channel Classics website (www.channelclassics.com):
"Wispelwey is one of the first of a generation of general specialists, performing exquisitely on either an authentic or modern cello. His expert stylistic knowledge, original and profound musical thinking, augmented by a phenomenal technique enable him to render individual, yet remarkable interpretations of the cello repertoire from J.S. Bach to Elliot Carter. For years now, he has won the hearts of critics and public alike with his unique performances of the Bach and Britten unaccompanied cello suites, and with his recitals of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas either on authentic or modern instruments."
The opening movement of the Franck sonata is fairly well known I would say and typical for Franck's meditative style. The music on this disc is engaging, intensely melodic, dreamy at times, symphonic sometimes, but always simply beautiful. Pieter Wispelwey is accompanied on piano by Paolo Giacometti - another Dutch schooled artist - born in Milan - who graduated with honors from the conservatory in Amsterdam.
Jw
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