| Label: NAXOS
Catalog: 8572281
Format: CD Josef Feigelson: celloWeinberg: Sonata for Cello No. 2 Op. 86 / Sonata for Solo Cello No. 3, Op. 106 / Sonata for Cello No. 4, Op. 140 / Sonata for Cello No. 4, Op. 140 (original version 1985) Wholenote Dicoverioes - March 2011
Every now and then a CD comes along that blows your socks off. Enter cellist Josef Feigelson with his stunning performances of music for solo cello by the Polish/Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a colleague and friend of Shostakovich who died in 1996. Previously available on the Olympia label, these World Premiere Recordings of the Sonatas for Solo Cello Nos. 2, 3 & 4 (plus the original - and tougher - first movement for the latter) were recorded in New York in November 1997. Feigelson played them from the manuscripts, which he acquired from the composer’s widow in Moscow, having recorded Sonata No.1 along with the 24 Cello Preludes in 1996. (Those recordings are now available on Naxos 8.572280.) If you are even remotely interested in music for unaccompanied cello then this CD is an absolute “must” and at the low Naxos price it’s a no-brainer. Buy it. Play it. And hang on to your socks. Terry Robbins  Price: $19.98 |
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