Composer : Busoni, FerruccioInstrumentation : Vc,KlavEdition : UrtextEditor : Draheim, Joachim

Busoni was just sixteen years old when he wrote the extraordinary Serenata, and the quality of the music is exceptional. The work draws inspiration from the serenade as love song, and the interplay between the warm, lyrical cello line countered by its bright and lively piano partner is highly effective. In preparing this new addition, cellist Lowrii Blake has consulted the original manuscript of this undeservedly neglected work.

Par BUSONI FERRUCCIO. Editeur(s) d'origine: Klengel, Paul/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The Suite is a student exercise, first performed 13. 4. 1889 at a musical soirée at the Helsinki Music Institute. Ferruccio Busoni, who was teacher of piano at the Institute at the time, described the first performance as follows: “We sharpened our concentration as we realised that we were about to hear something quite beyond the usual standard for student works…”. In the A major suite, colour comes to the fore for the first time as a major element in Sibelius’s music. The emphasis on sonic texture is joined – somewhat unusually for such an early work – by a fairly bold handling of rhythm and harmony. Unfortunately only the first three movements of the suite have survived in tact. The concept of the missing Gigue has survived, however, and is included in this publication./ Répertoire / Trio à Cordes

Par WEILL KURT. Das Streichquartett des Jahres 1923 - die Pantomime 'Zaubernacht' war bereits komponiert , die erste Oper, 'Der Protagonist' , sollte ein Jahr später geschrieben werden - hat noch etwas vom Ton der Anbruchstimmung, dessen sich die Avantgarde von damals befleißigte. Anklänge an den Neoklassizismus, auch busonischer Spielart, sind freilich eher schwach. Dagegen berührt sich die Ausdrucksgebärde vor allem der langsameren Partien bisweilen recht nachdrücklich mit den Tendenzen des späten Expressionismus. Doch sind im Gestus der melodischen Gestalt gerade diejenigen Qualitäten schon recht deutlich ausgebildet, die den späteren Weill - Stil prägen./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes