It just got tougher out there for cellists

It just got tougher out there for cellists

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norman lebrecht

January 05, 2018

From the first Lebrecht Album of the Week review of 2018:

It just got a whole load tougher out there for young cellists.

The first release batch of the New Year contains no fewer than four cello-piano recitals, all of them estimable. In a shrinking media environment, none will get the full-length attention they deserve. The best I can give them here is short Schrift….

Who does best?

Read on here.

 

Comments

  • Pierre Fontenelle says:

    Gets tougher, sure – but it always gets more interesting! All these great young cellists are such amazing inspiration to us other less talented young cellists!

    A lot of new repertoire (you mention in your article Moreau’s rendition of the Rita Strohl Dramatic Sonata – great stuff! I could even see a great CD pairing of French women composers – Rita Strohl, the Boulanger sisters, Betsy Jolas, Marie Jaëll…) 😉

    Mr. Lebrecht, I was wondering what you meant in the paragraph on the rest of Moreau’s album “remaining pieces are mere morceaux” – do you mean that they’re uninteresting pieces? Why?

    Thanks for the coverage of cellists!

  • Bruce says:

    I don’t understand what “Massenet’s outworn sole” means.

    • Pierre Fontenelle says:

      Lol, that’s Massenet’s Meditation – it is pretty cliché, I have to admit… 😛

      But putting together both Swan’s was cute I thought (Villa-Lobos’ and Saint-Saens’)

    • steven holloway says:

      I could only suppose that NL heard in Massenet’s Meditation an outworn SOUL, though I still don’t know what he’s getting at.

  • Philip Taggart says:

    Why isn’t the cellist in the photo identified?

  • Konnor Barnes says:

    Konnor, though this might be of interest to you. Love Grams

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