Marc Coppey, Lawrence Foster - Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2021) (Hi-Res)

This live recording of the two Shostakovich cello concertos continues audite's successful cooperation with Marc Coppey, who approaches both works with boundless energy and without any sentimentality.

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote two concertos for the cello, and both are dedicated to the most eminent Soviet cellist of his time: Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1959 he wrote his first cello concerto, whose musical language is almost classical but which also reveals an enormous panorama of moods, gestures and "stories". Seven years later, Shostakovich composed his second concerto; it builds on the confessional intensity of the first concerto but seems gloomier in character and is infused with threnodic tones.

In this concert recording, Coppey performs alongside the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence Foster in the new Katowice concert hall.

Tracklist

01. Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107: I. Allegretto
02. Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107: II. Moderato
03. Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107: III. Cadenza
04. Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107: IV. Allegro con moto
05. Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 126: I. Largo
06. Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 126: II. Allegretto
07. Cello Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 126: III. Allegretto