Pieter Wispelwey
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Special offer. Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 2
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello)
Sinfonietta Cracovia, Jurjen Hempel
Whereas Müller-Schott and Kreizberg view the Concerto as a darkly contemplative monologue that is almost suffocating in its brooding introspection, Wispelwey manages to find more light and shade... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Award for Technical Excellence in Recording
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Wispelwey’s G major repatriation [of the First Brahms Sonata] has reintroduced all the original’s soft, autumnal intimacy, further offset by the cello’s own more dulcet tones. It’s a winner,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Schubert: Works for Cello and Piano
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello) and Paolo Giacometti (piano)
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Building a Library, October 2012, First Choice
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Walton's Cello Concerto is like a bottle of vintage wine from the composer's home on the Italian island of Ischia… its warmth, finesse and wry serenity are qualities that appeal all the more... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Lalo & Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos
RecommendedPeter Wispelwey (cello)
Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Seiko Kim
It says much for the Saint-Saens concerto that it stands up well to such inspired competition. —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Sonatas for Cello and Piano
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello) and Dejan Lazic (piano)
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Building a Library, January 2007, SACD Choice
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Weinberg: Works for Cello & Orchestra & Chamber Symphony No. 4
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Métamorphoses, Raphaël Feye
Wispelwey inflects the solo cello part with tremendous artistry, sculpting Weinberg’s melodic lines with a wonderful sense of colour and imagination yet without succumbing to indulgent emotion... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Elgar & Lutoslawski: Cello Concertos
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello)
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen
The utterly sympathetic performance of the Elgar displays both elasticity and plentiful re-creative fantasy. A notable achievement in every way. —
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Building a Library, June 2014, Recommendation on single disc
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Of my three dozen discs, and innumnerable performance I've heard live of Bach's Cello Suites, none is as challenging as this...[Wispelwey] adopts the pitch used at Cothen where Bach wrote the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2012
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Cello Concertos From the Netherlands
Dmitri Ferschtman (soloist), Heinrich Schiff (soloist), Pieter Wispelwey (soloist), Quirine Viersen (soloist), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ed Spanjaard
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