Japanese-German cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, with a pearly tone and plenty of athletic agility in the extreme ranges of a piece like the second movement of Zoltán Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8, heard here, has gained plenty of notice as a rising star on the instrument. Here he takes another step forward with a recital that's not just cleanly executed, but quite uncannily well planned. Ishizaka's topic here is the development of the nationalist idea as it matured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All the pieces on ...
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Japanese-German cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, with a pearly tone and plenty of athletic agility in the extreme ranges of a piece like the second movement of Zoltán Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8, heard here, has gained plenty of notice as a rising star on the instrument. Here he takes another step forward with a recital that's not just cleanly executed, but quite uncannily well planned. Ishizaka's topic here is the development of the nationalist idea as it matured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. All the pieces on the album are rooted in folk music to one degree or another, but all of them also push against the nationalist idea. The title of Janácek's three-movement Pohádka means "Fairy Tale" and has affinities with expressionist treatments of myths and fairy tales in literature and art; the work has a psychologically penetrating quality and despite its fairly early date is entirely characteristic of its composer's output. Even cellists who complain about the sparsity of their repertoire do...
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Edvard Grieg; Leos Janácek; Zoltán Kodály. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
