Swedish-born cellist Daniel Blendulf, a member of the Z Quartet, joins pianist Francisca Skoogh for his debut album of Shostakovich chamber works. The CD opens with the Op. 40 Cello Sonata. Of interest is the fact that the recording engineer and editor for this performance is fellow cellist and Swede Mats Rondin, who himself has released several successful recordings of cello repertoire. Listeners will at once notice a somewhat peculiar sound quality for an album recorded in 2007. The sound aesthetic almost exactly matches ...
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Swedish-born cellist Daniel Blendulf, a member of the Z Quartet, joins pianist Francisca Skoogh for his debut album of Shostakovich chamber works. The CD opens with the Op. 40 Cello Sonata. Of interest is the fact that the recording engineer and editor for this performance is fellow cellist and Swede Mats Rondin, who himself has released several successful recordings of cello repertoire. Listeners will at once notice a somewhat peculiar sound quality for an album recorded in 2007. The sound aesthetic almost exactly matches that of the infamous recording of the sonata made by Rostropovich with Shostakovich himself at the piano -- the same distant, echoic feeling with a similarly scratchy texture throughout. This is certainly an odd aspect of that great recording to emulate, and some may find it off-putting. Blendulf's interpretation of the first movement is rather slow and reserved, which lessens the contrast with the augmentation of the theme in the Largo conclusion of the movement. The rest of the...
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