GRAMMY-award-winning pianist Lambert Orkis and principal cellist for the National Symphony Orchestra David Hardy have delivered an entirely new way to hear this spectacular repertoire. This 4-disc set provides the listener with two completely different listening experiences for these pieces. First, the works are performed as they are most often heard in performance today, on a modern piano and with the cello strung with steel strings. Next the listener is transported into the the time that the works were originally written with a second complete performance on three period-correct forte pianos, and with the cello now strung with traditional gut strings. 

Both performers, who are each masters of modern and period performance practice, contribute to the accompanying notes for the album, and both provide into the question “why two complete performances?”. 

1 Cello
Carlo Giuseppe Testore, 1694, Milan, Italy
2 con gurations - strung with steel strings andstrung with gut strings

4 Pianos
Hamburg Steinway, early 21st Century
Wolf after Dulcken, ca. 1788
Wolf after Streicher, ca. 1814-1820
Regier after early Viennese Models, ca. 1830

Track List

Disc 1
Variations on "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" from Handel's Oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus," for Piano and Cello in G Major, WoO 45
1. Theme: Allegretto
2. Variation I
3. Variation II
4. Variation III
5. Variation IV
6. Variation V
7. Variation VI
8. Variation VII
9. Variation VIII
10. Variation IX
11. Variation X: Allegro
12. Variation XI: Adagio
13. Variation XII: Allegro
Sonata for Piano and Cello in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1
14. 1. Adatio sostenuto;
15. Allegro
16. 2. Rondo: Allegro Vivace
Sonata for Piano and Cello in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
17. 1. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo;
18. Allegro molto piu tosto presto
19. 2. Rondo: Allegro
12 Variations on "Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen" from Mozart's Opera "Die Zauberflote," in F Major for Piano and Cello, Op. 66
20. Theme: Allegretto
21. Variation I
22. Variation II
23. Variation III
24. Variation IV
25. Variation V
26. Variation VI
27. Variation VII
28. Variation VIII
29. Variation IX
30. Variation X: Adagio
31. Variation XI: Poco Adagio quasi Andante
32. Variation XII: Allegro

Disc 2
Variations on "Bei Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen" From Mozart's Opera "Die Zauberflote," in E Flat Major for Piano and Cello, WoO 46
1. Theme: Andante
2. Variation 1
3. Variation II
4. Variation III
5. Variation IV
6. Variation V: Si prenda il tempo un poco piu vivace
7. Variation VI: Adagio
8. Variation VII: Allegro ma non troppo
Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 69
9. 1. Allegro ma non tanto
10. 2. Scherzo: Allegro molto
11. 3. Adagio cantabile
12. 4. Allegro vivace
Sonata for Piano and Cello in C Major, Op. 102, No.1
13. 1. Andante:
14. Allegro vivace
15. 2. Adagio: Tempo d'Andante:
16. Allegro vivace
Sonata for Piano and Cello in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
17. 1. Allegro con brio
18. 2. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affeto
19. 3. Allegro

Disc 3
Variations on "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" from Handel's Oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus," for Piano and Cello in G Major, WoO 45
1. Theme: Allegretto
2. Variation I
3. Variation II
4. Variation III
5. Variation IV
6. Variation V
7. Variation VI
8. Variation VII
9. Variation VIII
10. Variation IX
11. Variation X: Allegro
12. Variation XI: Adagio
13. Variation XII: Allegro
Sonata for Piano and Cello in F Major, Op. 5, No. 2
14. 1. Adagio sostenuto:
15. Allegro
16. 2. Rondo: Allegro vivace
Sonata for Piano and Cello in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
17. 1. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo:
18. Allegro molto piu tosto presto
19. 2. Rondo: Allegro
Variations on "Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen" from Mozart's Opera "Die Zauberflote," in F Major for Piano and Cello, Op. 66
20. Theme: Allegretto
21. Variation I
22. Variation II
23. Variation III
24. Variation IV
25. Variation V
26. Variation VI
27. Variation VII
28. Variation VIII
29. Variation IX
30. Variation X: Adagio
31. Variation XI: Poco Adagio quasi Andante
32. Varitation XII: Allegro

Disc 4
7 Variations on "Bei Mannern, Welche Liebe Fuhlen" from Mozart's Opera "Die Zauberflote," in E Flat Major for Piano and Cello, WoO 46
1. Theme: Andante
2. Variation I
3. Variation II
4. Variation III
5. Variation IV
6. Variation V: Si prenda il tempo un poco piu vivace
7. Variation VI: Adagio
8. Variation VII: Allegro ma non troppo
Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 69
9. 1. Allegro ma non tanto
10. 2. Scherzo: Allegro molto
11. 3. Adagio cantabile
12. 4. Allegro vivace
Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 102, No. 1
13. I. Andante:
14. Allegro vivace
15. 2. Adagio: Temp d'Andante;
16. Allegro vivace
Sonata for Piano and Cello in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
17. 1. Allegro con brio
18. 2. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto
19. 3. Allegro

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Release date: September 2010
UPC: 053479091024

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