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Latest News LATEST NEWS NEW RELEASE CC1026
Nancy Green will be releasing a second cd on Cello Classics in Autumn 2010. ‘Song of the Birds’ features works for cello and piano on a Latin/Spanish theme, by de Falla, Piazzolla, Ginastera, Granados, Sarasate, Casals and Cassado OTHER RECENT RELEASES: Sebastian Comberti (cello) Concertos by Haydn in C major and D major
CC1023 In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Sebastian Comberti plays the two popular concertos, performed using the original chamber-sized orchestration, with the renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition this Cd includes the world première recording of a beautiful recently discovered concerto by Haydn’s contemporary, Johann Zumsteeg. Alone
The award-winning Chinese/Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin makes his first Cd for Cello Classics with a programme of late 20th C works for unaccompanied cello, and also a specially commissioned work by Ho Chee Kong. This stunning new solo disc shows the formidable Li-Wei at his very best. This disc explores the music of an all-but-forgotten Englishman, Stephen Paxton, who flourished in London in the late 18th century. Famous as a composer of glees and catches he wrote a large number of works for his own instrument, the cello. Mostly recorded here for the first time Sebastian Comberti brings these forgotten works to light accompanied by a continuo team of Ruth Alford and Maggie Cole, with The Pantheon Band. |