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Le Grand Tango and other Dances for Cello and Piano The title of the present collection of music for cello and piano is taken from the work of the twentieth...

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Le Grand Tango and other Dances for Cello and Piano

The title of the present collection of music for cello and piano is taken from the work of the twentieth century Argentinian master of the dance form, Astor Piazzolla (b. 1921), who has written tangos for a wide variety of instrumental groupings. The collection starts with another popular musical form associated with the Spanish motherland, Huguety Tagell's evocation of the spirit of flamenco.

Gaspar Cassado was also Spanish, or, more specifically, Catalan by birth. He was born in Barcelona in 1897, the son of the organist and composer Joaquin Cassado Valls and studied the cello in Paris with his compatriot Pablo Casals.

He began his concert career in 1918, appearing as a soloist, recitalist and, with the greatest distinction over many years, in chamber music together with some of the most famous musicians of the present century. He died in Madrid on Christmas Eve 1966. As a composer Cassado was greatly influenced by his contemporaries in Paris, Maurice Ravel and Manuel de Falla, the first the son of a mother from the Basque country and the second the most influential of contemporary Spanish composers. His Solo Suite includes, as its second movement, the most characteristic of Catalan dances, the Sardana.

Manuel de Falla was a native of Cadiz, where he was born in 1876, moving later to Madrid and then to Paris, where he remained until the outbreak of war in 1914. He later settled in Granada, where he formed a friendship with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and was deeply influenced by the cante jondo of Andalusia.

Although neutral in the Civil War, he left Spain in 1939, to settle in Argentina, where he died in 1946. Orchestral music from his stage-works La vida breve (Short Life), El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat) and El amor brujo (Love the Magician) form a frequent part of concert programmes, with their characteristic dances and turns of melody. The Ritual Fire Dance, with its growing tension and excitement, has dramatic importance in the last of these, a ballet of gypsy love, jealousy and haunting.

Sergei Rachmaninov spent the latter part of his career, after the Russian Revolution, as a virtuoso pianist, with relatively little leisure for composition. After earlier abortive musical training in St. Petersburg, he became a student at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in piano in 1891 at the age of eighteen and in composition the following year, the year of his Oriental Dance, written, possibly, with the cellist Brandukovsky in mind, the latter a former pupil and protege of Tchaikovsky.

The Austrian cellist David Popper was born in Prague in 1843. By 1868 he had become principal cellist at the Vienna Court Opera and was for some years cellist in the Hellmesnerger Quartet. In later years he taught at the Budapest Conservatory and was cellist in the Hubay Quartet. As a composer he wrote a very considerable quantity of cello music, some seventy pieces in all, in addition to his four concertos for the instrument and his Requiem for three cellos and orchestra. The five pieces here included are taken from various groups of works, ranging from the Drei St�cke of 1874, the year after he left the Court Opera Orchestra, to a series of dances of varying date, with a Dance of the Gnomes taken from his 1882 collection Im Walde (In the Forest).

Short piano pieces of only mode rate difficulty intended for amateurs of varying musical ambitionere a continuing source of profit to composers and publishers in the nineteenth and well into the present century. Tchaikovsky wrote a set of six such pieces in the late summer of 1882, the sixth of the set, Valse sentimentale, retaining its familiar place in repertoire in a variety of arrangements.

Maria Kliegel

Maria Kliegel achieved significant success in 1981, when she was awarded the Grand Prix in the Rostropovich Competition. Born in Dillenburg, Germany, she began learning the cello at the age of ten and first came to public attention five years later, when, as a student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, she twice won first prize in the Jugend Musiziert competition. She later studied in America with Janos Starker, serving as his assistant, and subsequently appeared in a phenomenal series of concerts in America, Switzerland and France, with Rostropovich as conductor. She has since then enjoyed an international career of growing distinction as a soloist and recitalist, offering an amazingly wide repertoire, ranging from Bach and Vieuxtemps to the contemporary.

Bernd Glemser

A prize-winner on no less than seventeen occasions in international competitions, the young German pianist Bernd Glemser was born in D�rbheim and was still a pupil of Vitalij Margulis when he was appointed professor at the Saarbr�cken Musikhochschule, in succession to Andor Foldes, himself the successor of Walter Gieseking. In 1992 he won the Andor Foldes Prize and in 1993 the first European Pianists' Prize. With a wide repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the contemporary, Bernd Glemser has a particular affection for the virtuoso music of the later nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries, the work of Liszt, Tausig, Godowski, Busoni, and especially that of Rachmaninov. His career has brought appearances at major music festivals and leading concert halls throughout Europe and further afield.

Disc 1

Flamenco

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Composed by: Rogelio Huguet y Tagell
Maria Kliegel, cello
Bernd Glemser, piano
Recording date: 3-4 May 1993
Produced by: Appenheimer, Gunter

Flamenco - 3:01

Solo Suite

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Composed by: Gaspar Cassado
Maria Kliegel, cello
Bernd Glemser, piano
Recording date: 3-4 May 1993
Produced by: Appenheimer, Gunter

Prelude - Fantasia - 6:28
Sardana - Danza - 3:17
Intermezzo e danza finale - 5:59

Spanish Dance (arr. G. Pekkera)

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Composed by: Manuel de Falla
Maria Kliegel, cello
Bernd Glemser, piano
Recording date: 3-4 May 1993
Produced by: Appenheimer, Gunter

Spanish Dance (arr. G. Pekkera) - 3:57

Ritual Fire Dance (Amor brujo)

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Composed by: Manuel de Falla
Maria Kliegel, cello
Bernd Glemser, piano
Recording date: 3-4 May 1993
Produced by: Appenheimer, Gunter

Ritual Fire Dance (Amor brujo) - 3:30

Oriental Dance, Op. 2, No. 2

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Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov
Maria Kliegel, cello
Bernd Glemser, piano
Recording date: 3-4 May 1993
Produced by: Appenheimer, Gunter

Oriental Dance, Op. 2, No. 2 - 8:48

Gnomentanz, Op. 50, No. 2

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