Various Composers - Le violoncelle à l'école de Paris (Wen-Sinn Yang; Oliver Triendl)

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1. Tibor Harsányi - Rhapsody for Cello & Piano
2. Alexandre Tansman - 2 Pièces: No. 1, Mélodie
3. Alexandre Tansman - 2 Pièces: No. 2, Capriccio
4. Bohuslav Martinů - Variations sur un thème slovaque, H. 378
5. Tibor Harsányi - Cello Sonata: I. Sempre allegro
6. Tibor Harsányi - Cello Sonata: II. Adagio
7. Tibor Harsányi - Cello Sonata: III. Vivace
8. Alexander Tcherepnin - Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 1, Georgian Song
9. Alexander Tcherepnin - Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 2, Tartar Dance
10. Alexander Tcherepnin - Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 3, Russian Song
11. Alexander Tcherepnin - Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 4, Kazakh Dance
12. Marcel Mihalovici - Sonata in the Character of a Lyric Scene, Op. 108

Wen-Sinn Yang, cello

Oliver Triendl, piano

Date: 2021

Label: Oehms Classics

https://www.oehmsclassics.de/artikel/24834/Oliver_Triendl_Le_Violoncelle_%c3%80_L%c3%89cole_De_Paris

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Review

Tibor Harsanyi was a Hungarian-born composer and pianist. After studying in Budapest with Zoltan Kodaly and other stops, he eventually came to Paris. He co-founded the Société Triton, which also provided contacts with other emigrants. As a member of the Groupe des Quatre, along with Bohuslav Martinu, Marcel Mihalovici, and Conrad Beck, he was also part of a related group of emigrant composers known as the École de Paris which included Alexandre Tansman and Alexander Tcherepnin.

From this environment, cellist Wen-Sinn Yang and pianist Oliver Triendl have selected six works, the two by Harsanyi and the one by Mihalovici are premiere recordings. These composers have in common musically that they tried to transfer folk music into the commonly used notation, which is not exactly easy due to different conventions.

About the role of Oliver Triendl as an accomplished musician who carries his accompanist on pianistic hands, one hardly needs to say a word. His manifold activities in this field are well known.

The cellist Wen-Sinn Yang is recognized for his interest in bringing cello music from the virtuoso 19th century to the present day to audiences. In doing so, he repeatedly lands on little-known composers and works, as he does to some extent in this recording. The playing of this Munich-based teacher is characterized by his mastery of the instrument as well as by his performance style, which produces a wide range of subtly developed tones from the cello, so refined to make us forget the size and thus the supposed sluggishness of the instrument.

-- Uwe Krusch, Pizzicato

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Wen-Sinn Yang (born 1965 in Bern ) is a Swiss cellist of Taiwanese descent. Yang studied with Claude Starck in Zurich and Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin. He also attended master classes with János Starker and David Geringas. In 1989, Yang became principal cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra where he stayed until 2005. In 1991 he won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition. From 1995 to 1997 he taught at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken. In 2005 Yang was appointed professor for violoncello at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen-Sinn_Yang

http://wensinnyang.de/

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Olivier Triendl (born 1970 in Mallersdorf, Bavaria) is a German pianist. He studied with Rainer Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Diehl, Eckart Besch, Gerhard Oppitz and Oleg Maisenberg, and is winner of several national and international competitions. As a soloist as well as a chamber musician, Triendl established himself in recent years as an extremely versatile artist, with about 100 CD recordings demonstrate his commitment to the unknown repertoire of the classical, romantic and contemporary music. In 2006 he founded the International Chamber Music Festival “Classix Kempten” in Kempten, Bavaria.
http://www.icmf.nl/en/musician/oliver-triendl/

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