Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107, etc.

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Chang brings clear-sighted belief to everything she touches. Her range is generous indeed, from barely-audible ghostly voices to high-octane drama… What wins me over without reservation is... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Feb 2006
Catalogue No: 3324222
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 56 minutes

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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107

Work length28:41

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Han-Na Chang (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2005-06-12
Recording Venue: 12th June 2005, Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London

Allegretto

Track length6:08

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Moderato

Track length11:58

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Cadenza

Track length6:08

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Allegro con moto

Track length4:27

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Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

Work length28:08

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Han-Na Chang (cello), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Recorded: 2005-06-19
Recording Venue: 19th June 2005, Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London

I. Allegro non troppo - Largo

Track length12:05

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II. Allegro

Track length3:11

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III. Largo

Track length8:51

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IV Allegro

Track length4:01

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May 2006

Chang brings clear-sighted belief to everything she touches. Her range is generous indeed, from barely-audible ghostly voices to high-octane drama… What wins me over without reservation is the superlative partnership with Pappano and the LSO on peak form. ...Pappano doubles as Chang's partner in the accompanying Sonata, taking on the fiendish quick-change artistry of the piano role with deadpan aplomb.

2010

Antonio Pappano belies his reputation for carefully prepared, soft-grained music-making, encouraging the LSO winds to emulate the edginess of Soviet Russian playing styles. True, his cellist has a smaller sound than Rostropovich, something only partly disguised by close miking, yet she plays with such conviction that you feel she too could have been the inspiration for those great composers.
Chang's intense and aggressive style carries its own risks. Adopting in fast music speeds a notch swifter than the norm, Chang combines raw emotion with a structural grip that, in its way, is even more remarkable in one so young. No doubt some will find her playing OTT, her tone too lean, her approach inelegant. And the LSO is right there with her, as deeply attentive in the slow movement as in the composer's astringent, nagging brand of fireworks elsewhere in the piece.
The Cello Sonata is a less passionate utterance, though it too has its (quieter) attractions. This is Shostakovich trying his hand at a purer, relatively neutral idiom even before Stalin's direct intervention in his creative life. With Pappano at the keyboard the performance is sympathetic if less extraordinary than that of the main work, Chang's projection at times unduly vehement. Still in her early twenties, she is none the less a phenomenon.

May 2006

Adopting in fast music speeds a notch swifter than the norm, Chang combines raw emotion with a structural grip that, in its way, is even more remarkable in one so young. …the LSO is right there with her, as deeply attentive in the slow movement as in the composer's astringent, nagging brand of fireworks elsewhere in the piece.

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