Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest

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CHAN 20227

Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest

CD UPC: 0095115222720

Release Date: February 2022
Originally recorded in 2021

Composer
Leoš Janácek

Composer
Zoltán Kodály

Composer
Antonín Dvorák

Composer
András Mihály

Composer
Viteszslava Kaprálová

Solo Cello cello
Laura van der Heijden

Solo Piano piano
Jâms Coleman

Producer
Jonathan Cooper

Engineer
Jonathan Cooper

Venue 24-27 July 2021
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

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Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest

LEOŠ JANÁCEK

Pohádka, JW VII/5 (1910, revised 1912,1913,1923)

11:52

(Fairy Tale)

for Cello and Piano

Con moto - Un poco più musso -

5:06

Con moto - Adagio - Con moto -

3:59

III

Allegro - Un poco meno mosso -

2:46

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY

Sonata, Op.4 (1909-10)

17:51

for Cello and Piano

Asszonyomnak (To My Wife)

Fantasia

7:55

Allegro con spirito

9:56

ANTONÍN DVORÁK

Als die alte Mutter, Op.55 No.4, B104, S73 (1880)

2:11

for Voice and Piano

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY

Mért is mondod, hogy nem szeretsz, Op. Post. No.1 (date uncertain)

2:12

(Why are you saying that you do not love me?)

from Three Songs to Poems by Béla Balász

fro Voice and Piano

Adapted for Cello and Piano by Laura van der Heijden

Vékony a pókháló, Op.1 No.9 (1907-09)

1:58

(Slender is a silk thread)

from Énekszó: dalok népi versekre (For Singing: Hungarian Folk Poetry)

for Voice and Piano

Adapted for Cello and Piano by Laura van der Heijden

ANDRÁS MIHÁLY

Mouvement (1963)

8:41

for Cello and Piano

Kodály Zoltánnak 80. születésnapjára

VITESZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ

10.

Navždy, Op.12 No.1 (1936-37)

2:57

(Forever)

from Tri pisne (Three Songs)

for High Voice and Piano

Paní Milade Kunderové

Adapted for Cello and Piano by Laura van der Heijden

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY

11.

Sonatina (1909)

9:16

for Cello and Piano

LEOŠ JANÁCEK

Sonata, JW VII/7 (1914-15, revised 1916-22)

18:31

12.

Con moto - Meno mosso -

5:20

13.

Ballada.

5:24

14.

III

Allegretto - Meno mosso -

2:41

15.

Adagio - Un poco più mosso -

5:05

Total time: 75:28

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Reviews

“…Laura van der Heijden and her Welsh piano partner Jâms Coleman present the music with a warm tone and strong expressiveness. In terms of playing technique, the musicians undoubtedly master the repertoire, sophistication and virtuosity are abundant …”

Dr Jürgen Schaarwächter – Klassik.com – 17 July 2024

**** Excellent Album

Jérémie Cahen – Classica magazine (France) – May 2022

“… The players clearly share a tangible musical understanding and rapport, and catch Pohádka’s ambivalent quality very neatly (after all, are not all fairy tales child-friendly glosses on darker terrors?). Their technical prowess comes to the fore in Kodály’s Sonata … The performances are very fine throughout.”

Guy Rickards – Gramophone magazine - April 2022

“… These works of complex tonality and emotional intensity, full of light, shade and plenty of darkness, are brought vividly to life by van der Heijden… and Coleman, whose rapport is clear in these beautiful performances. The recording is rich, warm and very well-balanced, allowing van der Heijden’s superb tone to weave effortlessly around Coleman’s piano.” ****

Lisa MacKinney – Limelight magazine.com – 13 April 2022

“… Van der Heijden’s remarkably effective adaptation of Janácek’s Violin Sonata closes an excellent disc.”

Terry Robbins – thewholenote.com – 4 February 2022

“… The interesting programming, engaging playing, an empathetic partnership and a convincingly real, immediate sound combine to make this a disc that’s worth seeking out.”

Janet Banks – The Strad – March 2022

Performance **** Recording *****

“The starting point for this delicious and distinctive Bohemian programme was Janácek’s Pohádka...Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman unleash its power in this big-boned reading, with its hair-trigger transitions from dreaming innocence to cataclysm… If Janácek is the fire that lit the programme. Kodály’s works for cello offer kinship and contrast. It’s a treat to hear his too-rarely performed Sonata Op. 60 … These performers bring sonorous depth and mystery to its long-limbed first movement, and spritely wit to its dancing finale…”

Helen Wallace – BBC Music magazine – March 2022

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