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Product Identifiers
Record LabelBis
UPC7318590023303
eBay Product ID (ePID)10046073342
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2020
GenreClassical Artists
ArtistGordon / Moldrup / Dahl
Release TitleCello Libris
Dimensions
Item Height0.20 in
Item Weight0.14 lb
Item Length5.49 in
Item Width5.06 in
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Number of Discs1
NotesDividing his time between the United States and the United Kingdom, the composer Geoffrey Gordon writes music that has been described as 'darkly seductive' (New York Times), 'richly satisfying' (BBC Music Magazine) and 'iridescent and fierce' (The Chicago Tribune). The present album brings together three of his recent works, all composed between 2013 and 2018 for the soloist recording them here, the Danish cellist Toke Møldrup. In several of his works, Gordon takes his inspiration from other art forms - sculptures by Giacometti, a self portrait by Warhol, a children's picture book by Maurice Sendak. The works gathered here are inspired by or reactions to three literary masterworks. The 'creative blueprint' for the opening work, the Cello Concerto, is the novel Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann. Organized into a Prologue and Seven Episodes, the work traces the progress of Mann's protagonist Adrian Leverkühn from innocence to madness, with the cello both embodying and (occasionally) commenting on the proceedings. For this recording, Møldrup receives the support of the Copenhagen Phil and conductor Lan Shui. In the score of Fathoms, Gordon's sonata for cello and piano, each of the five movements is headed with a quotation from Shakespeare's The Tempest which sets the scene for the musical impression that follows. Here Møldrup is joined by the American pianist Steven Beck. The amply-filled album closes with Ode to a Nightingale, with the words of John Keat's immortal poem heard from the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir, and given emphasis by Toke Møldrup's obbligato cello.