Label: Sony Classical
Release date: 6/1/2010
Saint-Saëns: Der Schwan
Paganini: Andante Cantabile
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Auf den Flügeln des Gesanges
Saint-Saëns: Allegro Appassionato
Fauré: Elegie
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hummelflug
Schubert: Ave Maria
Paganini: ‘Moses’ Variations
Raff: Cavatine Op. 85, Nr. 3
Glasunov: Melodie Op. 20
Kreisler: Farewell to Cucullain
Gluck: Melodie aus ‘Orpheus’
Wagner: Träume aus ‘Wesendonck-Lieder’
Piazzolla: Oblivion
Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Helmut Branny
Recording of the Week: Financial Times Deutschland
“…‘My Tunes II’ – a recording with the musician’s favourite melodies has the potential to deeply affect the listener. The cellist…proves once more how closely the instrument resembles the human voice. The sound is beautiful – it creates the longing and melancholy of Wagner’s Traüme from the Wesendonk-lieder, with Mendelssohn and Paganini, it sings and with Fauré it cries. Vogler’s arrangement of Schubert’s ‘Ava Maria’ and Piazzolla’s Oblivion are excellent and Gluck’s ‘Orpheus’ melody is bitter-sweet.”