Falletta: Herbert – Cello Concertos no.1,2; Irish Rhapsody (24/96 FLAC)

Composer: Victor August Herbert
Performer: Mark Kosower
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Size: 1.09 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Cello Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 8
01. I. Allegro con spirito
02. II. Andante – Scherzo – Andante
03. III. Allegro

Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30
04. I. Allegro impetuoso
05. II. Lento – Andante tranquillo
06. III. Allegro

07. Irish Rhapsody

Recorded: 27-29 April 2015
Recording Venue: Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Irish-born Victor Herbert was one of the most celebrated names in American music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A cellist, conductor, and composer of light operas, he was also a recording artist. His two Cello Concertos are full of graceful melodies, the First having a songlike slow movement and a spirited Polonaise finale that earned praise at its 1885 première in Stuttgart. The Second Concerto, scored for a large orchestra, is more tightly constructed than the First. It was hearing this work that inspired Herbert’s boss at the National Conservatory in New York, Antonín Dvořák, to write his own great B minor Cello Concerto.