N. Myaskovsky. Cello concerto Op. 66 (1945). J. Albarés, violoncello. P. González, conductor. OSRTVE

N. Myaskovsky. Cello concerto Op. 66 (1945). J. Albarés, violoncello. P. González, conductor. OSRTVE

Live concert. 1st April 2022
Teatro Monumental, Madrid

The Cello Concerto is now Miaskovsky’s most popular work. It was composed between 1944-45 and dedicated to Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, the leading Soviet cellist and a soloist and chamber player of renown who premiered it in Moscow on 17 March 1945. As with the two Cello Sonatas so with the two Concertos - there is, in a sense, far less to say about the Cello Concerto than the earlier work. Its pervasively elegiac qualities were never in dispute, its compositional date fed the sense of reflection and loss, its emotional similarity with the Elgar Concerto has often been remarked upon (at least by British critics) and the existence of Rostropovich’s pioneering recording all fused to promote the work as a valedictory summation of Miaskovsky’s compositional life and a peak of his late style stripped of fanfare and grandiosity.
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