COMPANY: Melodiya
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten

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Alexander Ramm (cello)

Composers

Britten, Benjamin (1913–76)

Works

Britten: Suite No. 1 for cello solo, Op. 72
Britten: Suite No. 2 for cello solo, Op. 80
Britten: Suite No. 3 for cello solo, Op. 87
Britten: Suites for cello solo, Nos. 1-3

Melodiya presents a disc of Benjamin Brittens music for solo cello performed by Alexander Ramm. The most eminent English composer of the twentieth century who, after a two-hundred-year hiatus, again raised the musical tradition of Britain to the heights of the musical Olympus. The composers connections with Russian music and musicians were significant, but Rostropovich was the one with whom Britten had the closest friendly and creative contact. Under the influence of the performers art Britten returned to instrumental music, writing a cello symphony and a cello sonata for Rostropovich. The cycle of Suites for solo cello, which Dmitri Shostakovich ranked among the best chamber pieces, followed. Alexander Ramm is the first of the Russian musicians after Mstislav Rostropovich to turn to Benjamin Brittens suites for solo cello. Ramm is also the first to record them in Russia.

May 2019

Ramm, whose teacher was Natalia Shakhovskaya, one of Rostropovich’s outstanding pupils, delivers performances of depth, seriousness and meditative beauty…Intense introversion erodes momentum…Only in the Third, the most personal of the suites…does Ramm adopt a freer, bolder approach and finally reveals himself as a compelling communicator.