Another new disc getting its first outing [and incredibly this Saint-Saens Cello Concerto makes its debut in my Blog too!], i remember way back i had a tape of several Cello Concertos, i believe it was Schumann / Lalo / Saint-Saens, or Offenbach, something like that, and i didn't like it, they didn't seem to fit the mould of Dvorak and Elgar, but now i've fallen for these Cello Concertos, and it means i'm always on the lookout for other worthy versions, hence the entrance of this disc, i like the programme, i like the idea of the Bruch piece, a work that i don't know well, and yes i enjoyed its acquaintance today [very much like some of his Scottish Fantasy], and on first listen i find it hard to pinpoint any uniqueness from any other disc of the same music, so the jury is out, and it's always the Composer / work i listen to foremost on first go, and then later i can start listening to Artists / interpretations, so today was just basking in this lovely music, listening to Saint-Saens rather than Haimovitz / Levine.
Matt Haimovitz is Israeli i guess, born in 1970, making him 42 today, but his parents moved to America when he was five, and i now believe he lives in Canada, he made this recording in 1988 when he was only 17, and you can see the boyish looks in the photograph [by Christian Steiner], a nice inventive shot of Haimovitz and Levine, with the cello between them, the black background lends a spotlit quality to the shot, nice colours.
Matt Haimovitz is Israeli i guess, born in 1970, making him 42 today, but his parents moved to America when he was five, and i now believe he lives in Canada, he made this recording in 1988 when he was only 17, and you can see the boyish looks in the photograph [by Christian Steiner], a nice inventive shot of Haimovitz and Levine, with the cello between them, the black background lends a spotlit quality to the shot, nice colours.
