Utwory na płycie:

• Selections from Romeo & Juliet - Introduction
• Selections from Romeo & Juliet - Young Juliet
• Selections from Romeo & Juliet - Dance of the Knights
• Selections from Romeo & Juliet - Balcony Scene
• Selections from Romeo & Juliet - Mercutio
• Selections from Romeo & Juliet - Death of Juliet
• Sonata for cello and piano in G Minor, Op. 19 - I. Lento - Allegro moderato
• Sonata for cello and piano in G Minor, Op. 19 - II. Allegro scherzando
• Sonata for cello and piano in G Minor, Op. 19 - III. Andante
• Sonata for cello and piano in G Minor, Op. 19 - IV. Allegro mosso
• Suite Italienne “Pulcinella” (1925 version) - I. Introduction
• Suite Italienne “Pulcinella” (1925 version) - II. Serenata
• Suite Italienne “Pulcinella” (1925 version) - III. Tarantella
• Suite Italienne “Pulcinella” (1925 version) - IV. Gavotte con due variazioni
• Suite Italienne “Pulcinella” (1925 version) - V. Minuetto - Finale

Sergei Prokofiev:
Selections from Romeo and Juliet (arr. Vadim Borisovsky):
Introduction
Young Juliet
Dance of the Knights
Balcony Scene
Mercutio
Death of Juliet

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Sonata for cello and piano in G Minor, Op. 19 (arr. Vadim Borisovsky)

Igor Stravinsky:
Suite Italienne “Pulcinella” (1925 version) (transcription for viola and piano by Jesus Rodolfo)

Violist Jesus Rodolfo makes his PENTATONE debut, accompanied by pianist Min Young Kang, with an album showcasing three iconic 20th-century Russian composers who all left their homeland: Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky. Rodolfo presents selections of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata in G Minor in arrangements by Vadim Borisovsky, while Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne can be heard in his own transcription for viola and piano. The pieces performed revolve around love, decency, hope and optimism prevailing against mortality, mistrust, injustice and uncertainty. Within the context of a world slowly respiring from a severe pandemic, this has become a recording about the importance of the perseverance of hope, determination and love in the face of death and uncertainty.

Acclaimed for his exhilarating, passionate performances, innate musicality and technical prowess, Spanish violist Jesús Rodolfo has been praised by The New York Times Digest as "a star whose light transcends the stage."

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This album was recorded on August 5th to 7th 2020, at NV Recording Studio, NJ, USA. Jesus Rodolfo performs on the only exact replica of the ornamented Stradivarius Viola, the “Spanish Court”, originally commissioned by King Philip V in 1696.