CD:
Challenge Classics CC 72376 www.challengerecords.com
Music
For My Cello
Krzystof
Meyer: Cellosonate Nr. 2
Bertold Hummel: Fantasia I & II op.
77d & op. 97a
Hermann
Regner: 4 Abendlieder
Wilhelm Killmayer: Bayerischer Ländler;Kimbrisches
Lied mit Tanz
Mikis Theodorakis: East of the Aegean
Julius
Berger (Violoncello)
Aufnahme 2009
Zeitgenössische
Widmungen für Cello solo
Alle Werke der vorliegenden CD sind Julius Berger gewidmet.
Im ausführlichen Booklet erzählt er von der jeweiligen Entstehungsgeschichte
und seiner Beziehung zu den Komponisten. Wenn Julius Berger Konzerte gibt, tritt
irgendwann der Moment ein, da man wie in einer zweiten Wachheit aufschreckt, sich
der eigenen Selbstvergessenheit bewusst wird und den Cellospieler aus den Augen
verloren hat. Er spielt eines der ältesten Celli der Welt, das Violoncello
Andrea Amati aus dem Jahr 1566 - “König Charles IX.” und ist Professor
für Violoncello und Kammermusik am Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum der Universität
Augsburg.
Music For My Cello
Krzystof
Meyer: Cellosonate Nr. 2
Bertold Hummel: Fantasia I & II op. 77d &
op. 97a
Hermann Regner: 4 Abendlieder
Wilhelm Killmayer: Bayerischer
Ländler;Kimbrisches Lied mit Tanz
Mikis Theodorakis: East of the Aegean
Julius
Berger (Violoncello)
Recording:
2009
Booklet in German and English language
Mastercellist
Julius Berger is a champion of contemporary music and he is very closely connected
and works Together with composers. Composers love to dedicate their works for
cello to Berger: al cellist who doesn’t make music
but is music.
"These
were always the great moments in my life: when I held a work written especially
for me in my hands for the first time; when I tried to tune into mysteries and
hidden meanings with my cello; when the doors opened up to a new space that had
never been there before. The effect on me was always spellbinding. The horizontal
dimension of this path through life is transformed into a vertical one. Time stands
still, time becomes fundamental. This new birth holds in its hand the key to the
deepest and innermost feelings. Perhaps this is why Mikis Theodorakis or Bertold
Hummel fight to hold back their tears, perhaps this is why Wilhelm Killmayer seems
“unendingly” faraway, perhaps this is why Krzysztof Meyer or Hermann
Regner burst with joy as never before. – We embrace on the concert platform
and know that in this moment we have become “one” through music."
- Julius Berger in the linernotes of "Music For My Cello')