Siegfried Salomon - Cello Concerto in D Minor, Op 34

Siegfried Salomon

(3 August 1885 - 29 October 1962) was a Danish composer.

 

 Cello Concerto in D Minor, Op 34

 

The movements:
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante cantabile
III. Allegro giocoso

Cello: Erling Bloendal Bengtsson
The Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Thomas Jensen.

Composer Siegfried Salomon (1885-1962) in his 1922 Cello Concerto in D Minor conjures up a relatively conservative score that occasionally reminds me of late Schumann. Occasionally, the girth and form of the first movement seem to imitate aspects of the Dvorak Concerto.

 (conjures up …을 상기시키다  /girth 띠, 밴드)

 

The studio performance (16 June 1959) with Nielsen specialist Thomas Jensen (1898-1963) casts

a romantic ardor on the music, which in its lyrical outpourings, nods to the composer's studies in Leipzig and Paris. once again, the lustrous and burnished tone from Bengtsson's 1935 J.N. Frost instrument quite sails in poignant expressive style. The Andante cantabile proves eminently songful, a gentle addition to the repertory, with more sun than storms. Allego giocoso, the last movement invokes impish figures in skittish motion that might pay homage to Grieg or Svendsen. Another broad melody maintains the Salomon ethos for romantic ｅxpression.

 

 

 

Salomon was born in Copenhagen. In 1899 he entered the Conservatory in Leipzig and studied there for four years. He also spent some time in Paris studying with Paul Le Flem. From 1903 he worked as an orchestral cellist and violist and appeared as a soloist in Copenhagen, Paris and Stockholm. His greatest success as a composer and conductor was with the opera Leonora Christina which premiered at Det Kongelige Teater in 1926. The opera was successful due to its use of popular style and the performance of the soprano Tenna Frederiksen Kraft in the title role. His output includes two other operas, Duen og slangen (Doves and Serpents; 1925) and Dronning Dagmar (Queen Dagmar; 1928). Among his other works is a lovely Violin Concerto in g, opus 26 from 1916. He died in his native city of Copenhagen.

Born in Copenhagen, Bengtsson gave his first public performance there in 1936, when he was four years old. He was admitted at the age of sixteen to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, who engaged him as a teaching assistant in 1949. From 1950 to 1953, Bengtsson taught his own cello class at the Institute, before being appointed to the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 1980, he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. He returned to America in 1990 and taught at the University of Michigan School of Music until his retirement from academia in 2006.