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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917294927 |
Catalogue number CC 72949 |
Release date 21 April 2023 |
""The Saint-Saëns is a gorgeous, compact cello concerto and I always have lots of fun playing it. It has everything, from the stormy beginning to beautiful lyric themes, a balletic middle movement, and the melancholic and fiery finale. This year, we are also celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edouard Lalo. It is quite exciting to present his cello concerto which is somewhat forgotten, not often played, extremely beautiful, dramatic, with beautiful melodies with a Spanish touch… and a piece that is very dear to me." Maja Bogdanović"
The Strad, 31-5-2023"The Saint-Saëns is a gorgeous, compact cello concerto and I always have lots of fun playing it. It has everything, from the stormy beginning to beautiful lyric themes, a balletic middle movement, and the melancholic and fiery finale. This year, we are also celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edouard Lalo. It is quite exciting to present his cello concerto which is somewhat forgotten, not often played, extremely beautiful, dramatic, with beautiful melodies with a Spanish touch… and a piece that is very dear to me."
Maja Bogdanović
The Strad, 31-5-2023
The Saint-Saëns concerto shines in new colors in a vital and particularly flexible interpretation. Bogdanovic’s enchantingly lyrical but always excitedly communicative playing is in constant dialogue with the orchestra. Even in the Lalo concerto, this results in a fine performance full of style and substance – a masterstroke, considering how many great interpreters have already shipwrecked in this work.
Pizzicato, 22-4-2023
It is a live recording, in which the bronze cello is balanced against the silver-white sounding orchestra. With the first bars of Saint-Saëns' concerto, Bogdanović already has you captivated: after the chord like a stab through the orchestra, she takes the floor with her deep, shimmering tone and then in the yearning middle section and the smoldering finale she will keep you enthralled.
De Volkskrant, 13-4-2023