RH-034 | 8CD | CHRISTINE WALEVSKA | private archive recordings

“the Beauty & the Bow” Christine Walevska has been center stage in the cello world ever since her first international concert appearances at the age of eighteen. Those early triumphs inspired the sort of accolades normally reserved for star performers of mature years. Typical of the tributes was the comment by the Los Angeles music critic Patterson Greene: “She parallels on the cello the singular persuasiveness of Fritz Kreisler on the violin.” Over four decades of concertizing across the globe she has played with orchestras throughout Germany, the United States, France, in every corner of Spain, Poland, Mexico, Central and South America (where she has brought music to every big city or small, wherever there is a concert hall with an orchestra or piano to accompany her), in Holland with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Hague, in the Concertgebouw, the Stockholm Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, Vienna, Italy, Prague, Cuba, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dresdener Philharmonic, concerts in Japan, Honk Kong, China and Taiwan. The cellos: a one-eight-size 1834 Bernardel, a 1852 Gand and since 1965 she plays a 1740 Bergonzi. "Dear Music Lovers, these are among my recorded live concerts which were hidden for years in my collection. Each of these recordings brings back memories, like the Hindemith which I recorded in Frankfurt at 9 AM having a concert the night before playing the Haydn D major Concerto in the South of Germany. My thanks to Rhine Classics team who envisioned this project. I dedicate this release to the memory of my father. Cariñosamente," Christine Walevska (August 15, 2024) Only the first 100 orders will contain the original autograph from the Artist!

CD1 | 79:44
BACH Cello Suite No.1 | Los Angeles, 1958
BACH Cello Suite No.2 | Washington DC, 1966
BACH Cello Suite No.3 | San José, 1958
BACH Cello Suite No.6: I. Prelude | Los Angeles, 1960
SANCAN Sonata for Cello and Piano (1961)
TCHAIKOVSKY Rococo Variations Op.33
BOLOGNINI Serenata del Gaucho
RAVEL Pièce en forme de habanera
Robert Parris | Washington DC, 14.IV.1966

CD2 | 76:53
HAYDN Divertimento (arr. Piatigorsky)
NIN Chants d’Espagne
Miguel Zanetti | RNE Madrid, 1964
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No.1 Op.33
Julio Malaval, OTM | Santiago del Chile, 5.V.1966
FRANÇAIX Fantaisie for Cello and Piano (1935)
GINASTERA Pampeana No.2 Op.21
Martin Imaz | Fukui, 22.X.1974
BLOCH Nigun
Akimi Fukuhara | Montreal, VI.2014

CD3 | 40:58
COUPERIN Pièces en Concert (arr. Bazelaire)
HAYDN Divertimento (arr. Piatigorsky)
PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C major Op.119
Robert Parris | Rio de Janeiro, 1966
original LP 33 rpm: ASC-1.010 ℗1966

CD4 | 40:31
DEBUSSY Cello Sonata in D minor
BOLOGNINI Echo Serenade | Gaucho Serenade
RAVEL Pièce en forme de habanera
WEBER Adagio and Rondò (arr. Piatigorsky)
CHOPIN Nocturne No.20 (arr. Piatigorsky)
CHOPIN Polonaise Brillante Op.3 (arr. Fournier)
Bruce Gaston | Los Angeles, 1967
original LP 33 rpm: Owl Records ORLP-14 ℗1967

CD5 | 73:38
BRAHMS String Sextet No.1 Op.18: II. Theme and Variations
BACH Cello Suite No.2: IV. Sarabande
BOLOGNINI Serenata del Echo | Serenata del Gaucho
DVORAK Cello Concerto Op.104: I. + II.
+ interview by André Vandernoot, 
Grand Orchestre Symphonique de la RTB | Bruxelles, 19.III.1968
POPPER Spinning Song Op.55/1
Harold Martina | Bogotà, 8.VIII.1973
PIAZZOLLA Adiós Nonino -Trio version- (arr. Bragato)
Manuel Rego, Antonio Agri | Buenos-Aires, 1982

CD6 | 70:37
SCHUMAN “A Song of Orpheus” Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra
Henri Temianka, CSS | Los Angeles, 4.X.1964
HINDEMITH Cello Concerto (1940)
Dean Dixon, HR SO | Frankfurt, 29.XII.1967
BLOCH ”Schelomo” Rhapsodie Hébraïque
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, NDR | Hamburg, 17.XI.1969

CD7 | 74:51
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto in C major Op.56
Henryk Szeryng, violin | Monique Duphil, piano 
Pedro Antonio Ríos-Reyna, OSV | Caracas, 21.VI. 1970
DVORAK Cello Concerto in B minor Op.104
Carlos Paita, ONF | Paris, 24.XI.1976

CD8 | 71:39
BACH Arioso in G (Cantata BWV 156)
BRAHMS Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor Op.38
BOLOGNINI Cello’s Prayer | Serenata del Echo
PIAZZOLLA Adiós Nonino -Duo version- (arr. Bragato)
CHOPIN Cello Sonata in G minor Op.65
Akimi Fukuhara | Tokyo, 10.VI.2010