Carmine Miranda
Yesterday, Navona Records released a new album featuring the young Venezuelan born Italian-American cellist Carmine Miranda. This recording of the Schumann and Dvořák concerti with the Moravian Symphony Orchestra and Petr Vronský (NV6034) was recorded over two days in June 2015 in the Czech Republic, with state of the art equipment and audio engineering. Twenty-six-year-old Miranda, who has spent his career so far mastering these concertos, was also recently published in the March 2016 Musical Times, writing in 'Decoding the Schumann Cello Concerto' about his discovery of secret codes hidden within the pages. He makes a compelling case that Robert Schumann's concerto is brimming with embedded codes and underlying meanings which, when viewed together, point to something very different to the usual vision of this work. Miranda's take is different from other contemporary interpretations - he deliberately follows historical traditions of tempi, dynamics and phrasing, but Schumann's musical intentions are interpreted as a series of internal conflicts and conversations between solo cello and orchestra. In many ways, Dvořák's explosive concerto marks the coalescence and arrival of the cello concerto, which matured at the end of the nineteenth century, with other examples in the genre from Camille Saint-Saëns, Édouard Lalo and Edward Elgar. Here too Miranda seeks to ramp up the emotionally-charged content, creating new and striking contrasts unheard in other recorded interpretations.
Information: www.carminemiranda.com
Posted: 11 June 2016
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