THE BEATLES IN CLASSICS/ THE 12 CELLISTS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC

 

 THE BEATLES IN CLASSICS/ THE 12 CELLISTS OF THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC/

                                                                                   TELDEC-WARNER MUSIC KOREA, 1995

 

For the twelve cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, Easter Monday 1974 is a permanently engraved on

thei memories. It was on this day that they gave their first concert within the framework ok a large int-

national music festival, in the Mozarteum in Salzberg. As Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt subsequently

wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "The sound of this choir of strings hung suspended like

a bell over the astounded audience, which included Herbert von Karajan. The virtuoso playing by the

twelve Philharmonic cellists drew rapturous applausefrom all those listening. It was a firework display

of rare sounds and tonal combination never previously heard: bowing and plucking, col legno and

flageolet notes, delicate drumming, and countless subtle nuances ranging from sonorous bass to the

high octaves of the coloratura sopranos, surpassing all conventional notions of cello playing."

 

                                                                                                         Rudolf Weinsheimer(1995)