Paavo and Truls Mørk Re-team on New CD

Paavo once again joins his friend, celebrated Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk, on a new release for Virgin Classics, recorded last spring in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

According to the Virgin website: "In his second concerto disc with Paavo Järvi, Truls Mørk tackles one of the pinnacles of the romantic cello repertoire: Schumann’s eloquent Cello Concerto, recorded here for the first time on Virgin Classics. It is aptly coupled with two dark-hued works on Jewish themes. Bruch’s Kol Nidrei takes its title from the prayer that sues for God’s compassion and absolution, the sorrowful, plaintive cello mirroring the free improvisation of the cantor, while Bloch’s ‘Hebraic Rhapsody’ Schelomo (Solomon), inspired by the text of Ecclesiastes, expresses, in Bloch’s words, ‘the Jewish soul laid bare in the full depth of its national and human characteristics’."

Virgin Classics 5456642
Released in Europe 1/2005. Not yet available in the United States, but may be purchased through amazon.co.uk at the link above. You may also listen to audio clips on this page.