Alisa Weilerstein Transfigured Night – Haydn and Schoenberg CD review - captures each shift of colour

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Weilerstein/Trondheim Soloists

At first glance, the works on cellist Alisa Weilerstein’s new release are odd discmates: the cool classicism of Haydn’s Cello Concertos next to the feverish high romanticism of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, or Transfigured Night. You might expect a jarring dislocation between styles; instead, there’s a sense of balance, thanks to performances that revel in a sense of chamber-music give and take, of transparency and of natural, unforced dialogue between instruments.

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