Raphael Wallfisch, the cellist on this recording, played chamber music with Jascha Heifetz during his studies with Gregor Piatigorsky in California.
Critical Reception
Bernhard Romberg was once considered 'one of the most significant players of the violincello on earth, and the foremost among them as a composer and connoisseur of the arts'.
Composer Biography
An anecdote suggests that Romberg once found the cello part of Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 18, No. 1, unplayable and threw it aside.
Instruments
Raphael Wallfisch performs on a 1733 Montagnana cello known as the 'Ex-Romberg'.
Composer Biography
Bernhard Romberg, the composer, was a colleague of Beethoven in the court orchestra of the Elector of Cologne in Bonn.
Composer Biography
Bernhard Romberg and his cousin Andreas, both child prodigies, undertook concert tours with their fathers and later joined the court orchestra of the Elector of Cologne.
Critical Reception
Even as late as 1859, Romberg's cello concertos were considered the 'sole classical standard of the violoncello literature', despite contributions from Haydn and Schumann.
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