• Most Respected Classical Music Platform
  • #classicalForever
TOP
OUT NOW | Cellists Blaise Déjardin & Kee-Hyun Kim's New CD: 'Mozart: New Cello Duos' [LISTEN] - image attachment

OUT NOW | Cellists Blaise Déjardin & Kee-Hyun Kim's New CD: 'Mozart: New Cello Duos' [LISTEN]

Opus Cello has announced the release of cellists Blaise Déjardin and Kee-Hyun Kim's new album: 'Mozart: New Cello Duos'

Opus Cello, a newly-formed label dedicated to the development of new quality repertoire for cello ensembles, has this month announced the release of cellists Blaise Déjardin and Kee-Hyun Kim's new album: 'Mozart: New Cello Duos'.

The disc features two new duo cello arrangements of Mozart's G Major and B-Flat Major Duos, originally scored for violin and viola - plus a newly-premiered arrangement for two cellos of Mozart's Piano Variations on 'Ah vous-dirai-je Maman' (aka “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”).

''Since I founded Opus Cello in 2013, I have been highly selective in the quality of the pieces I would consider arranging ... I wanted this first album to have true musical depth and go beyond the novelty of recording new arrangements for two cellos ..." Blaise, who serves as Principal Cellist with the Boston Symphony has told The Violin Channel.

"I knew my dear friend Kee-Hyun Kim would be the perfect partner for this project, bringing in both a stellar cello technique and the musical depth of a great chamber musician,' he has said.

''Mozart did not write many things specifically for the cello - there are no sonatas, no concertos, no solo pieces ... one gets a sense of how he would write for the instrument in the virtuosic, yet expressive, passages in his late string quartets but to have three whole arrangements of masterpieces by Mozart should delight any cellist who loves his music," Kee-Hyun has said.

 

Mozart: New Cello Duos

Blaise Dujardin, Cello

Kee-Hyun Kim, Cello

Label: Opus Cello

Release Date: June 21, 2019

upcoming events

may 2025

12mayAll Day03junPrague Spring International Music Festival(All Day) Rudolfinum, Alšovo nábř. 79/12, 110 00 Staré město-Staré Město, CzechiaEvent Type :Other

12mayAll Day03junPrague Spring International Cello Competition(All Day) Rudolfinum, Alšovo nábř. 79/12, 110 00 Staré město-Staré Město, CzechiaEvent Type :competitions Event TagsPrague Spring International Violin Competition,violin competition

24mayAll Day08junSendai International Violin Competition(All Day) Hitachi Systems Hall Sendai (Sendai City Youth Cultural Center), 3-27-5, Asahigaoka, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Pref., 981-0904, JapanEvent Type :competitions Event Tagscompetition,violin

25mayAll Day06junMontreal International Voice Competition(All Day) Event Type :competitions Event TagsMontreal International Piano Competition,Piano Competition

june 2025

01junAll Day13International Conducting Competition Rotterdam - Final Round(All Day) de Doelen, Schouwburgplein 50 3012 CL RotterdamEvent Type :competitions Event Tagscompetition,conductor

06junAll Day12Khachaturian International Conducting Competition(All Day) Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, 46 Mesrop Mashtots Ave, Yerevan, ArmeniaEvent Type :competitions Event TagsKhachaturian International Competition,violin competition

14junAll Day29Sendai International Piano Competition(All Day) Hitachi Systems Hall Sendai (Sendai City Youth Cultural Center), 3-27-5, Asahigaoka, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Pref., 981-0904, JapanEvent Type :competitions Event Tagscompetition,piano

CONTACT US
x

Get ALL your latest classical music news conveniently by EMAIL

Free – and trusted by 2 million+ readers monthly