Person · Male
Pieter Wispelwey
cellist
- From
- Haarlem, Netherlands
- Since
- 1962–present
- Releases
- 46
About
Pieter Wispelwey (born 25 September 1962) is a Dutch cellist. In 1992, he was the first cellist to receive the Netherlands Music Prize, a government-awarded prize given to the most promising young musician in the Netherlands. He has come to be regarded as one of the world's leading performers and interpreters of both baroque and modern cello works.
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He plays a 1760 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini cello and a 1710 baroque cello by Pieter Rombouts.
Discography
Albums
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6 Suites for Cello Solo
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The Complete Sonatas for Pianoforte and Cello
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Cello Solo Sonatas
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Brahms: Sonatas for Violoncello & Piano
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The Three Cello Suites
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String Quintet in C major, op. 163
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6 Cello Sonatas
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Variations for Violoncello and Pianoforte
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Concerto for Cello & Orchestra in B minor
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Cello Concerto in C / Cello Concerto in D / Symphony no. 104 in D
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Three Suites for Cello Solo / Works for Cello and Piano
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Vivaldi Concerti
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Cello Sonatas
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Schumann / Hindemith
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One of a Kind
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6 suites per violoncello solo senza basso
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Cello Concertos
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Gamba Sonatas, Riddle Preludes, Baroque Perpetua
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Trio Sonatas
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D. Shostakovich: Concerto no. 1 for Cello and Orchestra / Z. Kodály: Sonata for Cello Solo, op. 8
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Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme / Andante cantabile / Saint‐Saëns: Cello Concerto no. 1 / Bruch: Kol Nidrei
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Three Suites for Violoncello Solo
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Sonatas
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Sonatas for Cello and Piano
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The Canticle of the Sun
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Arpeggione Sonata / 3 Sonatinas, op. 137
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Sonatas for Piano and Cello
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Dimitri Shostakovich: Concerto nr. 2 in G major for Cello and Orchestra, op. 126 / Benjamin Britten: Third Suite for Cello Solo, op. 87
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Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante / Tcherepnin: Suite for Cello Solo / Crumb: Sonata for Cello Solo
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Cello Symphony / Cello Suite no. 1
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Cello Sonatas
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6 Suites for Cello Solo
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Lalo & Saint-Saëns
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Rococo
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The Complete Duos / Trockne Blumen
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String Quintets Op.14 & Op.16
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Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)
Live
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Also known as
Peter Wispelway · Peter Wispelwey
Tags
- cellist
- dutch cellist
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- d9e0a084-82ae-4e84-8ff5-a832f720a194
- ISNI
- 0000000109653196
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