Performance ***** Recording ****
"... We have Eckart Runge to thank for this first recording of his Cello Concerto No. 1; Kapustin entrusted the score to his ten years ago... brought alive here by the hugely versatile Runge and a slick partnership with the Berlin Radio Orchestra. Leaving aside the moments of cliché, the intimate interplay between rhythm section, brass and cellist has crackling spontaneity.. It's an ideal vehicle for Runge, a regular jazz improviser ... Schnittke's almost contemporaneous concerto (1986) opens up a vast sonic theatre... Conductor Frank Strobel and Runge, a vivid advocate, make a compelling case."