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ADOLFO ODNOPOSOFF (BUENOS AIRES, 22 FEBRUARY, 1917 – DENTON, TEXAS, 13 MARCH, 1992)

 

 

 

 

Adolfo Odnoposoff was an Argentine-born cellist of Russian-Jewish ancestry whose concert career spanned five decades across South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and the former USSR. He served as principal cellist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and with many of the leading orchestras of Latin America.

He appeared as a soloist with major orchestras under conductors including Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Juan José Castro, Rafael Kubelík, Víctor Tevah, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Carlos Chávez, Paul Kletzki, Willem van Otterloo, John Barbirolli, Eduardo Mata, Antal Doráti, Anshel Brusilow, Pablo Casals, and Enrique Gimeno. He also performed a work by Aram Khachaturian under the composer’s own direction.

He was the brother of the violinist Ricardo Odnoposoff.

Odnoposoff was born and spent his childhood in Argentina in a family of Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. At the turn of the 1920s–1930s, following his elder brother, he moved to Berlin, where he studied with Emanuel Feuermann and Paul Grümmer. In 1932 he relocated to Paris, where he continued his studies with Diran Alexanian.

The later course of Odnoposoff’s career was predominantly connected with Latin America. From 1938 to 1941 he served as principal cellist of the orchestra in Lima; from 1940 to 1944 he was a member of the Chilean Quartet; from 1944 to 1958 he was principal cellist of the orchestra in Havana; and from 1958 to 1961 he held the same position in Mexico City, where he subsequently taught at the conservatory. From 1964, at the invitation of Pablo Casals, he taught at the conservatory in Puerto Rico, and from 1975 he was a professor at the University of North Texas College of Music.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

Cello Sonatina (Jose Ardevol)

Piano – Berta Huberman

 

Dos Canciones Populares Cubanas, Para Cello y Piano

Composed By – Amadeo Roldan

Berta Huberman (piano)

 

Petroglifos Para Violín, Chelo Y Piano

Composed By – Héctor Campos Parsi

Violin – José Figueroa

Piano – Jesús María Sanromá

 

Reverie, Para Cello y Piano

Composed By – Pablo Casals

Piano – Berta Huberman

Violoncello – Adolfo Odnoposoff

 

Serenata Para Trio De Cuerdas

Composed By – Héctor Campos Parsi

Viola – Guillermo Figueroa

Violin – José Madera

Violoncello – Adolfo Odnoposoff

A1a Prologo

A1b Danza Incompleta

A1c Modo Triste

A1d Danza Completa

A1e Epilogo

 

Sonata elegíaca para chelo y piano

Composed By – Luis Antonio Ramírez

Piano – Berta Huberman (piano)