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Anner Bylsma

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A memorial release. The three albums that the great gut-string cellist Anner Bylsma, who died in July 2019, recorded for PHILIPS, gathered on two discs. First time as a set, newly remastered from the original master tapes held in the Netherlands.Anner Bylsma died on 25 July 2019 at the age of 85. This set brings together on two discs the three unusual albums of Romantic and later repertoire that he recorded for PHILIPS between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Bylsma, who was principal cello of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1962 to 1968, also recorded Chopin’s Cello Sonata, Debussy’s Sonata and works by Reger and Hindemith. That a cellist so strongly identified with the Baroque should have taken part in albums of Romantic and later music – Messiaen included – is fascinating, and this memorial release puts the fact in the spotlight.Although all three albums were issued on LP in Japan,