Sol Gabetta Live (Elgar & Martinu Cello Concertos)
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EDWARD ELGAR / BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Sol Gabetta Live (Elgar & Martinu Cello Concertos)
Sol Gabetta (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker. Sir Simon Rattle & Krzystof Urbanski
[ Sony Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 8 February 2018
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Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta (who starred in this year's first night of the Proms) releases this album with Sir Simon Rattle, Krzystof Urbanski and the Berlin Philharmoniker. Featuring two treasures of the cello repertoire, Gabetta places Elgar's stunning Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 alongside Martinů's first cello concerto, H. 196
"Gabetta's playing is intense and searching, less introspective than some performances in the Adagio, perhaps, but epic in scale in the outer movements, and always keenly responsive...Gabetta's vivid, pulsating account of the Martinů concerto, which went through a quarter of a century of revisions before the definitive 1955 version she plays here, with Krysztof Urbański conducting. She finds real depth and intensity in it, both in the slow movement and in the introspective episode that interrupts the finale's headlong rush." (Guardian)
"Gabetta's handling of Martinů's life-affirming First Cello Concerto...embraces the gamut of colours and technical jinks called for with what sounds like genuine relish. This is superb cello-playing and Krzysztof Urbański directs a vital and sensitive accompaniment." Gramophone
Tracks:
Elgar:
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Martinu:
Cello Concerto No. 1, H.196
