SCHUBERT
Arpeggione Sonata (with music by Webern and Berg) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Dec/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "Music from two Viennas in a fine example of ear-catching programming. Romance seems to be the watchword in this acomplished duo's treatment of Schubert, though the album also includes... |
DEBUSSY / POULENC
Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud bring finesse and imagination to these two complementary French works." The Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2008 (Telegraph UK) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complices Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] "this is a genuine, single, sublime work of art, and to achieve this from such a multi-angled selection takes unusual artistry." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2020 |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Christian Beuse (bassoon) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni, La Notte, and so on, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than 27 concertos for the cello - an instrument which at the time was generally limited to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at... |
ALBAN BERG
Lyric Suite (with Schoenberg - Transfugured Night) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Ensemble Resonanz [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] The First World War, that crucible of every kind of artistic change, intervened between Berg's Lyric Suite (1925) and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899). On either side of that traumatic divide, each of the works refers to adulterous love. The poem... |
JOSEPH HAYDN / GEORG MATTHIAS MONN
Haydn/Monn: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] "a sense of seemingly effortless bravura to [Queyras'] playing, as well as superb technical control and intelligence. an extremely attractive proposition." (International Record Review) |
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Raphaël Imbert (saxophone), Pierre-François Blanchard (piano), Sonny Troupé (drums)
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
ELLIOTT CARTER
Carter: Late Works Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Colin Currie (percussion) / Birmingham Contemporary Music [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "Carter's very last, centenarian works...prove concise, poetic and delightfully mischievous as ever." BBC Music Award WINNER 2018 - Jury Award - Premiere |