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| |  | Duo: Helene Grimaud & Sol Gabetta
Two of today's most passionate and inspirational artists join forces in the recital programme that brought audiences to their feet at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad in Summer 2011. The chemistry between Hélène Grimaud and Sol Gabetta left critics and audiences nothing short of euphoric and this first duo recording captures the revelatory magic of their collaboration The album reprises the same programme the duo performed in Gstaad: Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Johannes Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No.1 in E minor and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. Hélène’s recordings have been best-sellers on the Yellow Label with more than 800,000 units sold altogether to date. Sol is also a best-selling, chart-storming artist, who is regarded as one of the great cellists of our day. “the duo's playful work on Schumann's “Drei Fantasiestücke” bears out both Grimaud's assessment and the pair's shared sensibilities. Brahms' Sonata for Piano and Cello No.1 in E minor, though possessed of more gravitas, is more lightly dealt with than I've heard before, while they bring a questing spirit to Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor” The Independent, 13th October 2012 *** “Gabetta plays the Schumann Drei Fantasiestücke and Brahms Sonata No 1 mellifluously, without revealing much beneath the surface. Grimaud is ever-attentive, but there’s little sense of two personalities striking sparks.” Financial Times, 3rd November 2012 **** “their quixotic musical personalities do match; there's a lightness of touch and an element of spontaneityin Gabetta's playing that corresponds to the impulsive aspects of Grimaud's pianism...You wouldn't always want Brahms like this, but it's still worthwhile.” The Guardian, 29th November 2012 **** “There is a lightness to all the performances that creates an engagingly lyrical sound that is pleasurable to listen to...That this disc falls down a little by way of its great delicacy and slight tentativeness...would not be in any way a criticism to most musical collaborations. That it is to Grimaud and Gabetta is simply testament to their potential as a truly incendiary collaboration.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 “Grimaud produces a context of almost orchestral depth and spaciousness into which Gabetta projects her eloquently refined lines...Debussy's riveting Sonata benefits from Grimaud's subtle palette of timbres, and the cellist's willingness to let her sound ring free....[for the Shostakovich] Gabetta finds her vicious streak, with thrilling results in the finale.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2013 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sol Gabetta plays Tchaikovsky, Saint Saens & Ginastera
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| |  | Elgar: Cello Concerto
The award winning Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta focuses her considerable talents on Late Romantic cello repertoire on her latest release on RCA Red Seal/Sony Music Entertainment. Gabetta’s sensational live recording of the Elgar: Cello Concerto is the centrepiece to a stunning new album from one of classical music’s most thrilling and successful young stars. Ms. Gabetta is joined on the works by Elgar, Dvorák and Respighi by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mario Venzago. In addition to Elgar’s concerto, Ms. Gabetta’s new release features three of Elgar’s miniatures, the introspective Sospiri and the light-hearted, romantic salon pieces Salut d’amour and La capricieuse, in new arrangements for cello and orchestra. The album also includes Antonín Dvorák’s Waldesruh and Rondo and Ottorino Respighi’s rarely recorded Adagio con variazioni. “I love the way she finds nobility tinged with melancholy in the glorious main theme [of the Elgar's first movement] which is delightfully underlined...Gabetta’s moving and beautifully played recording of the Elgar is one that I will certainly return to often.” MusicWeb International, 20th May 2013 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Il Progetto Vivaldi 1
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Part cello concerto, part film opera, Dutch composer Michel van der Aa’s Upclose explores the human condition through reflected and overlapping sounds, images and plotlines. On this DVD, recorded during a European tour in March 2011, it is performed by its dedicatees, the much admired young cellist Sol Gabetta and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, while Vakil Eelman plays the solitary elderly lady in the filmed segments. A solo cellist begins with a melancholy, yet insistent soliloquy. As the string orchestra behind her joins in, an image suddenly appears on screen. In the middle of a deserted concert stage, laid out exactly as for the concerto, an old woman is seen scribbling coded messages on sheets of paper. Her actions and those of the cellist come closer and closer until at the end they mimic one another, without ever completely connecting. Images and music leak from screen to stage and back again in a poetic exploration of the rituals of communication. Themes of virtual reality and plural identities have been present in Van der Aa’s music for ten years, but in the riveting Up-close he goes even further, folding sound and screen over and over on themselves until certainty slips completely from the audience’s grasp. Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year in 2010, the Argentine-French cellist Sol Gabetta impresses wherever she plays with her captivating interpretations, her passionate, fullbodied playing and her charismatic personality. A Sony recording artist, since 2006 she has directed the Solsberg Festival in Switzerland, her chosen home, and recently founded the Baroque orchestra, ‘Capella Gabetta’. DVD specifications: Region: 0 (All Regions) Duration: 31 mins Picture Format: PAL, 16:9 anamorphic widescreen Sound Format: PCM stereo, Dolby and DTS surround audio Subtitles: None “Michel van der Aa's enterprising synthesis of sound and vision continues with a work which transcends its hybrid nature in audacious fashion...Sol Gabetta has the crucial role - moving as she does with enviable dexterity between platform and film-screen, though without any impairing of either her commitment or musicianship in what is a fluent and dynamic account of an imaginative score.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Il Progetto Vivaldi 2
Sol Gabetta is the young female superstar of the cello. The Argentine-French cellist, who speaks six languages fluently, has captured the hearts of audiences in many countries with her playing and her charisma. Sol has received prestigious awards: she won three Echo Klassik prizes in Germany, received Argentina’s Gardel Prize as “artist of the year“ in three consecutive years and in 2010 won the prestigious Gramophone Award as “young artist of the year”. For her fifth recording for Sony Music and the first on the Sony Classical label, Sol Gabetta has teamed up with her own ensemble, the Cappella Gabetta, a small ensemble that plays baroque music on period instruments, which was founded by Sol Gabetta and her brother Andres Gabetta (lead violin). Sol and Andres have chosen this group of musicians so that they can make music among friends and explore works of the Baroque and Early Classical genres. On the new album, entitled Il Progetto Vivaldi 2, Sol Gabetta and Cappella Gabetta perform beautiful Italian cello concertos. Three deservedly popular concertos composed by Antonio Vivaldi are coupled with a rarely recorded sonata by Vivaldi and a charming cello concerto by Leonardo Leo, a Neapolitan composer. The CD also includes a world premiere recording, a cello concerto by Giovanni Benedetto Platti, an Italian composer who worked in Germany between 1730 and 1763. The cello concerto by Platti was recently discovered near Würzburg in the archive of a castle of Duke of Schönborn. The Vivaldi concertos which Sol Gabetta has chosen for this recording were also discovered in this archive. “Argentinian Sol Gabetta brings tremendous verve to five of Vivaldi’s effervescent concertos for cello in this scintillating ‘Progetto Vivaldi’ partnership…she digs into each phrase with infectious enthusiasm…” The Guardian. “Gabetta has a ravishing tone, especially in Vivaldi's soulful slow movements. The vigorous cello pyrotechnics of the finale of the G minor, RV 416 are negotiated with bravado to spare, and the febrile edginess of the A minor's end encourages sly banter.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2012 **** “Gabetta again plays with unerring precision, but also with a sure-footed interpretative authority...As before, it is the fertility of imagination undergirding every one of Gabetta's performances which marks this colelction out as being something exceptional...Highly recommended.” International Record Review, January 2012 “The cello-playing Count von Schonborn provides the connecting theme for Sol Gabetta's disc; his library contains some significant Vivaldi manuscripts, including the sole source of the sonata recorded here...With its finely worked contrapuntal tuttis and picturesque, melancholy Adagio, [Platti's] Concerto, in this vigorous, poised performance, proves to be a real find.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Mendelssohn in VerbierRecorded at Verbier Festival, July 2009
This series of TV programmes presents the very best of the 16th Verbier Festival with worldwide renowned artists such as Susan Graham, Martha Argerich, Yuri Temirkanov and Philippe Jaroussky. Furthermore, very gifted artists like Yuja Wang encounter renowned conductors like Kurt Masur to feature Mendelssohn's Third Symphony. These magnificent interpretations of three Mendelssohn works – two orchestral and one chamber – are given by the phenomenally talented young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang and other young performers. Praised in BBC Music Magazine for her ‘keen intelligence’ and ‘staggering technique’, Yuja Wang has also been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as ‘the sort of musician whose combination of talents appears in the world only rarely’. The Verbier Festival Orchestra consists of musicians hand-picked from every part of the world. Here they are directed by the doyen of German Mendelssohn conductors, Kurt Masur. BONUS: Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka performed by Yuja Wang, piano Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 89 mins (Concert) + 15 mins (Bonus: Concert Yuja Wang / Stravinsky) FSK: 0 “The mixture here of seriousness, high spirits and virtuosity suits Mendelssohn well...Wang excels with her fingerwork, light pedaling and discreetly intelligent touches of rubato...No praise is too high for her bonus performance of the Three Movements from Petrushka...In the Scottish Symphony Kurt Masur exerts an easy, grandfatherly authority over his young orchestra” BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Haydn, Hofmann & Mozart - Cello Concertos
Sol Gabetta (cello) Kammerorchester Basel, Sergio Ciomei The Argentinean cellist Sol Gabetta devotes her new recording to concertos from the Viennese Classical period. Joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Basel, she has coupled Haydn’s famous C major Concerto with two rarities, one by Haydn's contemporary Leopold Hofmann and the other by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Whereas Hofmann's concerto is an original work, the other concerto is an arrangement of Mozart's Oboe Concerto K314 by the Hungarian-American conductor Georg Szell. As Mozart left us not a single composition for solo cello, Szell collaborated with Mozart researcher Alfred Einstein to create a solo piece. However, Szell took the Andante from the Violin Concerto K470 for the slow movement. Sol Gabetta's recording, on the other hand, includes a version of the Oboe Concerto's Andante specially prepared by the harpsichordist and pianist of the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Sergio Ciomei. Hofmann was a highly regarded composer in his day, considered the equal of Haydn and Gluck. His Cello Concerto in D Major is roughly contemporary with the C major Concerto by Haydn which also appears on this disc. “…lovely performances from a cellist who combines a winningly smooth cantabile with a focused light tone and incisive rhythmic precision. The Basle Chamber Orchestra gives support which is handsomely coloured and stylishly clean-lined… making them a good match for their soloist and helping to create a happy overall impression of talented young artists having fun together and avoiding the routine.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Sol Gabetta - Cantabile
Hot on the heels of her recent Shostakovich release, Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta exploits her incredibly warn, rich tone in this programme of attractive arrangements of popular classical works. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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