Vasks: Presence

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There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: 88725423122
Label: Sony
Length: 60 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

27th November 2015
BBC Music Magazine

April 2016

Concerto Choice

Vasks: Concerto No. 2 for Cello and String Orchestra, "Klatbutne / Presence"

Work length35:02

Album only

Sol Gabetta (violoncello), Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (concert master)

I. Cadenza - Andante cantabile

Track length9:30

$1.30

$1.70

$2.00

II. Allegro moderato

Track length13:05

Album only

III. Adagio

Track length12:27

Album only

Vasks: Musique du Soir

Work length12:47

Album only

Sol Gabetta (violoncello), Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (organ)

Vasks: Grāmata čellam (The Book)

Work length12:46

$2.60

$3.40

$4.00

Sol Gabetta (violoncello)

I. Fortissimo

Track length5:21

$1.30

$1.70

$2.00

II. Pianissimo

Track length7:25

$1.30

$1.70

$2.00

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Recording of the Week, Sol Gabetta plays Pēteris Vasks

27th November 2015

David listens to cello works by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, performed by Sol Gabetta.

The main work on this CD is a world premiere-recording of Peteris Vasks’ Concerto No. 2 for Cello and String Orchestra "Klātbūtne / Presence" written for Sol Gabetta and commissioned by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Gabetta and the orchestra premiered this work in Amsterdam on October 25th 2012 to critical acclaim. Vasks himself was closely involved in the recording of the concerto for this album, and the piece also temporarily combines Sol‘s cello with her voice in a fascinating manner. Sol Gabetta can be heard singing in the third work of the album “Gramata Cellam”, a 13-minute piece for cello solo that Gabetta has often performed as an encore at her concerts worldwide. The album also includes Vasks’ “Musique du Soir” for cello and organ, which features Sol Gabetta’s mother Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, organ, a professional organ player, performing the organ part. The album was recorded with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, directed by their leader Candida Thompson.

Reviews

April 2016

There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes works like this Concerto so appealing, particularly when it is performed with such fervour by Gabetta and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

February 2016

[The concerto is] couched, for the most part, in a fearlessly diatonic idiom. Enviable concentration goes hand in hand with a strength, purity and serenity that held me from start to finish…[Presence] receives blisteringly dedicated and stunningly coordinated advocacy…the release as a whole, boasting superlative production values throughout, can still be confidently recommended to Vasks's many fans and newcomers alike

27th November 2015

the cello writing suggests an intuitive grasp of the instrument. We surely have the friendship between Vasks and Gabetta to thank for this – she evidently knows how to put across his music exactly the way he intends, and equally he clearly understands how to draw the best out of her with his writing.

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