Sol Gabetta & Bertrand Chamayou – Mendelssohn [2CD]

Sony Classical

£16.97

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: 19439934002
Barcode: 194399340028
Release Date: 19 Jan 2024
Genre: Classical

Sol Gabetta is one of the best and most successful cellists today, with a remarkable international career as a soloist and highly praised recordings, all of them bestsellers. Her recordings for Sony Classical have received numerous awards, including Gramophone, Echo Klassik and Diapason d'Or.

For this album Sol Gabetta teams up with excellent French pianist Betrand Chamayou, with whom she plays sold out concerts in major concert halls. The album features Mendelssohn's complete works for cello and piano (CD 1) and new, short pieces written by famous contemporary composers Wolfgang Rihm, Heinz Holliger, Francisco Coll and Jörg Widman specifically for this album, all of which were inspired by Mendelssohn’s beautiful Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109 (CD 2). The album was recorded at the famous new Philharmonie de Paris.

TRACKLISTING
TRACKLIST
CD 1
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Variations concertantes, Op. 17; MWV Q 19
01 Thema Variation
02 Variation I
03 Variation II
04 Più vivace Variation
05 Allegro con fuoco Variation
06 L’istesso tempo Variation I
07 L’istesso tempo Variation II
08 Presto ed agitato Variation
09 Tempo I. Coda: Più animato

Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45; MWV Q 27
10 Allegro vivace
11 Andante
12 Allegro assai
13 Assai tranquillo in B Minor, MWV Q 25 03:06

Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58; MWV Q 32
14 Allegro assai vivace 07:56
15 Allegretto scherzando 05:30
16 Adagio 04:06
17 Molto Allegro e vivace
18 Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109

CD 2
Jörg Widmann
01 Lied ohne Worte (2022)
for cello and piano

Heinz Holliger (*1939)
Lieder ohne Worte
From 7 Lieder ohne Worte (1994-95)
Arranged for cello and piano (2021)
02 (…fern…)
03 (…sam)
04 (Flammen…Schnee)
Francisco Coll
05 Dialog ohne Worte (2021)
for cello and piano
Wolfgang Rihm (*1952)
06 Lied ohne Worte
07 Verschwundene Worte