Alban Gerhardt; Josep Caballe-Domenech: Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Release Date: 01 February 2015
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571177908
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Vieuxtemps
Description
Hyperion’s blossoming Romantic Cello Concerto series welcomes back German virtuoso Alban Gerhardt for this sixth volume. Henry Vieuxtemps and Eugène Ysaye are of course best known for their blistering pyrotechnics on the violin, but each of this eminent teacher-and-pupil pairing also wrote two works—little known today, alas—for cello and orchestra, and what a revelation they are. The two Vieuxtemps Concertos contain all the elements familiar from their famous violin counterparts—long-arched melodies alongside moments of outrageous virtuoso demands. The Ysaye works are shorter and make ideal companions.
Gerhardt rises to the formidable challenges presented by these composers. Sympathetic orchestral support comes from the Royal Flemish Philharmonic (compatriots of the two composers) and Josep Caballe-Domenech, making his Hyperion conducting debut.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Walter Weller; Various Orchestras
Tomas Vrana, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Gabor Kali
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Riccardo Chailly
La Monnaie Chorus; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra; Kazushi Ono; Jessica Niles; Lisa Willems; Sandrin
Kammerorchester Basel; Giovanni Antonini
Jascha Horenstein
Francois Leleux, Lisa Batiashvili, HR-Sinfonieorchester, Andres Orozco-Estrada
Daniel Ottensamer, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Christoph Traxler, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St
