Shostakovich: Cello Concertos
Alban Gerhardt (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
If there’s a better recording of the Second Concerto out there, I haven’t heard it.
Shostakovich: Cello Concertos
Alban Gerhardt (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
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Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
If there’s a better recording of the Second Concerto out there, I haven’t heard it.
About
Alban Gerhardt writes admiringly of Rostropovich and the legacy of marvellous works he inspired, but on the evidence of these extraordinary accounts of two of them, he need fear no comparisons with his great Russian forebear.
Contents and tracklist
- Alban Gerhardt (cello)
- WDR Sinfonieorchester
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Alban Gerhardt (cello)
- WDR Sinfonieorchester
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Awards and reviews
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The Times Records of the Year2020
Jan/Feb 2021
If there’s a better recording of the Second Concerto out there, I haven’t heard it.
9th August 2020
Gerhardt, one of the finest [contemporary cellists] before the public, plays both works with an intensity, bravura and scrupulous attention to the score, honouring Rostropovich’s championship of these masterpieces without copying them...Fascinating complements to Rostropovich’s own, highly personal accounts of scores with which he is indelibly associated.
October 2020
A refreshingly individual approach from this most thoughtful of cellists… It is Gerhardt’s account of the Second in particular, its assertive logic and original profile, that deserves the most wholehearted recommendation.
