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Antonín Kraft - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi

Antonín Kraft - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos

Awards:

The partnership proves to be exceptional, Minasi eliciting both honed and dynamically varied timbre from the ensemble...Queyras is equally compelling, adopting a beautifully sculpted melodic...

Antonín Kraft - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi

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The partnership proves to be exceptional, Minasi eliciting both honed and dynamically varied timbre from the ensemble...Queyras is equally compelling, adopting a beautifully sculpted melodic...

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Moving from the style galant to the Age of Revolutions, this album is an invitation to discover half a century of the cello concerto’s history. A few years after a sensational first volume devoted to C.P.E. Bach, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Riccardo Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz pay tribute to the hypersensitivity of the cello and honour with panache the transcendental virtuosity of the unjustly overlooked Antonín Kraft!

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro aperto
Track length10:38
II. Romance. Andante
Track length5:12
III. Rondo alla Cosacca. Moderato
Track length7:48
I. Allegretto
Track length8:15
II. Adagio
Track length6:54
III. Allegro assai
Track length6:28

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Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    October 2024
    Concerto Choice
  • International Classical Music Awards
    2025
    Nominated - Concertos

October 2024

The partnership proves to be exceptional, Minasi eliciting both honed and dynamically varied timbre from the ensemble...Queyras is equally compelling, adopting a beautifully sculpted melodic line adorned with light elegant bowing that feathers the phrase.

October 2024

Ensemble Resonanz – period manners on (mainly) modern instruments – once again provide confident, driving accompaniment, both in the Kraft and in the more genteel, lyrical B flat Concerto of CPE Bach.

The New York Times 26th September 2024

Written around the turn of the 19th century, [the Kraft] harks back to the style of a few decades earlier, but without any staleness...the finale — a “Rondo alla Cosacca” with an elegant cast over its folkish robustness — is a hearty showcase for Queyras’s rich tone and easy virtuosity, down to the wittily understated ending.
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