Vieuxtemps: Cello Concertos (with works by Ysaÿe)

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HENRY VIEUXTEMPS
Vieuxtemps: Cello Concertos (with works by Ysaÿe)
Alban Gerhardt (cello), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)

[ Hyperion The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 5 / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 10 February 2015

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Hyperion's blossoming Romantic Cello Concerto series welcomes back German virtuoso Alban Gerhardt for this sixth volume. Henry Vieuxtemps and Eugène Ysaÿe 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 Ysaÿe 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 Caballé-Domenech, making his Hyperion conducting debut.

"Alban Gerhardt is one of the rising stars of the cello world, and has featured a number of times in this series and on this label. The booklet notes by Nigel Simeone are very informative, and the sound quality is as you would expect from this source. An essential purchase? No. A valuable release, worth your investment? Absolutely." (MusicWeb April 2015)

""[the Vieuxtemps works] certainly know their way round the cello and are characterised by strength of ideas, a supple expressiveness and a sure dramatic instrinct. So much so that it is hard to see why they have not entered the mainstream repertoire...these performances...never fail to hold one's attention." (Gramophone March 2015)

"Vieuxtemps seems to have been able to enter the expressive and technical world of the cello with an instinctive ease...Gerhardt plays them with affection and terrific aplomb, echoed by Vieuxtemps's Belgian countrymen in the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under the spirited baton of the Spanish conductor Josep Caballé-Domenech." (Daily Telegraph)

Tracks:

Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 46 [24'59]
Cello Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 50 [21'55]
Méditation in B minor 'Poème' Op 16 [11'16] Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Sérénade in A major Op 22 [6'56] Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)