More By Artist: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op 54 / Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 80 Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] '[T]he use of an early 19th-century fortepiano, here a Streicher of 1847, brings textural clairty, enhanced by the exceptionally subtle and sensitive dialogue between the two superb string players.' (BBC Music) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto & Trio Op. 65 Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano), Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Almost twenty years ago, Isabelle Faust and Jiří Bělohlávek established a new milestone in the discography of Dvořák's Violin Concerto. The coupling, the tumultuous Trio in F minor, inaugurated the violinist's long and fruitful collaboration with... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Complete Cello Suites Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] "Here's another excellent performance of this pinnacle of the cellist's repertoire to add to over 50 currently available. Queryas is master of his instrument. Intonation is well-nigh impeccable...this is most warmly recommended for revealing new... |
CHOPIN / RACHMANINOFF
Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] "Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov somehow manage to contain the overgrowth and shape the profusion of ideas into a cultivated and warmly lit musical garden." Gramophone |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Sonatas for violoncello & basso Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), with Michael Behringer, Lee Santana, Christoph Dangel [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] "If you wanted one takeaway headline for this recording then it would be its sense of intimacy and immediacy; a quality we can mostly put down to the easy, loving familiarity with which Queyras handles this repertoire." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56 / Piano Trio, Op. 36 Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Debussy Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano), etc [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Chamber |
SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto in D minor / Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110 Isabelle Faust (violin) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] In the autumn of 1851 Schumann composed, in rapid succession, the two violin sonatas and, in the space of just seven days from 2 to 9 October, the Piano Trio no.3, Op.110. As always during his work, Schumann was oblivious to everything around him,... |
JOEL BONS
Bons: Nomaden Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Atlas Ensemble [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] "Nomaden can be regarded as world music and contemporary composition, accessible and challenging, reflective and upbeat. The listener is lead upon an absorbing journey. Highly recommended." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
KURTAG / KODALY / VERESS
Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "Altogether an intelligently laid-out disc, with interesting repertoire and magnificent playing and recording." BBC Music Magazine - March 2002 Performance***** Sound***** |
MARIN MARAIS
Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Twenty years after his harmonia mundi recordings, reviving the tradition of performing the great French harpsichord composers (Rameau, Couperin) on the piano, Alexandre Tharaud now joins forces with his longstanding partner Jean- Guihen Queyras to... |
JOSEPH HAYDN / GEORG MATTHIAS MONN
Haydn/Monn: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] "a sense of seemingly effortless bravura to [Queyras'] playing, as well as superb technical control and intelligence. an extremely attractive proposition." (International Record Review) |
JOSEF HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cello Concertos (with Monn - Concerto for cello, strings and harpsichord) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Freiburger Barockorchester / Petra Mallejans - director [ Harmonia Mundi Haydn Edition / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "Queyras benefits from the much more alert playing of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra: and in their account of the D minor central episode, the piece suddenly springs to life. (This) can confidently be recommended as a period-instrument choice." (BBC) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Don Quixote / Till Eulenspiegel Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After two memorable recordings devoted to Mahler's Third and Fifth symphonies, François-Xavier Roth continues his exploration of the major works premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas / Hungarian Dances Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ] Pianist Alexandre Tharaud and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras are long-established as a duo team, but this is the first time that Queyras has joined Tharaud for an Erato recording. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 5 Geister (with Hummel-Piano Trio No 4) Andreas Staier (pianoforte) Daniel Sepec (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "Anyone who has heard and admired Andreas Staier's bracing performances of 18th- and early-19th-century solo piano works, on a variety of historically appropriate keyboards, will be at home with this highly charged chamber-music playing." (The Guardian) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 6 & 7 "Archduke" Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine WINNER 2015 - Chamber GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto (with Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] "Queyras is a fine cellist, fluent technically and gifted with a flexibility of tone that can range from a warm richness to a resiny tang and to sweetness in the upper registers into which both Dvorak and Elgar take him." International Record Review |
VARIOUS / TRADITIONAL
Sunday Morning Sessions Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] In the 2nd and 3rd century B.C., the civilisation of Thrace was one of an adventurous and inquisitive people, open to exchange with other cultures, and as such, is rather a beautiful metaphor for the ensemble that has gathered around Jean-Guihen... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos / Four Seasons / Venice - The Golden Age Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Midori Seiler (violin) Xenia Loffler (baroque oboe) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi Key Artist & Ensemble Sets / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2015 ] For the first time in 3 CD sets, discover these major recording projects matured over many years by ensembles and musicians of harmonia mundi including Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's Vivaldi recordings. |
BEETHOVEN
Complete Works for Cello & Piano Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2014 ] "not to be missed...The playing here combines breadth and urgency with, for example, a touching tenderness in the simplicity of the slow introduction to the C major Sonata Op 102 No 1...It all adds up to a valuable set for admirers both of Queyras an |
SCHUBERT
Arpeggione Sonata (with music by Webern and Berg) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Dec/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "Music from two Viennas in a fine example of ear-catching programming. Romance seems to be the watchword in this acomplished duo's treatment of Schubert, though the album also includes... |
DEBUSSY / POULENC
Cello Sonatas Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud bring finesse and imagination to these two complementary French works." The Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2008 (Telegraph UK) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Complices Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] "this is a genuine, single, sublime work of art, and to achieve this from such a multi-angled selection takes unusual artistry." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2020 |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Christian Beuse (bassoon) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni, La Notte, and so on, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than 27 concertos for the cello - an instrument which at the time was generally limited to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at... |
ALBAN BERG
Lyric Suite (with Schoenberg - Transfugured Night) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Ensemble Resonanz [ Harnmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] The First World War, that crucible of every kind of artistic change, intervened between Berg's Lyric Suite (1925) and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1899). On either side of that traumatic divide, each of the works refers to adulterous love. The poem... |
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Raphaël Imbert (saxophone), Pierre-François Blanchard (piano), Sonny Troupé (drums)
Invisible Stream [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] Invisible Stream: the "unseen currents" are those that connect people and musical works by transcending styles or customary aesthetic and cultural boundaries. A feast of poetic expression organized by four key representatives of both the classical... |
ELLIOTT CARTER
Carter: Late Works Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Colin Currie (percussion) / Birmingham Contemporary Music [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "Carter's very last, centenarian works...prove concise, poetic and delightfully mischievous as ever." BBC Music Award WINNER 2018 - Jury Award - Premiere |
