Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – The Romantic Cello Concerto 6 – Vieuxtemps: Cello Concertos; Ysaÿe: Méditation & Sérénade (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – The Romantic Cello Concerto 6 – Vieuxtemps: Cello Concertos; Ysaÿe: Méditation & Sérénade (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.

The sixth volume of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Cello Concerto’ series lights upon two works by the celebrated nineteenth-century Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps. Championed here by Alban Gerhardt, the music shows that Vieuxtemps, perhaps more familiar through his seven violin concertos, possessed also a sensibility for the sonority, technical scope and colour spectrum of the cello. If the First Concerto of 1876 was apparently composed without any particular cellist in mind, the Second of a couple of years later was conceived for Joseph Servais (1850 85), whose father François (1807 66) was responsible for putting the Belgian cello school on the map much as Vieuxtemps did for the violin. If the two cello concertos are not perhaps as exploratory in terms of technique and structure as some of Vieuxtemps’s violin concertos, they certainly know their way round the cello and are characterised by strength of ideas, a supple expressiveness and a sure dramatic instinct. So much so that it is hard to see why they have not entered the mainstream repertoire in the same way as, say, the Saint-Saëns concertos have.

Heinrich Schiff made the first recording of the Vieuxtemps concertos back in the 1980s, since when nobody else seems to have risen to the challenge until now; but these performances by Gerhardt with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under Josep Caballé-Domenech never fail to hold one’s attention. The fill-ups are by the Vieuxtemps pupil Eugène Ysaÿe—more cello music by a violinist but in the Méditation and Sérénade revealing a confident, alluring touch. –Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone

Tracklist:
01. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 46 – 1: Allegro moderato (12:50)
02. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 46 – 2: Andante (05:05)
03. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 46 – 3: Allegro (07:03)
04. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Cello Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 50 – 1: Allegro (10:18)
05. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Cello Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 50 – 2: Adagio (05:34)
06. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Cello Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 50 – 3: Allegretto con moto (06:01)
07. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Méditation in B minor ‘Poème’, Op 16 (11:15)
08. Alban Gerhardt, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech – Sérénade in A major, Op 22 (06:56)

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