Selaocoe
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Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary... —
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Songlines, Top of the World, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Newcomer
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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Selaocoe inhabits a captivating sphere of spontaneous, mercurial creativity...In Selaocoe’s hands the cello is a shape-shifter...Song is the dominant form: everything flows from his own extraordinary... —
Awards:
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Songlines, Top of the World, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Chamber Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Newcomer
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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The result is powerful, inventive and irresistibly enjoyable...This is an utter delight of an album, offering a potent reminder of the life-affirming power of music to bring joy, and to begin... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Classical Without Borders
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The third album from the Hermes Experiment again shows what a liberating force in contemporary music this ensemble have become… The question is no longer why composers would choose to write... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, Concept Album
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Selaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Special offer. Gaïa
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano), Ayanna Witter-Johnson (cello), Ludovico Einaudi (piano), Frank Braley (piano), Olivia Belli (piano), Abel Selaocoe (cello), Sarah Rebecca (vocals), Capucelli
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Four Spirits
RecommendedAbel Selaocoe (cello, voice), Bernhard Schimpelsberger (percussion), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
elaocoe is a breathtakingly vibrant artist who has a poignant understanding of the umbilical cord between music, community and spirituality... It's a quasi-scat style that at times recalls Ella... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Concerto Choice
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Most of these pieces work really well, though it occasionally feels as though the music is concentrated on sound effects, rather than coherent phrases that could be developed into something... —
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