Concertos, Cello Concertos, Saint-Saëns (composer)
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns - Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedChristian Poltéra (cello) & Kathryn Stott (piano)
Why do these sonatas so rarely appear in recitals? Saint-Saëns's sensuous poeticism and ingenious craftsmanship are wonderfully combined in them. Despite Poltéra's elegance, it is the more... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
and other works
Truls Mørk (cello), Louis Lortie (piano), Hélène Mercier (piano) & Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
[Mørk's] noble command is ideal in the darkly blazing, virtuosic second concerto. One of our great lyric instrumentalists, he gives a deeply-felt, but never over-dramatised performance, a piercing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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The playing here, disarmingly gentle yet tonally seductive, has a songful use of vibrato that recalls the expressive manners of Pierre Fournier and du Pré herself…A most rewarding CD then, sure... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Newcomer (cello)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: La Muse et le Poète
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Lionel Bringuier
In the Violin Concerto, Renaud Capucon and the conductor provide a lesson in how to generate rubato organically from the material...the soloist's tone and technique deserve the highest praise...The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Müller-Schott has the technique to project the disc’s multitude of moods and to move seamlessly from virtuosity to sensuousness and back again...The Saint-Saëns Concerto is a joy from start... —
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Record Review, 25th September 2021, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade and works by Saint-Saëns:
Mischel Cherniavsky (cello), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Gerhardt has a honeyed, liquid tone all his own. He has created a well-contrasted programme that clearly took a long time to research and hone...This is cello playing of exquisite sophistication... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des Animaux
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Michel Dalberto (piano), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), David Guerrier (trumpet), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Béatrice Muthelet (viola), Esther Hoppe (violin), Janne Saksala (double bass), Florent Jodelet (percussion)
'What hard things,' wrote Saint-Saëns, 'have been said against virtuosity!… The fact must be proclaimed from the house-tops – in art a difficulty overcome is a thing of beauty.' There are many... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2004, Disc of the Month
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Building A Library, September 2021, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Concertos (New Talents Edition #3)
Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Howard Griffiths
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Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto, Bacchanale & Symphony No. 1
Astrig Siranossian (cello), Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Nabil Shehata
A fine, flowing account, recorded with just enough resiny grit and grain in the soloist’s sound...Siranossian plays with lyricism and passion, as well as with a rapt inward quality at the first... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Orchestral Choice
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