Mendelssohn Sol Gabetta

• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847): Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19:
• 1Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: I. Thema01:05
• 2Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: II. Variation I00:30
• 3Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: III. Variation II00:30
• 4Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: IV. Più vivace Variation00:31
• 5Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: V. Allegro con fuoco Variation00:35
• 6Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: VI. L'istesso tempo Variation I00:40
• 7Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: VII. L'istesso tempo Variation II00:32
• 8Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: VIII. Presto ed agitato Variation01:33
• 9Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations concertantes, Op. 17/MWV Q 19: IX. Tempo I. Coda. Più animato03:08
• Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45/MWV Q 27:
• 10Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45/MWV Q 27: I. Allegro vivace12:23
• 11Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45/MWV Q 27: II. Andante06:18
• 12Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45/MWV Q 27: III. Allegro assai06:27
• Assai tranquillo in B Minor, MWV Q 25:
• 13Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Assai tranquillo in B Minor, MWV Q 2503:06
• Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58/MWV Q 32:
• 14Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58/MWV Q 32: I. Allegro assai vivace07:56
• 15Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58/MWV Q 32: II. Allegretto scherzando05:30
• 16Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58/MWV Q 32: III. Adagio04:06
• 17Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58/MWV Q 32: IV. Molto Allegro e vivace06:49
• Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109:
• 18Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Lied ohne Worte, Op. 10904:23
• Jörg Widmann (b. 1973): Lied ohne Worte:
• 19Widmann: Lied ohne Worte03:46
• Heinz Holliger (b. 1939): Lieder ohne Worte II, No. 3:
• 20Holliger: Lieder ohne Worte II, No. 3: (...fern...), Arr. for Cello & Piano01:44
• Lieder ohne Worte II, No. 6:
• 21Holliger: Lieder ohne Worte II, No. 6: (...sam), Arr. for Cello & Piano01:51
• Lieder ohne Worte II, No. 5:
• 22Holliger: Lieder ohne Worte II, No. 5: (Flammen...Schnee), Arr. for Cello & Piano02:45
• Francisco Coll (b. 1985): Dialog ohne Worte:
• 23Coll: Dialog ohne Worte02:27
• Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952): Lied ohne Worte:
• 24Rihm: Lied ohne Worte02:45
• Verschwundene Worte:
• 25Rihm: Verschwundene Worte02:31
• Total Runtime01:23:51

Info for Mendelssohn

Sol Gabetta's new "Mendelssohn" album with pianist Bertrand Chamayou will be released by Sony Classical on 19 January. The two long-standing partners have recorded all of Mendelssohn's works for cello and piano as well as new "Songs without Words" by outstanding contemporary composers.

After recording the complete works for cello and piano by Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou continue their exploration of the Romantic repertoire for cello and piano with the complete works of Felix Mendelssohn for their instrumentation. Mendelssohn's works have been part of Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou's core repertoire for many years. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy composed a total of five works for cello and piano in the course of his short life.

From the "Variations concertantes" op. 17, which he composed in 1829 for his cello-playing brother Paul, to the famous "Chanson sans paroles" op. 109, which he dedicated to Lise Cristiani in 1845, to the two great sonatas in B flat major op. 45 (1838) and D major op. 58 (1843) as well as the rarely performed and mysterious "Assai tranquillo" from 1838, Mendelssohn worked on works for cello and piano throughout his entire creative period. His entire stylistic development can therefore be traced on the basis of the individual works for this instrumentation. In order to express Mendelssohn's musical language authentically and to achieve an optimal sound balance between the two instruments, the performers have chosen historical instruments (as they did for their joint Schumann album) that were set up specifically for this recording: the famous "Bonamy Dobree-Suggia" Stradivari cello with gut strings from 1717 and a historical concert grand piano by Julius Blüthner from Leipzig from 1856.

Sol Gabetta, cello
Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Sol Gabetta
The cellist Sol Gabetta was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1981 as the daughter of French and Russian parents. She was only ten when she won her first competition in Argentina, and has received many more awards since then: she won the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD Competition in Munich, and has been awarded the Natalia Gutman Prize. In 2004 she created an international sensation when, as winner of the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award, she gave her début with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev at the Lucerne Festival.

From 1992–94 Sol Gabetta studied with a scholarship at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, after which she moved to Switzerland to pursue further studies with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Academy of Music. After further years of study with David Geringas, she took her concert exam in 2006 at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin.

In the last few years, Sol Gabetta has made guest appearances with the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, SWR Stuttgart, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, the Calgary and Seoul Philharmonics, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Het Residentie Orkest, the Trondheim Soloists and the orchestras of Euskadi, Teneriffa and Sevilla. She regularly gives concerts together with the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Gabetta regularly appears at major festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, in Verbier, at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Bonn Beethoven Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Saratoga Festival. She has also founded her own chamber music festival in Switzerland with the name "Solsberg", where she performs together with her chamber music partners, who include Henri Sigfridsson, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Baiba and Lauma Skride and Patricia Kopatchinkskaya.

Sol Gabetta records exclusively on the RCA label (Sony Music). Her début CD featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ginastera, recorded with the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ari Rasilainen, shot straight to the top of the German classical charts, and brought the coveted Echo Klassik Prize for 2007 as instrumentalist of the year. Her second CD. with Vivaldi concertos recorded together with the Italian ensemble Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, was released in September 2007, and stayed in Germany's classical charts for over six months. 2008 saw the release of not one, but two CD's by Sol Gabetta. One featured a Shostakovich programme: the Cello concerto no.2 with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Marc Albrecht, and the Sonata for cello & piano (with the pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa). The second CD is entitled "Cantabile" and contains opera arias and songs by Offenbach, Bizet, Tchaikovsky and others; on this album, Ms. Gabetta is accompanied by the Prague Philharmonic conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe. After it was released, the Shostakovich CD was awarded the coveted French music award Diapason d’Or by the clafssical music magazine Diapason and received the German Echo Klassik award 2009 as concerto recording of the year. In 2011 she received her third Echo Klassik award for her recording of the Elgar cello concerto.

A generous private grant from Hans K. Rahn enables Sol Gabetta to play one of the rare and valuable cellos built by G. B. Guadagnini; the instrument dates from 1759. She has held a teaching post at the Basel Academy of Music since October 2005.

Booklet for Mendelssohn