Artist:
Alban Gerhardt
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Andrew Manze
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
61:00
Record Label:
Hyperion Records
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 19, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Alban Gerhardt
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Andrew Manze
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
61:00
Record Label:
Hyperion Records
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 19, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: Alban Gerhardt's first studio recording of the two most famous concertos in the entire cello repertoire represents the fruit of 35 years of kinship with these masterpieces. Bolstered by the forces of the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Andrew Manze, Gerhardt offers interpretations which challenge inherited conventions and, in Gerhardt's words, make a "return to the sources: the scores themselves," prompting the question: should we consider anew what is the "correct" approach of playing these works? His adherence to the text often leads to tempos and proportions that differ noticeably from the norm, which Gerhardt says feel both more alive and closer to the detailed musical instructions left by each composer. In this context, Gerhardt quotes Gustav Mahler: "Tradition must not be the adoration of ashes but the preservation of fire."
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio – Moderato
Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar
(06:55)
2 . Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: II. Lento – Allegro molto Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar (03:51)
3 . Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: III. Adagio Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar (04:06)
4 . Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: IV. Allegro Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar (10:09)
5 . vořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: I. Allegro Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Antonín Dvořák (14:01)
6 .Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: II. Adagio ma non troppo Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Antonín Dvořák (10:58)
7 .Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: III. Finale. Allegro moderato Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Antonín Dvořák (11:59)
2 . Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: II. Lento – Allegro molto Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar (03:51)
3 . Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: III. Adagio Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar (04:06)
4 . Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: IV. Allegro Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Edward Elgar (10:09)
5 . vořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: I. Allegro Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Antonín Dvořák (14:01)
6 .Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: II. Adagio ma non troppo Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Antonín Dvořák (10:58)
7 .Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, B. 191: III. Finale. Allegro moderato Alban Gerhardt, R Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze & Antonín Dvořák (11:59)
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