A major release at the start of Britten’s anniversary celebrations. Britten’s long friendship with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was one of the most inspiring and fruitful musical collaborations in history. It led directly to the composition of some of the most important works for cello of the twentieth century.Alban Gerhardt, among the greatest living exponents of the instrument, performs this body of works in its entirety. In the Cello Sonata he is partnered by Steven Osborne, whose Hyperion recording of Britten’s Piano Concerto received a Gramophone Award. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Manze join Gerhardt for the Cello Symphony, Britten’s only substantial piece of absolute symphonic music.The astonishing music for solo cello—the three suites plus the miniature Tema ‘Sacher’—completes the set. The suites are repositories of a huge number of compositional and string-playing techniques, acknowledging their debt to Bach but also demonstrating all the imagination and emotional scope for which the composer is revered.

• Wykonawca Gerhardt Alban , Osborne Steven
• Data premiery 2012-11-01
• Nośnik CD

Szósta płyta wyjątkowej serii Hyperiona z romantycznymi koncertami wiolonczelowymi, w której możemy odnaleźć o tyle piękne, co nieznane dzieła kompozytorów romantycznych. Henry Vieuxtemps i Eugene Ysaye, mimo że znani byli przede wszystkim z pirotechnicznych kompozycji skrzypcowych, są również autorami czterech, przedstawionych na płycie utworów na wiolonczelę. W roli wykonawcy występuje Alban Gerhardt, których przyjmuje wyzwanie, stawiane przez dwójkę kompozytorów-wirtuozów, znanych ze skandalicznych wręcz wymogów od strony solistów. Płyta otrzymała nagrodę Classic FM Editor's Choice, wystarczające wyróżnienie dla Brautigama i występujących z nim muzyków z Royal Flemish Philharmonic.

• Wykonawca Gerhardt Alban
• Data premiery 2015-02-01
• Nośnik CD

  Following their triumphant Casals Encores disc, Alban Gerhardt and Cecile Licad are reunited for Fauré’s music for cello and piano. The two cello sonatas are among the masterpieces of the cello repertoire, looking back to the 19th century but also with an edginess that may well reflect the time in which they were written—during and immediately after the First World War. Remarkably, Fauré was in his seventies by the time he wrote them. There’s some debate as to how fast the last movement of the First Sonata should go—so Alban Gerhardt has recorded two alternative versions, to be programmed to the listener’s taste.  Alongside the sonatas are some of Fauré’s most seductive bon-bons, including the famous Sicilienne and Élégie, and the so-called Papillon (so-named at his publisher’s insistence, much to Fauré’s annoyance who hated fluffy titles).  Alban Gerhardt is of course a Hyperion regular and this is his ninth album for the label  

• Wykonawca Gerhardt Alban , Licad Cecile
• Data premiery 2011-10-01
• Nośnik CD