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Countdown: 4 days left until BBC proms
See the cello in a new light as Sol Gabetta performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor. A 300-year-old instrument becomes a screen in this unique film. Infrared cameras track the cello’s position allowing a digital projection to stay locked onto its surface as it moves. The spotlight falls on the cello […]
Read MoreJuly 8 & 9: Sol Gabetta playing at the HafenCity Open Air in Hamburg
Today, July 8, and tomorrow, July 9, evening at 21:00 Sol Gabetta is playing Shostakovich’s Cello Concert No. 1 at the first open air concert of the harbour in Hamburg together with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under the direction of Krzysztof Urbański. The stage will be located at the top of the Elb Island with […]
Read MoreSol Gabetta at the BBC Proms on July 15, 2016
FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS: Friday, 15 July 2016, 19:00, Royal Albert Hall TSCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasy Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor PROKOFIEV: Cantata ‘Alexander Nevsky’ For more information, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk
Read MoreSolsberg Festival
On May 26, 2016 the 11th edition of my Solsberg Festival started and it will end on June 26. I founded this festival in 2006 in order to create a platform for musical encounters at the highest level. In six wonderful concerts I had the chance to play together with my musician friends Patricia Kopatchinskaja (May 26), […]
Read MoreGramophone’s choice
Elgar’s Cello Concerto: Recommended Recordings: Sol Gabetta’s Elgar Concerto is one of the best around, a heartfelt, tonally rounded performance, intimate and wholly at one with Mario Venzago’s generally subtle handling of the orchestral score. Check out the passage after the opening cadenza, where the main subject is handed seamlessly between soloist and strings, or […]
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