‘There is a tiger inside this instrument’: Sol Gabetta talks about her newly acquired cello – The Strad’s August 2016 cover star speaks about adjusting to playing a c.1725 Gofriller, after twelve years with her beloved Guadagnini. Click here for an extract of the interview.
Read MoreSee 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 MoreToday, 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 MoreFIRST 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 MoreOn 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), […]
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