Alban Gerhardt, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze: Elgar & Dvořák: Cello Concertos CD [abr_comp] J.M. Bach The sublime results were worth

The sublime results were worth the wait: after forty years of collaboration

Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante In E Flat

Olivier Messiaen – Préludes: 1

an unknown fragrance

The focus of Paris for this album grew out of Hilary Hahn’s longtime collaboration with the Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France and its music director

Alban Gerhardt, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze: Elgar & Dvořák: Cello Concertos CD [abr_comp] J.M. Bach The sublime results were worthAlban Gerhardts 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 Gerhardts words, make a return to the sources: the scores themselves, prompting the question: should we consider anew what is the