Description
Sony Classical: Sol Gabetta — Vasks: Presence (Cello Concerto No. 2 Klātbūtne) CD
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Product Details:
- UPC: 0887254231226
- Catalog Number: 88725423122
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Sony Classical
- Composer: Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946)
- Cello: Sol Gabetta
- Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta (tracks 1–3)
- Direction: Candida Thompson (tracks 1–3)
- Organ: Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (track 4)
- Release Year: 2015
- Genre: Classical / Contemporary
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Total time: approx. 60 minutes (60:35)
- Tracks: 6
- Includes the world-premiere recording of the Second Cello Concerto Klātbūtne
- Condition: New, factory sealed
- Made in the EU (LC 06868)
Overview
This is the album where Pēteris Vasks's Second Cello Concerto first reached record — a world-premiere recording of Klātbūtne ("Presence"), the concerto the Latvian composer wrote expressly for Sol Gabetta and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Gabetta plays it as music made for her, because it was, and the partnership with Candida Thompson's strings gives the long Vasks lines room to breathe.
Vasks writes in a language that's spacious, tonal, and openly spiritual, and German critics caught the mood exactly — the Rheinische Post called it "music that aspires to Heaven." The concerto carries that aspiration across three connected movements before the disc opens onto two more intimate worlds.
The personal touches are part of the appeal. Musique du soir for cello and organ is performed with Gabetta accompanied by her own mother, Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, at the organ. The recital closes with Grāmata čellam ("The Book"), a searching piece for unaccompanied cello. A new release from a living master, presented brand new in its original factory wrap.
Interesting Facts
- Klātbūtne is Vasks's Second Cello Concerto, composed specifically for Sol Gabetta and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and recorded here for the first time anywhere.
- Pēteris Vasks, born in 1946 in Aizpute, Latvia, is the son of a Baptist pastor — a background often heard in the contemplative, prayer-like character of his music.
- On Musique du soir, Sol Gabetta is accompanied at the organ by her mother, Irène Timacheff-Gabetta.
- The German daily Rheinische Post described the music as aspiring "to Heaven," capturing the album's luminous, devotional tone.
- Grāmata čellam ("The Book") is a demanding work for solo cello that has become one of Vasks's most performed pieces for the instrument.
- The Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a conductorless string ensemble led from the violin by Candida Thompson, is among Europe's most acclaimed string orchestras.
Track Listing
1–3. Klātbūtne — Presence: Concerto No. 2 for cello and string orchestra
- Musique du Soir — for cello and organ 5–6. Grāmata čellam — The Book: for cello solo
Publishers
℗ & © 2015 Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH, under the Sony Classical label. Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment. Made in the EU.
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