Composer: Leonardo Leo, Giovanni Benedetto Platti, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Sol Gabetta, Cappella Gabetta
Conductor: Andrés Gabetta
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 88697932302
Release: 2011
Size: 365 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Vivaldi: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, RV 423
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Largo
03. III. Allegro
Vivaldi: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, RV 416
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Allegro
Vivaldi: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, RV 420
07. I. Andante
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Allegro
Vivaldi: Sonata for Violoncello and Basso continuo, RV 42
10. I. Preludio. Largo
11. II. Allemanda. Andante
12. III. Sarabanda. Largo
13. IV. Giga. Allegro
Leo: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D major
14. I. Andantino grazioso
15. II. Con bravura
16. III. Larghetto, con poco moto
17. IV. Allegro di molto
18. V. Fuga
Platti: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 657
19. I. Non tanto allegro
20. II. Adagio
21. III. Alla breve. Fuga
Sol Gabetta is the young female superstar of the cello. The Argentine-French cellist, who speaks six languages fluently, has captured the hearts of audiences in many countries with her playing and her charisma. Sol has received prestigious awards: she won three Echo Klassik prizes in Germany, received Argentina’s Gardel Prize as “artist of the year“ in three consecutive years and in 2010 won the prestigious Gramophone Award as “young artist of the year”.
For her fifth recording for Sony Music and the first on the Sony Classical label, Sol Gabetta has teamed up with her own ensemble, the Cappella Gabetta, a small ensemble that plays baroque music on period instruments, which was founded by Sol Gabetta and her brother Andres Gabetta (lead violin). Sol and Andres have chosen this group of musicians so that they can make music among friends and explore works of the Baroque and Early Classical genres.
On the new album, entitled Il Progetto Vivaldi 2, Sol Gabetta and Cappella Gabetta perform beautiful Italian cello concertos. Three deservedly popular concertos composed by Antonio Vivaldi are coupled with a rarely recorded sonata by Vivaldi and a charming cello concerto by Leonardo Leo, a Neapolitan composer. The CD also includes a world premiere recording, a cello concerto by Giovanni Benedetto Platti, an Italian composer who worked in Germany between 1730 and 1763. The cello concerto by Platti was recently discovered near Würzburg in the archive of a castle of Duke of Schönborn. The Vivaldi concertos which Sol Gabetta has chosen for this recording were also discovered in this archive.