Prayer Sol Gabetta
Album info
Album-Release:
2014
HRA-Release:
27.01.2015
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Artist: Sol Gabetta
Composer: Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Pablo Casals (1876-1973), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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- Ernest Bloch (1880-1959): From Jewish Life
- 1 I. Prayer 04:38
- 2 II. Supplication 02:52
- 3 III. Jewish Song 02:48
- Baal Shem
- 4 Baal Shem: II. Nigun 07:30
- 5 Méditation Hébraïque 06:49
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79
- 6 III. Lullaby (Arr. for Cello and String Orchestra) 03:28
- 7 V. A Warning (Arr. for Cello and String Orchestra) 01:02
- 8 VII. The Song of Misery (Arr. for Cello and String Orchestra) 01:37
- 9 X. The Young Girl's Song (Arr. for Cello and String Orchestra) 02:53
- Ernest Bloch: Schelomo
- 10 Schelomo 22:36
- Pablo Casals (1876-1973): Song of the Birds
- 11 Song of the Birds 03:42
Info for Prayer
“Prayer” offers the listener an intimate and meditative musical journey, with poignantly chosen pieces.
Sol was inspired to record this album from her experience of playing the piece “Prayer” by Swiss-born Jewish composer Ernest Bloch as an encore in her concerts – she always found the audience was deeply moved and longed for more music of this kind.
As she searched to expand this repertoire, she came across other pieces by Bloch, Dmitri Shostakovich and the cellist Pablo Casals.
The majority of the pieces on this CD are inspired by religious Jewish themes.
“[Song of the Birds is] played here with unforgettable lyrical intensity. The totally natural recording balance adds to the presence of the performers and this well-packaged and infromative CD is well worth having.” (Gramophone)
“I was especially struck by Gabetta’s willingness to vary her vibrato, sometimes accentuating it to mimic the wailing quality of a cantor’s lament, as on the long, drawn-out concluding C of the opening “Prayer”, and elsewhere fining down her tone to an unpulsed pianissimo. Her intonation is superb and she makes telling use of quarter-tone slides to enhance the intensity of yearning in the music.” (MusicWeb International)
Sol Gabetta, cello
Orchestre National de Lyon
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson, violin
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
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