Casals Encores

CLASSIC FM 'CD OF THE WEEK'
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 'CHAMBER CHOICE'

'[Gerhardt] and the superb Cecile Licad are wholly successful in this endeavour from the outset … he has created a well-contrasted programme … each work is presented with stylish devotion … This is cello playing of exquisite sophistication and bold imagination' --BBC Music Magazine

'Let me not turn tedious with a list of Gerhardt's superior skills, his seamless legato, his command of bowing skills, his generous tone even at the top of the A string, his glowing burnished double stops in the Popper/Chopin Nocturne … It goes without saying, though I better say it, that the playing is immaculate from both players, the sequence of pieces on the CD is nicely contrasted' --International Record Review

'There is much more to an encore, as Alban Gerhardt will tell you, than casually capping a recital with an audience-pleaser … Listen to Gerhardt in Benjamin Godard’s Berceuse de Jocelyn and there is a paradigm of the exceptional eloquence and discernment that distinguishes the entire disc' --The Telegraph

'Gerhardt's playing [is] less heart-on-sleeve than Casals's own, but wonderfully eloquent and noble: he can be extraordinarily moving in such once-familiar standards as the Berceuse from Godard's Jocelyn, or in Casals's arrangement of Chopin's Raindrop Prelude' --The Guardian

MP3 320 · 155 MB