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Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Overtures / Carmignola, Gabetta, Lazic

Release Date: 01/08/2016
Label: Sony Catalog #: 376362 Spars Code: n/a
Composer:  Ludwig van Beethoven Performer:  Giuliano Carmignola ,  Dejan Lazic ,  Sol Gabetta Conductor:  Giovanni Antonini Orchestra/Ensemble:  Basel Chamber Orchestra Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo Length: 0 Hours 55 Mins.

For Beethoven’s famous Triple Concerto Op. 56, world renowned cellist Sol Gabetta teamed up with fellow musicians and friends violinist Giuliano Carmignola, soloist of the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Dejan Lazic, the young talented pianist, and Giovanni Antonini, conductor of the Kammerorchester Basel. This album also features three of Beethoven's greatest overtures, Prometheus, Egmont and Coriolan.

Reviews:

Sol Gabetta gives a wonderfully lyrical account of the Triple Concerto's all-important cello role. Antonini and his Basel chamber players are prompt and sympathetic.

-Gramophone Magazine

Cellist Sol Gabetta, violinist Giuliano Carmignola, and pianist Dejan Lazic are here Read more something of a dream team: characterful, distinctive and focused on the same thing. They can be dynamic and crisply propulsive together, but this performance has a lightness of touch that in the finale spills over into playfulness and wit.

- The Guardian

Full praise to the Sony production team for finding such a convincing balance, not just between soloists and orchestra, but between the soloists themselves. It all sounds wonderfully fresh and clear. So too does the performance. The Triple Concerto's eccentricities are joyously celebrated. It isn't just the élan and lively intelligence that impress: I've rarely heard such a roundly enjoyable performance of the brief slow movement.

-BBC Music Magazine Read less