Various Composers - Fortissima (Raphaela Gromes)

Information

CD1

• Henriëtte Bosmans - Cello Sonata in A Minor
• Victoria Yagling - Larghetto
• Emilie Mayer - Cello Sonata in A Major
• Mel Bonis - Méditation in F Major, Op. 33
• Luise Adolpha Le Beau - Cello Sonata in D Major, Op. 17
• Adele - All I Ask

CD2

• Marie Jaëll - Cello Concerto in F Major
• Maria Herz - Cello Concerto Op. 10
• Elisabeth Kuyper - Ballad for Cello & Orchestra, Op.11
• Rebecca Dale - The Lost Composers (Fortissima)
• Rebecca Dale - Radiance for Cello & Orchestra
• P!NK - Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

Raphaela Gromes, cello

Julian Riem, piano (CD1)

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Anna Rakitina, conductor (CD2)

Date: 2025

Label: Sony Classical - Sony Music

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Cellist Raphaela Gromes follows her acclaimed 2023 album Femmes with the ambitious double album Fortissima (Sony Classical), set for release on September 12, 2025. Accompanied by a book of the same title (Goldmann Verlag), the project forms a rare synthesis of music and text that restores long-forgotten female composers to the spotlight. Performed with pianist Julian Riem and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Anna Rakitina, Fortissima features sonatas and cello concertos, many in first recordings. Celebrating women’s creative legacy from past to present, the album continues Gromes’s mission to broaden and reshape the classical canon.

Raphaela Gromes (b. 1991) began cello lessons at age four and made her solo debut in 2005 with Gulda’s Cello Concerto to critical acclaim. At 14, she entered the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, later studying in Munich and Vienna with renowned teachers and attending masterclasses with leading cellists including Yo-Yo Ma and Natalia Gutman. She has appeared at major festivals and concert halls across Europe, and in 2018 debuted in the U.S. with the Fort Worth Symphony. Gromes has won numerous awards, including the German Music Council’s first prize (2016) and the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize (2019). She plays a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi cello.

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