Camille Saint-Saëns; Édouard Lalo - Cello Concertos (Sol Gabetta)

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Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns; Édouard Lalo

• Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 119
• Lalo - Cello Concerto in D Minor
• Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33

Sol Gabetta, cello

Les Siècles

François-Xavier Roth, conductor

Date: 2026

Label: Sony Classical/Sony Music

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On Saint-Saëns & Lalo: Cello Concertos, cellist Sol Gabetta collaborates with the period-instrument orchestra Les Siècles to present three cornerstone works of the Romantic repertoire: Camille Saint-Saëns’ two cello concertos and Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto in D minor. The recording contrasts the dynamic soloist-orchestral dialogue of Saint-Saëns' First Concerto and Lalo’s concerto with the virtuosic, structurally expansive demands of Saint-Saëns' later Second Concerto. Combining historically informed performance practice with her signature expressive intensity and narrative clarity, Gabetta and Les Siècles bring a vivid, late-19th-century tonal palette to these lyrical masterworks.

Born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1981 to French and Russian parents, cellist Sol Gabetta gained early recognition, winning her first competition at age ten and later the Moscow Tchaikovsky and ARD Munich Competitions. Her international breakthrough came in 2004 with her debut alongside the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev at the Lucerne Festival. Trained in Madrid, Basel, and Berlin, she has since performed with leading orchestras worldwide and at major festivals, while founding her own Solsberg Chamber Music Festival in Switzerland. An exclusive RCA/Sony artist, her award-winning recordings include works by Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and Elgar. She performs on a 1759 Guadagnini cello and teaches at the Basel Academy of Music.

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