Bertrand Chamayou & Sol Gabetta

Born the same year, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou are characterised among their generation by an expressive warmth mixed with the greatest artistic integrity. It is a privilege to have them return with a programme based around Mendelssohn.

Refined intellectual, prodigy of the piano, Felix Mendelssohn incarnates a less tormented romanticism than that of Schubert or Schumann, but rich in literary imaginary and endless melodic genius. Devoted to the memory of Bach, whose St. Matthew Passion he restored to the world, he would share with the old Cantor a deep interest in the cello, to which he would dedicate two Sonatas, the splendid Variations concertantes as well as a Feuille d’album and a Romance. Alternatively passionate, strictly polyphonic, elegiac or endowed with a light transparency, his art cites Hassidic melodies and Lutheran chorales, expressing with subtlety the complexity of a man born into an illustrious family of Jewish intellectuals who later converted to Protestantism.

Cello Sol Gabetta
Piano Bertrand Chamayou

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Sonate Nr. 1 B-Dur für Violoncello und Klavier, op. 45

Johannes Brahms
Sonate für Violoncello Nr. 1 Op. 38 e-Moll

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Variations concertantes, op. 17

César Franck
Sonate (Version für Klavier und Violoncello)