AUDIO REVIEW - Sol Gabetta: Plays Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, and Ginastera
Submitted by WebAdmin on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:08.
Sol Gabetta
Plays Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, and Ginastera
RCA 75951
(sonybmgmasterworks.com)
On this new CD, the young Argentina-born, Switzerland-based cellist Sol Gabetta explores how Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's music evokes the spirituality of dance. The elegantly introspective "Variations on a Rococo Theme," "Andante Cantabile," and "Nocturne" harken back to a graciously idealized eighteenth-century dreamworld. Tchaikovsky once described his compassionate music as a "musical confession of the soul, which is full to the brim and which, true to its essential nature, pours itself out in sound." He stressed the subtlety of his "articulation of the thousand different moments of the soul's moods," and Sol Gabetta's luscious string tone is an ideal means for communicating these emotional transitions. In the rhapsodic "Pampeana No. 2" by her compatriot Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Gabetta's forthright structural sense matches Ginastera's own definition of music as architecture which "unfolds in time . . . When time has passed, when the work has unfolded, a sense of inner perfection survives in the spirit." Expressing the vast natural wonders of the Argentine pampas (fertile lowlands), "Pampeana No. 2" is a spirit-stretching exercise in sound.
Plays Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, and Ginastera
RCA 75951
(sonybmgmasterworks.com)
On this new CD, the young Argentina-born, Switzerland-based cellist Sol Gabetta explores how Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's music evokes the spirituality of dance. The elegantly introspective "Variations on a Rococo Theme," "Andante Cantabile," and "Nocturne" harken back to a graciously idealized eighteenth-century dreamworld. Tchaikovsky once described his compassionate music as a "musical confession of the soul, which is full to the brim and which, true to its essential nature, pours itself out in sound." He stressed the subtlety of his "articulation of the thousand different moments of the soul's moods," and Sol Gabetta's luscious string tone is an ideal means for communicating these emotional transitions. In the rhapsodic "Pampeana No. 2" by her compatriot Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Gabetta's forthright structural sense matches Ginastera's own definition of music as architecture which "unfolds in time . . . When time has passed, when the work has unfolded, a sense of inner perfection survives in the spirit." Expressing the vast natural wonders of the Argentine pampas (fertile lowlands), "Pampeana No. 2" is a spirit-stretching exercise in sound.
