Person · cellist
Alban Gerhardt
Albums
28
Members
0
Active
1969–present
Origin
Germany
Biography
Alban Gerhardt (born in 1969) is a German cellist. He has performed as a soloist with many internationally known orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2009 he preformed as a soloist at the Proms in the Albert Hall. Gerhardt was born in Berlin, where his father was a violinist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He took up both the piano and the cello at the age of eight. Gerhardt's first public performance came on February 22, 1987, when he played Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2 in D as part of a chamber orchestra for the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1994 he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.
Discography
Kodály / Debussy / De Falla / Kreisler / Paganini
Cello Sonatas
Music for Cello and Piano
Music For Cello And Piano
BBC Music, Volume 11, Number 1: Concerto: Brahms: Double Concerto / Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 3
The Berkeley Edition, Volume 3
Britten: Cello Suite No. 1 / Bach, J.S.: Cello Suite no. 5 / Kodaly: Cello Sonata
Orchestral Works, Volume 4: A Prayer / Oration / Rebus / Lament / Allegro moderato
The Romantic Cello Concerto, Volume 1: Dohnányi: Konzertstück in D major, op. 12 / Enescu: Symphonie concertante in B-flat minor, op. 8 / D’Albert: Cello Concerto in C major, op. 20
Cello Sonatas
The Romantic Cello Concerto, Volume 2: Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129 / Volkmann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 33 / Gernsheim: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 78 / Dietrich: Cello Concerto in G minor, op. 32
Cello Sonatas
Cello Sonatas
Une Cantate de Noël / "Amphion" Prelude, Fugue et Postlude / Cello Concerto / Horace victorieux
Cello Concerto / Symphony-Concerto
Casals Encores
Cello Sonatas
Orchestral Works, The Collector's Edition
Cello Symphony, Cello Sonata & Cello Suites
Don Quixote / Till Eulenspiegel
3 Concertos: Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto / Šu for Sheng and Orchestra
The Romantic Cello Concerto, Volume 4: Cello Concerto in G major, op. 42 / Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 52 / Cello Concerto, op. posth. / Duo, op. 43
The Romantic Cello Concerto, Volume 7: Fitzenhagen: Cello Concerto no. 1, op. 2 / Cello Concerto no. 2, op. 4 / Resignation, op. 8 / Ballade, op. 10 / Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33
Vieuxtemps: Cello Concerto no. 1, op. 46 / Cello Concerto no. 2, op. 50 / Ysaÿe: Méditation, op. 16 / Sérénade, op. 22
Rostropovich Encores
The Cello Suites
Cello Concertos
Phantasy in Blue