Gal: Music For Cello

Gál: Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 109a First recording Alfia Nakipbekova (cello) Suite for Cello Solo, Op. 109b First recording Alfia Nakipbekova (cello) Sonata for cello & piano Op. 89 Alfia Nakipbekova (cello) & Jakob Fichert (piano)

Hans Gál (1890–1987) was born in one of the suburbs of Vienna and was one of the most successful composers in Austria and Germany when Hitler came to power. The Jewish Gál was forced to flee to Britain with his family in 1938, whereupon a meeting with Donald Tovey brought him to Edinburgh, where he became a much-loved figure in his adoptive town. These three works demonstrate that he never lost his Viennese fondness for melody: his music is predominantly lyrical, within a contrapuntal framework, appealing to head and heart alike. The Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 89, was composed in 1953 and the two works for solo cello in 1982, the Suite and Sonata, when he was 92, almost the last music he wrote. These recordings take their place in the ongoing rediscovery of Gál’s music on CD.

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