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Session Report: cellist Alban Gerhard on recording the Dvořák and Elgar concertos

2026-07-31T08:51:00

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German cellist Alban Gerhardt tells Jessica Duchen about challenging entrenched performance habits and returning to the composers’ markings in his recordings of the Dvořák and Elgar concertos

Have you ever met a cellist who does not want to record the Elgar and Dvořák concertos? Rather than asking why Alban Gerhardt is tackling these celebrated pieces on disc now, we might wonder what took him so long. ‘I never had the opportunity,’ the German cellist says, with a shrug suggesting that the occasion is better late than never…

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