Dvorák’s Cello Concerto

It’s one of the most gorgeous concertos ever written. Brahms said of it, “Had I known it was possible to write a cello concerto as beautiful as this, I’d have written one myself”. The Argentinean cellist, Sol Gabetta, gives her interpretation of Dvorák’s warm, lyrical and genuinely lovely work. In a totally different mood – it has been described as depicting “a toy shop at night” – the last of Shostakovich’s symphonies is crammed full of clever musical quotations including Rossini’s William Tell and Wagner’s Ring, not to mention countless self-quotations, making it an amazingly colourful potpourri of memorable moments.