Paul Hindemith:
Kammermusik No. 3, Op. 36/2

Jacques Ibert:
Concert for Cello and Orchestra

Ernst Toch:
Concert for Cello and Kammerorchestra, Op. 35

Bohuslav Martinů:
Concertino für Violoncello, Bläser, Klavier und Schlagzeug c-Moll, H. 143

The Cello during the Golden Twenties

The young cellist Christoph Heesch is releasing a revolutionary CD on GENUIN. The prizewinner of the Fanny Mendelssohn Sponsorship Award plays four cello concertos from 1924-25, each of which is a sensation in itself. The composers Paul Hindemith, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinů and Ernst Toch wrote exciting music for an exciting time: they broke all conventions and put the solo instrument and orchestra in a new relationship to each other. Christoph Heesch throws himself into these virtuoso, melodious, cumbersome works with verve. In short: absolutely worthwhile works that you do not want to listen to anywhere else than from this CD.

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Recorded at Tonstudio Ölbergkirche, Berlin, Germany, April 4–7, 2018