Lise Cristiani Sol Gabetta

• Adrien-Francois Servais (1807 - 1866): La Romanesca:
• 1 Servais: La Romanesca 05:25
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): Una furtiva lagrima. Romance de "L'elisir d'amore" de Donizetti:
• 2 Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima. Romance de "L'elisir d'amore" de Donizetti 04:22
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Du bist die Ruh (D 776) - L’Attente:
• 3 Schubert: Du bist die Ruh (D 776) - L’Attente 04:24
• Ständchen (D 889) - Sérénade:
• 4 Schubert: Ständchen (D 889) - Sérénade 04:13
• Ellens Gesang III (D 839) - Ave Maria:
• 5 Schubert: Ellens Gesang III (D 839) - Ave Maria 04:01
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880): Musette - Air de ballet du XVII:
• 6 Offenbach: Musette - Air de ballet du XVII: 03:35
• Adrien-Francois Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2:
• 7 Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2: I. Allegro agitato 03:05
• 8 Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2: II. Cantabile espressivo 02:24
• 9 Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2: III. Variation 1 01:22
• 10 Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2: IV. Allegro 01:53
• 11 Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2: V. Andantino 03:16
• 12 Servais: Souvenir de Spa, Op. 2: VI. Allegro 04:17
• Jacques Offenbach: Prière et boléro, Op. 22:
• 13 Offenbach: Prière et boléro, Op. 22: I. Introduction. Prière 04:30
• 14 Offenbach: Prière et boléro, Op. 22: II. Boléro 07:42
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868): Péchés de vieillesse, Album IX, No. 10:
• 15 Rossini: Péchés de vieillesse, Album IX, No. 10: Une larme - Thème et variations 03:36
• Alexandre Batta: Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra "Guillaume Tell" de Rossini (Arr. for 3 Cellos):
• 16 Batta: Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra "Guillaume Tell" de Rossini (Arr. for 3 Cellos): I. Moderato 04:31
• 17 Batta: Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra "Guillaume Tell" de Rossini (Arr. for 3 Cellos): II. Adagio 03:55
• 18 Batta: Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra "Guillaume Tell" de Rossini (Arr. for 3 Cellos): III. Moderato - Allegro 02:19
• Adrien-Francois Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13:
• 19 Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13: I. Andante con espressione 04:16
• 20 Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13: II. Allegretto 01:11
• 21 Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13: III. Variation 1. Un poco più mosso 00:58
• 22 Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13: IV. Variation 2. Allegro moderato 01:32
• 23 Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13: V. Andantino 02:17
• 24 Servais: Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes, Op.13: VI. Allegro non troppo 01:30
• Total Runtime 01:20:34

Info for Lise Cristiani

With her new album, Sol Gabetta draws attention to the first professional, publicly performing cellist, Lise Cristiani (1825–1853).

To mark the 200th anniversary of Lise Cristiani's birth in December 2025, Sol Gabetta pays tribute to a musical pioneer of historic significance on her new album, which will be released on October 10th by Sony Classical. As the first cellist to have the courage to perform in public, Cristiani broke social conventions, inspired numerous composers of her time, and became a role model for generations of musicians.

In close collaboration with musicologists, Sol Gabetta has spent the past few years researching the fascinating, yet tragically short, career of this exceptional artist and reconstructing her musical repertoire. On a sonic journey through the works of virtuoso cellists who were close to Cristiani, Sol Gabetta invites you to rediscover a fascinating repertoire – a repertoire that impressively showcases the cello's full virtuoso potential and rich romantic expression.

Following her companions – the cellists and composers Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), Alexandre Batta (1816–1902), and François-Adrien Servais (1807–1866) – Lise Cristiani strove to bring the full expressive spectrum of her instrument to a broad audience. She compiled her own concert programs and presented both original works by her contemporaries, often characterized by folk themes, as well as transcriptions of Italian opera arias and Schubert songs, which she performed with unique expressiveness.

The young Jacques Offenbach supported Cristiani in her debut performances in Paris in 1844/45 and dedicated several works to her, including Prière et Boléro and Musette, which became her favorites.

Sol Gabetta, cello
Cappella Gabetta (tracks 1, 6-9, 12)
Irina Zaharenkova, fortepiano (tracks 2-5, 10, 11)
Victor Julien-Laferriere, cello (track 11)

Sol Gabetta
The cellist Sol Gabetta was born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1981 as the daughter of French and Russian parents. She was only ten when she won her first competition in Argentina, and has received many more awards since then: she won the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD Competition in Munich, and has been awarded the Natalia Gutman Prize. In 2004 she created an international sensation when, as winner of the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award, she gave her début with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev at the Lucerne Festival.

From 1992–94 Sol Gabetta studied with a scholarship at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, after which she moved to Switzerland to pursue further studies with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Academy of Music. After further years of study with David Geringas, she took her concert exam in 2006 at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin.

In the last few years, Sol Gabetta has made guest appearances with the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, SWR Stuttgart, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, the Calgary and Seoul Philharmonics, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Het Residentie Orkest, the Trondheim Soloists and the orchestras of Euskadi, Teneriffa and Sevilla. She regularly gives concerts together with the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Gabetta regularly appears at major festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, in Verbier, at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Bonn Beethoven Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Saratoga Festival. She has also founded her own chamber music festival in Switzerland with the name "Solsberg", where she performs together with her chamber music partners, who include Henri Sigfridsson, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Baiba and Lauma Skride and Patricia Kopatchinkskaya.

Sol Gabetta records exclusively on the RCA label (Sony Music). Her début CD featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ginastera, recorded with the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ari Rasilainen, shot straight to the top of the German classical charts, and brought the coveted Echo Klassik Prize for 2007 as instrumentalist of the year. Her second CD. with Vivaldi concertos recorded together with the Italian ensemble Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, was released in September 2007, and stayed in Germany's classical charts for over six months. 2008 saw the release of not one, but two CD's by Sol Gabetta. One featured a Shostakovich programme: the Cello concerto no.2 with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Marc Albrecht, and the Sonata for cello & piano (with the pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa). The second CD is entitled "Cantabile" and contains opera arias and songs by Offenbach, Bizet, Tchaikovsky and others; on this album, Ms. Gabetta is accompanied by the Prague Philharmonic conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe. After it was released, the Shostakovich CD was awarded the coveted French music award Diapason d’Or by the clafssical music magazine Diapason and received the German Echo Klassik award 2009 as concerto recording of the year. In 2011 she received her third Echo Klassik award for her recording of the Elgar cello concerto.

A generous private grant from Hans K. Rahn enables Sol Gabetta to play one of the rare and valuable cellos built by G. B. Guadagnini; the instrument dates from 1759. She has held a teaching post at the Basel Academy of Music since October 2005.

Booklet for Lise Cristiani