Saint-Saëns and Lalo Cello Concertos

Cellist Sol Gabetta and the period instrument orchestra Les Siècles led by François-Xavier Roth present Camille Saint-Saëns’s two Cello Concertos alongside Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto in D minor — three cornerstone works of the Romantic cello repertoire. Saint-Saëns’s First Concerto and Lalo’s concerto, composed within a span of just a few years, both place a strong emphasis on the orchestra, …