Cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker shows us the full range of her capabilities on this new recording. Composed between 1918 and 1919, Elgar’s Concerto Op.85 was poorly received at its first performance but has since become established as one of the key works in the cello repertoire.
To complete the program, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker rejoins her chamber music partners, the violinists Carolin Widmann and David McCarroll, the violist Pauline Sachse and the pianist Martin Helmchen, in Elgar’s Piano Quintet, composed at the same time as the Concerto and premiered in London in 1919.
Here is Marie-Elisabeth Hexker in the third and 4th movements of the wonderful Elgar Cello Concerto:
