VC Artist Cellist Pablo Ferrández's New Album, "Night Sessions Vol. 2"
Released on Sony Classical, the album features works by Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Schubert, and Glazunov, with each track connected to a personal memory
VC Artist and Spanish Cellist Pablo Ferrández has released his newest album, Night Sessions Vol. 2, on Sony Classical. Each track on the album is closely related to a personal memory of Pablo's. Opening with Edward Elgar's Salut d'Amour, the melody connects Pablo to his infancy where he heard Salut d'Amour every evening with his mother. "I recorded this song for her," he shared.
The album also includes Alexander Glazunov's Chant du ménestrel, Op. 71 which Pablo performed in the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow during his teenage years. Additional works include Saint-Saëns’ "The Swan," and an arrangement of Schumann’s "Du bist wie eine Blume."
Night Sessions Vol. 2 aims "to bring listeners with me into these pictures of my life," shared Pablo.
All four tracks on the album are in collaboration with French pianist Julien Quentin, who continues to explore new artistic visions and collaborations with artists.
To purchase and listen to the album, click here.
Listen to Salut d'Amour below
Cellist Pablo Ferrández was a prizewinner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition and is currently a Sony Classical exclusive artist. He released his debut album, Reflections in 2021, which won the Opus Klassik Award, followed by Brahms: Double Concerto & C. Schumann: Piano Trio, with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2022.
A graduate of the Queen Sofía College of Music and the Kronberg Academy, where he studied with Natalia Shakhovskaya and Frans Helmerson, Pablo is a former recipient of the coveted 2016 International Classical Music Awards ‘Young Artist of the Year’ accolade.
His recent debuts include solo engagements with the Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, HR-Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Queensland Symphony Orchestra — and collaborations with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Jurowski, Gidon Kremer and Robert Trevino.
january 2025