Sol Gabetta's encore - Manchester 14 Oct

[LeMartinPecheur]

I posted this (now slightly edited) on the recent concerts thread but nobody came back with an answer

We also got some encores, the Lone Ranger section of a certain Rossini overture at the end, and one I couldn't identify after the Elgar. It was a slowish Romantic/ post-Romantic cantabile accompanied by just the cello section playing mainly tremolando and without conductor, and it finished on a very high note - soloist's finger right at the bottom of the finger-board, presumably on the top string though it might have been a harmonic. I'd really like to know what it was!

Can anyone please identify it so I can write up my concert diary properly?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Was this broadcast, LMP? I can't find it on the i-Player.

[subcontrabass]

See http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....water-10263138

[Serial_Apologist]

An "inspired" guess would be the Aria and Cantilena movement from Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No 6 in an enlarged arrangement, but minus Victoria de los Angeles!

[LeMartinPecheur]

See http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....water-10263138

Many thanks scb. Who's this guy 'Casal' though?

fhg: no mikes were visible

S_A: I thought about saying it definitely wasn't V-L's BB6, but decided that would be obvious

[subcontrabass]

Many thanks scb. Who's this guy 'Casal' though?

Looks like a typo for Pablo Casals. The melody is a Catalan song which Casals arranged and played frequently. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_cant_dels_ocells

[LeMartinPecheur]

Looks like a typo for Pablo Casals. The melody is a Catalan song which Casals arranged and playd frequently. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_cant_dels_ocells

Exactly what I was thinking - should perhaps have added a though.

[Richard Tarleton]

Here's Casals playing it at the UN in 1971. I think it's a favourite cellist encore? - I've heard N Clein play it....