Introducing Autumn 2026! 📢

Our brand new season at the @southbankcentre's Royal Festival Hall has just been unveiled.

Highlights include:
💫 Cellist @solgabetta and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii (Nobu) join us as Featured Artists
🎵 Herbert Blomstedt conducts Bruckner 5 at the age y superstar violinists @JamesEhnes, @EstherYooViolin and @NickyBenedetti, and pianists @EmanuelAx, @SeongJinCho and Nobu.
🎶 @GeraldFinley and @DianaDamrau perform Brahms's German Requiem
🔥 We present the UK premiere of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Let us know what you are most looking forward to!

Booking opens as follows:
Wednesday 22 April, 10am | Philharmonia Patrons
Thursday 23 April, 10am | Philharmonia Friends
Tuesday 28 April, 10am | General booking opens

Find out more:
philharmonia.co.uk/seasons/london…

We are embarking on our Europe📷 tour «Lise Cristiani» with Cappella Gabetta from 6-14 December 2025.
🔹6.12 bozarbrussels
🔹8.12 Prinzregententheater
🔹9.12 theaterbielefeld
🔹10.12 Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
🔹11.12 Tonhalle Düsseldorf
🔹13.12 Kölner Philharmonie

🙏🖤Merci à @solgabetta qui a accepté d'interpréter pour Javier Cercas, et pour notre public, la suite pour violoncelle nᵒ 1 en sol majeur, BWV 1007, du compositeur allemand Jean-Sébastien Bach.

Sur @franceinter ce matin 📻💃
#lisecristiani “Le nouvel album de Sol Gabetta”
radiofrance.fr/franceinter/po…
@annasigalevitch @AliBaddou

📷 I’m thrilled to share this deeply personal album, inspired by the fascinating Lise Cristiani — the first female cello virtuoso and a true pioneer of her time.

📷 Available now on all streaming platforms and in classical record stores and here :lise-cristiani.com

Just received! Out today 🎶
lise-cristiani.com

Ahead of the release of my new album dedicated to Lise Cristiani (out this Friday, October 10)
@ARTEfr broadcasts a documentary by Simone Jung, following me in the footsteps of this visionary 19th-century cellist and fearless traveler.
🎥arte.tv/fr/videos/0975…

✨“Pioneering Spirit” in the October issue of Gramophone..! a celebration of 19th-century cellist Lise Cristiani!
gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…​
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#NewAlbum #LiseCristiani #SolGabetta #Gramophone

✨Third single from my upcoming album✨

On the trail of the extraordinary cellist Lise Cristiani (1825–1853)🎻

🎶Franz Schubert – Ständchen arr. Alexandre Batta – Sérénade

🎧Available now on all platforms. gabetta.lnk.to/LiseCristiani
📀The full album will be released on October.

On 21 September, @Munich_Phil continue their Vienna residency with future chief conductor Lahav Shani. From Schubert’s Unfinished to Wagner’s Tristan and Elgar’s Cello Concerto with @solgabetta. 🎻✨

🎻 September on stage 🎶

Lalo Cello Concerto with @kammerorchester , Pierre Bleuse
• 04.09 – Delémont , Théâatre du Jura
• 06.09 – Bucharest, Filarmonica Enescu Romanian Atheneum
• 07.09 – Basel, Stadt Casino Basel 🎼

Elgar Cello Concerto with @Munich_Phil Lahav Shani
• 09 & 10.09 – Munich, Isar Philharmonie 🎻

Schostakowitch Cello Concerto nr.2 with Tonhalle Orchester Paavo Jarvi
• 17–19.09 – Zürich Tonhalle Zuerich

Elgar Cello Concerto with Munchner Philharmoniker, Lahav Shani
• 21.09 – Vienna Musikverein Wien 🎶

Duo with Patricia kopatchinskaja
• 28.09 – Zürich Tonhalle zuerich 🎻
#SolGabetta #SeptemberTour #Elgar #Shostakovich #TonhalleZurich #Isarphilharmonie #Musikverein

„Explosive Energie: Sol Gabetta fegt durch Schostakowitschs Cellokonzert“
⁦⁦@elbphilharmonie ⁦⁦@philharmonia⁩ @ndr⁩ ndr.de/kultur/musik/k…

🎼 Servais: Romanesca- Fameux Air de Danse du 16e Siècle by Francois Servais (1807-1866)
Second release from my new album Lise Cristiani
Like many of her contemporaries, Lise Cristiani enjoyed reviving themes from the distant past.

Jacques Offenbach also composed a version of La Romanesca, as well as a Musette based on a 17th-century air.
Lise Cristiani had a particular fondness for these nostalgic pieces with exotic accents, which featured almost systematically in her concert programmes.

🎧 Available now on all platforms : gabetta.lnk.to/LiseCristiani
📀 The full album will be released on October 10.
Photo cover: VictorMatussiere / Artwork: SpasskyFischer #SolGabetta #LiseCristiani #Romanesca #Servais #CelloLegacy #WomenInClassicalMusic #NewRelease #SonyClassical

🔉 Schubert’s Ave Maria arr. by Batta

Excited to share the first release from my new album dedicated to Lise Cristiani (1825–1853) — a trailblazing cellist who broke 19th-century social norms and brought classical music to places no one had dared to reach before.

🎻This track features Schubert’s Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III, Hymn to the Virgin, D839), one of six lieder transcribed for cello by Alexandre Batta in the late 1830s. Batta was close to Lise and gifted her many of his transcriptions and compositions, which she performed on stage

#SolGabetta #LiseCristiani #AveMaria #Schubert #ClassicalMusic #NewAlbum #Cello