- Ralf Gothóni, Lynn Harrell, Kremerata Baltica, Julius Berger, Natalia Gutman, Pavel Gililov, Miklós Perényi, Sebastian Hess, Jascha Nemtsov, Mischa Maisky, Arto Noras, Andreas Brantelid, Andrei Pushkarev, Giovanni Sollima, Young-Chang Cho, Gary Hoffman, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Schwabe, David Geringas, Lucianne Brady, Eun-Sun Hong, Neeme Järvi, Monika Leskovar, Leonard Elschenbroich, Sabine Ambos, Gidon Kremer, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, David Selig, Cellissimo, Viatcheslav Poprugin, László Fenyö, Ula Ulijona
Lynn Harrell
Biography
American cellist Lynn Harrell was a deeply thoughtful yet urgently spontaneous musician who excelled equally as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher/mentor. Born in 1944 in Manhattan, he studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School and then Orlando Cole at the Curtis Institute. He looked set for a solo career, but losing both (musical) parents in quick succession during his teenage years left him feeling in need of an alternative family, so between 1964 and 1971 he played principal cello with the greatest distinction under George Szell at the Cleveland Orchestra. Rave notices following a Lincoln Center recital with conductor/pianist James Levine led directly to the first of more than 80 recordings, initially with RCA and then (mostly) Decca and EMI/Warner. His outstanding musical partnership with pianist/conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is highlighted by probingly sensitive yet exhilarating accounts of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto (rec. 1982 with the Philharmonia Orchestra) and Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata (rec. 1984). Harrell died in 2020, aged 76.