9.3.2026
A Landmark Debut: Pablo Ferrández with Kirill Petrenko at the BBC Proms
Pablo Ferrández
"Ferrandez made the work his own in the sorrowful slow movement. The entire work had an earthy kind of realness to it – just the right amount of live jeopardy – to make this an unexpected recommended listen from this year’s season. Surprising it has taken as long as it has to see Ferrández debut at the Proms. His diary must have been very full."
"The cellist's playing was all the more remarkable for keeping to a minimum the emotional portamento,
that carrying from one note to another which so many of his colleagues overdo, and he went straight to the heart of the Adagio."
"Pablo Ferrández is nevertheless an impressive cellist, and established himself immediately with gutsy attack"