Composer: Alberto Ginastera, Ursula Mamlok, Marcel Mihalovici, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Sandor Veress
Performer: Adele Bitter
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: EDA
Catalogue: EDA 47
Release: 2022
Size: 300 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Veress: Sonata for solo violoncello
01. I. Dialogo
02. II. Monologo
03. III. Epilogo
Mamlok: Fantasy Variations
04. I. Pensive
05. II. Casual
06. III. With increasing excitement
07. IV. Dreamy
Mihalovici: Sonata for Solo Cello
08. I. Grave
09. II. Allegro moderato
10. III. Mosso
11. IV. Molto adagio
12. V. Allegro non troppo
Saygun: Partita ‘To the Memory of Friedrich Schiller’, Op. 31
13. I. Lento
14. II. Vivo
15. III. Adagio
16. IV. Allegretto
17. V. Allegro moderato
Ginastera: Puneña No. 2 for solo cello, Op. 45
18. I. Harawi
19. II. Wayno Karnavalito
Crossroads – Crossroads where people meet. Crossroads at which composers were compelled to leave their personal, family, and linguistic homes. In the second half of the last century, these musicians experienced flight, expulsion, and exile, and fortunately found their ‘home’ in their music and in their artistic environment. The works for violoncello recorded here describe a journey through various worlds, at the end of which one is probably certain to have arrived at home again – but enriched by insights into the interstices in which different musical cultures suddenly grow together – and possibly with a different feeling for the term ‘home.’ During the past centuries, the violoncello as a solo instrument has increasingly been entrusted with virtuoso works of strong character. This instrument, like no other, can sing of the different emotional states, describe landscapes, lament hardships, and extend an invitation to dance. The works brought together on this CD bear witness to this.