Composer: Molly Joyce, Camille El-Bacha, Oscar Bettison, Immanuel Wilkins, Stewart Goodyear
Performer: Inbal Segev
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avie
Release: 2022
Size: 554 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Joyce: It Has Not Taken Long For You To Break for Cello and Electronics
02. El-Bacha: Between The Worlds for Piano Trio
03. Bettison: La Hija Del Neón for Cello, Piano and Electric Guitar
04. Wilkins: Exhale for Solo Cello
05. Goodyear: The Kapok for Cello and Piano
The convergence of cataclysmic events of 2020 spurred cellist Inbal Segev to conceive an ambitious and inspirational commissioning project, “20 for 2020”, for which she asked 20 composers to document in music their responses to the challenges posed by the pandemic and social unrest. The result is an utterly moving and immensely varied palette of strong and distinctive compositional voices spanning a range of ages, genders and cultures.
When Inbal conceived “20 for 2020”, she could not have foreseen the scope of musical imagination from the 20 composers she asked to write works for her. Further pronouncing her passion for promoting new works for her instrument: “Art needs to move forward, otherwise it will die”. Collectively these compositions celebrate a stunning array of music for the soulful sound of the cello in the 21st century.