Composer: Luigi Boccherini
Performer: Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Francoise Rivalland, Amaryllis Billet, Robin Billet, Remi Magnan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2021
Size: 780 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cello Concerto in D Major, G. 479 (Transcribed by Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Françoise Rivalland)
01. I. Allegro
02. Cadenza by Eric Dolphy ‘God Bless the Child’
03. II. Adagio
04. Cadenza by Sonia Wieder-Atherton ‘Sur les traces de Miles Davis’
05. III. Allegro
Cello Concerto in C Major, G. 477 (Transcribed by Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Françoise Rivalland)
06. I. Allegro
07. Cadenza by Michael Riesman
08. II. Largo
09. Cadenza by Sonia Wieder-Atherton
10. III. Allegro
11. Cadenza by Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Françoise Rivalland
Cello Concerto in D Major, G. 476 (Transcribed by Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Françoise Rivalland)
12. I. Allegro)
13. Cadenza by Igor Stravinsky ‘Suite italienne’
14. II. Largo
15. Cadenza by György Kurtág ‘Un brin de bruyère à Witold’
16. III. Allegro piacere
17. Cadenza by George Frideric Handel, Excerpt from ‘Alcina’
‘Why arrange Boccherini concertos? To bring out the colours, rhythms, dances, melodies and countermelodies. To reinvent our roles or to exchange them like a game, from one page to another. To make us feel as if we’re on a tightrope. To take advantage of the space of freedom provided by the cadenza to imagine little musical scenarios, stories within the story. Like dreams that have their own logic, their own timescale. So those dreams suddenly yet imperceptibly plunge us into repetitive music, a procession in Spain, a jazz cadenza, an opera… and then we emerge to be reunited with Boccherini, who seems to be the first to enjoy these escapades.’ – Sonia Wieder-Atherton