Anastasia Kobekina - Venice
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Anastasia Kobekina - Venice
Anastasia Kobekina (cello) / Basel Chamber Orchestra
[ Sony Classical / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 24 May 2024
Venice, Which Showcases Many Sides Of Anastasia Kobekina's Artistry, Draws Listeners Away From The Lugubrious Gondoliers And Carnival Masks That Have Provided Our Standard Musical Image Of Venice. Instead, The Album Asks How Much Of What We've Internalized About The Iconic City Is Actually Real. 'Venice Feels Not Just A City But An Idea, A Character In Itself,' Says The Cellist; 'Or Maybe It Presents A Different Character To Each Of Us. It Asks Questions Of You, Fires Your Imagination.'
Her Album, On Which Kobekina Is Joined By A Team Of Handpicked Soloists And The Basel Chamber Orchestra, Presents An Embracing, Personal Conversation Between Past And Present, Including Music From The Renaissance Of Claudio Monteverdi And John Dowland To The Twenty-First-Century Of Brian Eno And Caroline Shaw.
"The Red Priest's cello concertos flaunt Kobekina's electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder's spirited direction. Yet beyond the fireworks there's real musicality: Kobekina is thoroughly conversant with Baroque style and she draws a mellifluous, multi-hued sound, never over-egging it with too much vibrato." BBC Music
"The inclusion of Gabriel Fauré, Nino Rota, György Kurtág and Brian Eno challenges any narrow baroque assumptions we may have about music of that city, while also - obligingly - fulfilling our expectations...The programme is singular and intimate, less about virtuosic solo cello than ensemble musicianship, and all the better for it." The Guardian
Tracks:
Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna 'Lasciatemi morire', SV 107
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in A Minor, RV 419: III. Allegro
Sylvestrov: Abendserenade
Dowland: Go Crystal tears
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in D minor, RV405
Shaw, C: Limestone & Felt
Bach, J S: Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio (After Marcello)
Britten: Suite No. 3 for cello solo, Op. 87
IV. Barcarolla
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in E flat major, RV 408
II. Largo
Rota, N: Canto della Buranella (From "Il Casanova di Federico Fellini")
Strozzi: Che si può fare
Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams: Emerald and Stone
Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Árnyak (Shadows)
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in G minor, RV416
Fauré: Les berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1
Sartorio: Se desti pietà (from Orfeo)
Vivaldi: Concerto for Cello and Bassoon in E Minor, RV 409: III. Allegro
Kobekin: Ariadne's Lament (Variations on a Theme by Claudio Monteverdi)
