[ ECM New Series / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 18 October 2024
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For her first solo-violoncello album on ECM's New Series, Anja Lechner devotes herself to a particularly unique convergence of three composers from vastly different contexts: JS Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel and Tobias Hume. In the past, her extensive discography has captured the cellist as part of the renowned Rosamunde Quartett, as well as alongside seminal artists from both trans-idiomatic sound worlds and the realm of classical music, gracing her with rare musical farsightedness. With her distinct perspective on works composed for both violoncello and viola da gamba, Lechner sheds a fresh light on music written within a span of two centuries. Framing the first two solo suites from the famous group of six Bach wrote for the violoncello at its heart, the programme encompasses Abel and Hume compositions, originally conceived for viola da gamba, which are given new colour and breadth through Lechner's interpretation on cello - In parts newly arranged by herself. And at the end, as Kristina Maidt-Zinke notes in the album-accompanying liner notes, "one marvels at the lightness and inner logic with which three worlds have ever so gently touched one another". The album was recorded at the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich and produced by Manfred Eicher.
1
A Question
(Tobias Hume)
02:01
2
An Answer
(Tobias Hume)
02:45
3
Harke, Harke
(Tobias Hume)
02:37
4
Arpeggio in d-Moll
(Carl Friedrich Abel)
03:36
5
Adagio in d-Moll
(Carl Friedrich Abel)
04:52
Suite für Violoncello solo Nr. 1 in G-Dur, BWV 1007
(Johann Sebastian Bach)
6
Prélude
02:34
7
Allemande
04:38
8
Courante
02:54
9
Sarabande
03:18
10
Menuet I / II
03:29
11
Gigue
01:43
Suite für Violoncello solo Nr. 2 in d-Moll, BWV 1008
(Johann Sebastian Bach)
12
Prélude
04:00
13
Allemande
03:56
14
Courante
02:15
15
Sarabande
05:00
16
Menuet I / II
03:17
17
Gigue
02:58
18
Hit it in the middle
(Tobias Hume)
01:31
19
Tom and Mistresse Fine
(Tobias Hume)
01:50
20
The new Cut
(Tobias Hume)
01:35
21
A Pollish Ayre
(Tobias Hume)
01:32
22
Touch me lightly
(Tobias Hume)