Cello Suites Nos 1 & 2

Description

Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has always sought to make music a language open to the world. At 25, she won the Rostropovich Competition. She is the preferred interpreter for many contemporary composers, such as Pascal Dusapin and Wolfgang Rihm, and the voice of her cello also meets the voices of actresses Fanny Ardant and Charlotte Rampling, as well as filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Sonia Wieder-Atherton has signed an editorial partnership with Alpha Classics, which begins with a recording dedicated to Bach's Cello Suites, featuring Suites Nos. 1 and 2. In this volume and the two that will follow (Suites 3 to 6), we find photographs by the great Sarah Moon: "For me, playing Bach's suites is always, at one point or another, seeing the image of Giacometti's hands tirelessly molding the earth until a face appears. (...) Grappling with Bach's suites is very similar to that. It's about digging into the string until the phrase emerges, along with its proper breathing (...). And then there was the encounter with Sarah Moon. When my desire to record Bach's suites arose, I dreamt of her images. Because when I look at them, I imagine the creation of the world, the separation of the waters, the appearance of the earth, before history began." --- Sonia Wieder-Atherton ---.