Nicolas Altstaedt: Blackbirds - COMPACT DISCS

Nicolas Altstaedt: Blackbirds - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Blackbirds

Artist:

Nicolas Altstaedt

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3701624512135

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-04-10

Number of Discs:

1

Nicolas Altstaedt's starting point for this recording was the magnificent Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): "On reading through the work for the first time, I immediately thought: why is this never played? Astonishing, how with just a few notes she can make a whole world appear." Pianist and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Swedish Radio Orchestra and accompanies his friend in a work composed two years earlier: Benjamin Britten's Sonata for Cello and Piano, as well as a work by Morton Feldman from 1960, Durations II... Next comes a sonata by Sándor Veress, one of Altstaedt's favourite composers, this time for solo cello: composed in 1967, this landmark work in the solo cello repertoire completes this overview of music from the 1960s, which concludes with a live recording of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's famous Blackbird, recorded with Thomas Dunford on lute and vocals, in a church in Portugal as the bells strike midnight.

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