Sonia Wieder-Atherton: Couperin & Vivaldi: Or (Light) - COMPACT DISCS

Sonia Wieder-Atherton: Couperin & Vivaldi: Or (Light) - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Couperin & Vivaldi: Or (Light)

Artist:

Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3701624512036

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-04-10

Number of Discs:

1

For her new recording, entitled Or (light), cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, "a series of freeze frames, like incursions into time": first, Couperin's Les leçons de ténèbres or the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. Prophecies are created in the time before. Before destruction and tears: "We hear the prophet's song of lamentation, although the possibility that this might not come to pass still exists."Then comes "our time": "Vivaldi's dramatic power brings us face to face with the present. He says, 'It's here now.'" Sonia has chosen several excerpts from his operas and from two violin concertos. She transcribed most of the pieces in this programme for solo cello or two cellos, two voices that she plays herself. She also imagined bridges to other lights, those of Mahut's percussion and Marius Atherton's electric guitar and MS20 synthesiser.

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