Anastasia Kobekina - Venice (CD)

Sony Masterworks

£13.05

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 19658828072
Barcode: 196588280726
Release Date: 02 Feb 2024
Genre: Classical

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.

TRACKLISTING
Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643

1 Lamento d’Arianna
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso continuo in A minor RV 419
Konzert für Cello, Streicher und Basso continuo a-Moll

2 III Allegro
Valentin Silvestrov *1937

3 Abendserenade
Evening Serenade
from Stille Musik
John Dowland 1563–1626

4 Go, Crystal Tears
from The First Booke of Songes

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso continuo in D minor RV 405
Konzert für Cello, Streicher und Basso continuo d-Moll

5 I [Allegro]

6 II Adagio

7 III Allegro
Caroline Shaw *1982

8 Limestone & Felt
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello BWV 974
Konzert d-Moll nach Alessandro Marcello

9 II Adagio
Benjamin Britten 1913–1976
Suite for Solo Cello No. 3 op. 87

10 IV Barcarolla
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso continuo in E-flat major RV 408
Konzert für Cello, Streicher und Basso continuo Es-Dur

11 II Largo
Nino Rota 1911–1979
12 Canto della Buranella
Music from the film Il Casanova di Federico Fellini
Barbara Strozzi 1619–1677

13 Che si può fare?
Brian Eno *1948 / Jon Hopkins *1979 / Leo Abrahams * 1977

14 Emerald and Stone
Arrangement: Matthias Spindler
György Kurtág *1926

15 Árnyak
Shadows · Schatten
from Jelek, játékok és üzenetek

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso continuo in G minor RV 416
Konzert für Cello, Streicher und Basso continuo g-Moll

16 I Allegro

17 II Adagio

18 III Allegro
Gabriel Fauré 1845–1924

19 Les berceaux op. 23/1

Antonio Sartorio 1630–1680
L’orfeo

20 Orfeo, tu dormi

21 Se desti pietà
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Cello, Strings, Basso continuo and Bassoon obligato
in E minor RV 409

Konzert für Cello, Streicher, Basso continuo und obligates Fagott e-Moll

22 III Allegro
Vladimir Kobekin *1947

23 Ariadne’s Lament
Variations on a Theme by Claudio Monteverdi