Blackbirds

Blackbirds

Blackbirds

Blackbirds

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Blackbirds

A Powerful Cello Tapestry Of Modern Voices And Poetic Simplicity.

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Label Alpha Classics

Artists Nicolas Altstaedt, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev

€29,99 EUR

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Nicolas Altstaedt's starting point for Blackbirds was the magnificent Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Polish composer Grażyna 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 favorite 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.

Nicolas Altstaedt, Violoncello Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor & Piano

Tracklist

Total time: 58:34

1. Cello Concerto No. 2: I. Allegro fantastico

06:00

2. Cello Concerto No. 2: II. Adagio

04:47

3. Cello Concerto No. 2: III. Allegro

06:07

4. Durations II for Cello and Piano

04:28

5. Cello Sonata, Op. 65: I. Dialogo

07:08

6. Cello Sonata, Op. 65: II. Scherzo

02:18

7. Cello Sonata, Op. 65: III. Elegia

05:40

8. Cello Sonata, Op. 65: IV. Marcia

02:04

9. Cello Sonata, Op. 65: V. Moto Perpetuo

02:37

10. Sonata for Solo Violoncello: I. Dialogo. Allegro Moderato

06:44

11. Sonata for Solo Violoncello: II. Monologo. Larghetto

04:28

12. Sonata for Solo Violoncello: III. Epilogo. Allegro

02:34

13. Blackbird

03:39

Additional Information

Label

Alpha Classics

SKU

ALPHA1213

Qualities

DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, WAV 96 kHz, DSD 64, DXD 24 Bit

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artists

Nicolas Altstaedt, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev

Composers

Bacewicz, Feldman, Britten, Veress, Lennon, McCartney

Conductors

Maxim Emelyanychev

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

PCM 96k

Recording Engineer

Hugo Romano Guimarães

Editing

Hugo Romano Guimarães

Release Date

April 10, 2026

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Not Available on SACD

Reviews

Gramophone

Christian Hoskins

Altstaedt’s musical partnership with Maxim Emelyanychev is as impressive in Britten’s Cello Sonata as it is in the Bacewicz concerto… with similarly fine performances of the other movements, this is an outstanding version of the sonata.

Source: www.gramophone.co.uk

Blackbirds

Blackbirds

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