Cellaro / Apulia Cello Soloists Apulia Cello Soloists CD

The eight cellists, protagonists of this recording project, invite us to a diachronic musical journey, where the voice of the cello, expressing itself in all it's registers, makes compositions and composers different in terms of age, style, and language speak. Moving from the baroque phrasing of Pietro Migali, through three different lyrical souls represented very well by Mercadante, Giordano and van Westerhout, we reach the contemporaries Cellaro, Rota, Piazzolla and Sollima; it seems to be witnessing an elevation ad astra, where the voice of the cello emerges from the hiding of it's ancient and constant work of support and solid base, slowly emerges from it's gravity and makes us taste the "humanity" of it's most lyrical and unexplored accents. The program chosen by the ensemble offers the listener a masterly essay on the versatility of the cello, which is able to navigate, over a period of almost four centuries, between the instrumental and vocal repertoire, passing through the classical and popular dances. The arrangements give the compositions particular and unusual colors, due to the nature of the instrument, to which it's given the possibility to express itself simultaneously in different ways and registers, offering a complete spectrum of it's expressive abilities; listening to the album, one senses that the cello gradually tries to abstract itself from the repertoire and practices so that it can freely describe and narrate itself.