Simone Drescher – Cellologue (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Simone Drescher – Cellologue (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:53 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © GWK Records

Simone Drescher’s solo album will be released in September 2024.

The six musical languages ​​that Simone Drescher brings to “Cellologue” on her second album, which is her first solo album, are highly emotional and expressive. The award-winning virtuoso has recorded works that are deeply touching and with which she completely identifies: “Cellologue” is the language of her soul. The interpreter does not just perform the music, but lives it with body, soul and mind. Her playing leaves nothing to be desired in terms of intensity and energy, drama, expressiveness and depth, but also, when necessary, lightness and a wink. At the same time, it opens the sound to silence. It is the silence of everything that cannot be expressed in words and is also expressed in music only through the silence that the music sometimes creates.Casals’s Suite for Cello Solo, a romantic homage to his brother Pau/Pablo in Bach’s D minor and formally based on his partitas, is characterized by a tragic underlying feeling. Mansurian’s Capriccio, which is inspired by Bach’s Capriccio in B major, is permeated by a lamentation, then a light farewell motif that ends in silence. In his “Book for Cello”, Vasks contrasts the noise and aggressiveness of the world with the attempt “to speak about the most important things in life, about love, which are actually ‘unspeakable'” (Vasks). The cello is surprisingly accompanied by vocal singing from the cellist, until both lose themselves in silence at the end. The French composer David Chaillou was inspired to compose “L’Oiseau” by Simone Drescher’s interpretation of Vasks’ “Grāmata čellam” – and in it he interweaves the melodic line of the cello with the singing of the cellist, who is the dedicatee. “L’Oiseau” – a first recording – is about regaining the fluidity of air and breath, conveying the illusion of flight. Tsintsadze’s plucked “Chonguri” flies like a dance, Pau Casals’ “Song of the Birds” soars and moves the heart, singing “Peace, Peace, Peace”. The great cellist and discoverer of Bach’s cello suites ended his concerts with the Catalan song.

Tracklist:

01. Simone Drescher – Casals: Cello Suite in D Minor “Hommage à Pablo Casals” in D Minor: I. Prelude (03:58)
02. Simone Drescher – Casals: Cello Suite in D Minor “Hommage à Pablo Casals” in D Minor: II. Scherzando (01:57)
03. Simone Drescher – Casals: Cello Suite in D Minor “Hommage à Pablo Casals” in D Minor: III. Elegia (05:52)
04. Simone Drescher – Casals: Cello Suite in D Minor “Hommage à Pablo Casals” in D Minor: IV. Finale (03:08)
05. Simone Drescher – Mansurian: Capriccio (10:50)
06. Simone Drescher – Vasks: Grāmata čellam: I. Fortissimo (06:33)
07. Simone Drescher – Vasks: Grāmata čellam: II. Pianissimo (07:56)
08. Simone Drescher – Chaillou: L’oiseau (06:33)
09. Simone Drescher – Tsintsadze: 5 Pieces on Folk Themes: No. 2, Chonguri (01:34)
10. Simone Drescher – Casals: El cant dels ocells (03:27)

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