After performing concerts at the Cello Biennale Amsterdam and the Parco della Musica in Rome, cellist Giovanni Sollima conducts the Music Up Close Cello Ensemble in Barcelona, a group that features young cellists selected by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (Amsterdam) and L’Auditori.
This project, which forms part of the European Music Up Close Network cooperation programme, has given young people the opportunity to work with the celebrated Italian cellist who has devised a repertoire that enables us to travel through Europe and the traditions of its countries. It is the “story of a history”, exploring cultures that are seemingly distant but that have become interconnected and continue to fuse today.
This concert is the result of the co-production between the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (Amsterdam) and L’Auditori de Barcelona.
Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan (Father Komitas)
(Kütahya, Turkey 1869 – Villejuif, France 1935)
Krunck, trad. Armenia – arr. G. Sollima
Vincenzo Bellini (Catania, Italy 1801 – Puteaux, France 1835)
Symphony Adelson e Salvini – arr. G. Sollima
Egberto Gismonti (Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1947)
Ceco Aderaldo – arr. G. Sollima
Luigi Boccherini (Lucca, Italy 1743 – Madrid, Spain 1805)
Fandango – arr. G. Sollima
Niccolò van Westerhout (Mola di Bari, Italy 1857 – Naples, Italy 1898)
Romanza
Pau Casals(El Vendrell, Spain 1876 – San Juan, Puerto Rico 1973)
La Sardana
Giovanni Sollima (Palermo, Italy 1962)
Ako Umram il Zaginam, trad. Macedonia
Pixinguinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1897 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1973)
Jaques Morelenbaum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1954)
Segura Ele
Giovanni Sollima (Palermo, Italy 1962)
Bêri (from Ellis Island)
Fronni d’alia<7em> and Pizzica Indiavolata, trad. Salento