Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:17 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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“For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti’s hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is very closely related to that sense. You have to dig deeply into the string to give birth to the phrase, to make sure it breathes correctly: a phrase that is perpetually becoming, endlessly making and remaking itself. I waited a long time before recording these suites. Then one day, or rather one night, I began.Then there was my meeting with Sarah Moon. When I first felt my longing to record the Bach suites, I dreamt constantly of her images; because whenever I look at them I think of the creation of the world, the separation of the waters, the earth appearing, all before the beginning of history.”

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Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:57:17 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classique
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Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Chants Juifs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:24 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Classical
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This cycle of Jewish Songs is born of my research on traditional Hebrew music, a deeply rooted ancient music which has accompanied the Jewish people throughout centuries of wandering. I listened to the liturgical melodies from different sources and was mostly inspired by the art of singing of the Jewish cantors or Hazzans, in particular by their very expressive, but contained, interior way of singing. It is music in which the sacred and popular intermingle. Whether lighthearted or sad, slow or fast, prayer, popular song or dance, it is always shared, always intimate. It felt also as though I had always known this music, even before I was born. It was a very strange sensation. Chants juifs , the iconic recording that has remained a milestone in cellist Sonia Wieder- Atherton’s career, is now available again.

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Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Cadenza (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:22 minutes | 780 MB | Genre: Classical
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Why arrange Boccherini concertos? To bring out the colours, rhythms, dances, melodies and countermelodies. To reinvent our roles or to exchange them like a game, from one page to another. To make us feel as if we’re on a tightrope. To take advantage of the space of freedom provided by the cadenza to imagine little musical scenarios, stories within the story. Like dreams that have their own logic, their own timescale. So those dreams suddenly yet imperceptibly plunge us into repetitive music, a procession in Spain, a jazz cadenza, an opera… and then we emerge to be reunited with Boccherini, who seems to be the first to enjoy these escapades.’ – Sonia Wieder-Atherton Concertos G479, 477, 476 by Luigi Boccherini. Cadenzas by Sonia WiederAtherton ‘in the footsteps of Miles Davis’, Eric Dolphy, G. F. Handel, Igor Stravinsky, György Kurtág, Michael Riesman.

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Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:36 minutes | 887 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has always sought to make music a language open to the world. A prizewinner in the Rostropovich Competition at the age of twenty-five, she is the interpreter of choice for many contemporary composers, among them Pascal Dusapin and Wolfgang Rihm, while the voice of her cello also encounters the voices of actresses such as Fanny Ardant and Charlotte Rampling, as well as the film director Chantal Akerman.

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