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Release Date: 27 February 2026
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3701624512036
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Or (Light)
Description
For her new recording, entitled 'Or' (light), cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, 'a series of freeze frames, like incursions into time': first, Couperin's Les lecons de tenebres or the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. Prophecies are created in the time before. Before destruction and tears: 'We hear the prophet's song of lamentation, although the possibility that this might not come to pass still exists.'
Then comes 'our time': 'Vivaldi's dramatic power brings us face to face with the present. He says "It's here now".' Sonia has chosen several excerpts from his operas and from two violin concertos. She transcribed most of the pieces in this programme for solo cello or two cellos, two voices that she plays herself. She also imagined bridges to other lights, those of Mahut's percussion and Marius Atherton's electric guitar and MS20 synthesiser.
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich; Paavo Jarvi
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Alain Altinoglu
La Nereide
Justin Taylor
Emmanuel Ceysson; Veronique Gens; Quatuor Voce
Barbara Hannigan; David Chalmin; Katia Labeque; Marielle Labeque
Ensemble Altera; Christopher Lowrey
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
