3701624512135

Blackbirds

Nicolas Altstaedt; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev

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Format: CD

Cat No: ALPHA1213

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Release Date:  10 April 2026

Label:  Outhere / Alpha

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  3701624512135

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Blackbirds

  • Description

    Nicolas Altstaedt'sstarting point for this recordingwas the magnificent Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): "On reading through the work for the first time, I immediately thought: why is this never played? Astonishing, how with just a few notes she can make a whole world appear." Pianist and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Swedish Radio Orchestra and accompanieshis friend ina work composed two years earlier: Benjamin Britten's Sonata for Cello and Piano, as well as a work by Morton Feldman from 1960,Durations II... Next comesa sonata by Sandor Veress, one of Altstaedt's favourite composers, this time for solo cello: composed in 1967, this landmark work in the solo cello repertoire completes this overviewof music fromthe 1960s, which concludes with a live recording of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's famous Blackbird,recordedwith Thomas Dunford on lute and vocals, in a church in Portugalas the bells strike midnight.