Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Profiles

Benjamin Britten
Suite pour violoncelle n° 3

Georges Aperghis
Profils pour violoncelle et zarb

Luigi Boccherini
Concerto pour violoncelle G.479 (arr. pour violoncelle, violon et cymbalum par Sonia Wieder-Atherton et Françoise Rivalland)

Embark on a journey East with this concert, in which Sonia Wieder-Atherton’s imaginative cello dialogues with the violin, the zarb – an Iranian percussion instrument – and the cimbalom. Written from Russian folk tunes, Benjamin Britten’s Cello Suite, composed in 1971 for Mstislav Rostropovitch, flourishes alongside the elegant style of 18th-century composer Luigi Boccherini and the inventive music of Georges Aperghis.

Photo : Sonia Wieder-Atherton © Jacques Grison.