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Hindemith, Heiden, Skolnik - Works for Cello and Piano | Cybele CYBELESACD361804

Hindemith, Heiden, Skolnik - Works for Cello and Piano

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Label: Cybele

Cat No: CYBELESACD361804

Barcode: 0809548019129

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 8th February 2019

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About

“I have already been asked many times,” says Cécile Grüebler, “why I have still not recorded any CDs. The reason is that I do not want merely to play beautiful works, but rather tell a story and design a programme whose aim is connecting people and generations and showing a new musical path.”

The Swiss cellist has now found such a programme, and the “musical path” is immediately clear in that the three composers featured on this SACD are linked by teacher–pupil relationships.

How this project came into being is a minor miracle to Cécile Grüebler: in 2017, with her long-time duo partner, the pianist Tamara Chitadze, she happened to cross the trail of Hindemith while on an extended stay in New York: “As I was walking on the streets, cello in tow, I got wrapped up in a thrilling conversation with the Manhattan-based 80-plus-year-old composer Walter Skolnik. Many hours of music-making together ensued, and I was allowed to listen in on stories from his student days. I learned that the German-American Bernhard Heiden had studied with Hindemith and later became Walter Skolnik’s most important teacher. By the time I returned home, I had a fully-formed idea for a project in mind, which is a labour of love that also makes sense musically...”

This sense is twofold: to start, the quality of the selected works and secondarily, the fact that two of the three composers are virtually unknown in Europe and their music is hardly ever heard here.

The Swiss cellist Cécile Grüebler and the Georgian pianist Tamara Chitadze met in 2007 while both were students at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. After years of joint concert appearances, and bound by a passion for a chamber music, the two young artists formed the Duo Grüebler / Chitadze in 2014. The two share not only high standards of performance but also a delight in discovering new repertory. One of the duo’s strengths is its elaboration of unconventional, thematically-linked programmes in which lesser-known works are combined with classics from the duo repertory.

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