In this humanistic ode to nature, French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca presents a packed programme on the theme of saving the planet. He has invited a host of artists from all over the international music scene to add their voices to that of his own eloquent instrument, in a unique and unprecedented project of solidarity.

The cello, in the hands of Christian-Pierre La Marca, has often been compared to the human voice, in its handling of the melodic lines and curves, its flexibility, its lyrical intensity. Here it is mirrored in the voices of sopranos Sabine Devieilhe and Patricia Petibon, as well as the clarinet of Michel Portal, the pianos of Thomas Enhco, Baptiste Trotignon, Nathanaël Gouin and Thierry Escaich, the accordion of Félicien Brut and the double bass of Édouard Macarez, as well as the pop duo Lilly Wood & The Prick.

In addition, an ensemble of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris lends its support, with bespoke arrangements of a variety of pieces ranging through Arlen’s ‘Over the Rainbow’, Fauré’s song ‘Après un rêve’, ‘Summertime’ by Gershwin, ‘The Swan’ by Saint-Saëns, ‘I giorni’ by Ludovico Einaudi, ‘The Hours’ by Philip Glass and Kurt Weill’s ‘Lost in the Stars’.

As la Marca concludes, “This ode to nature is primarily a hymn to the idea of sharing. What I wanted – as well as bringing this programme to fruition – was to have a musical adventure alongside exceptional artists from different worlds and horizons. After all, isn’t that our mission as artists? To share with our audience, to move, to awaken consciences across the world?”

Contents:

CD 1
1. Fauré - Après un rêve
2. Arlen - Over the Rainbow
3. Portal - Habanera
4. R Strauss - Morgen!
5. Weill - Lost in the Stars
6. Loesser - I’ve Never Been in Love Before
7. Gershwin - Summertime
8. Glass - The Poet Acts
9. Say - Sivas, Hopa
10. Enhco - Prelude (of Wind and Water)
11. Dvořák - Silent Woods
12. Ramírez - Alfonsina y el mar
13. Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of Bumblebee
14. Guastavino - La rosa y el sauce
15. Saint-Saëns - Le Cygne
16. Lilly Wood & The Prick - You Want My Money

CD 2
1. Mancini - Moon River
2. Einaudi - I giorni
3. Piazzolla - Invierno porteño
4. Escaich-La Marca-Petibon - Awake of Nature (improvisation)
5. Frahm - Ambre
6. Escaich-La Marca-Petibon - Between Man and Nature (improvisation)
7. Tchaikovsky - Valse sentimentale
8. Traditional - Celtic Valse
9. Traditional-Stivell-Corbel Brian - Boru Renaissance
10. Bloch - Prayer
11. Trotignon - Fly
12. Thiele-Weiss - What a Wonderful World