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Blackbirds: Music from the 1960s (Bacewicz, Britten, Feldman, Veress) | Alpha ALPHA1213

Blackbirds: Music from the 1960s (Bacewicz, Britten, Feldman, Veress)

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1213

Barcode: 3701624512135

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 10th April 2026

Contents

Artists

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Maxim Emelyanychev (piano)
Thomas Dunford (lute, voice)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

Works

Bacewicz, Grazyna

Cello Concerto no.2

Britten, Benjamin

Cello Sonata in C major, op.65

Feldman, Morton

Durations (4)
» no.2 for cello and piano

McCartney, Paul

Blackbird

Veress, Sandor

Sonata for solo cello

Artists

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Maxim Emelyanychev (piano)
Thomas Dunford (lute, voice)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

About

Nicolas Altstaedt's starting point for this recording was the magnificent Second Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Polish composer Grażyna 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 accompanies his friend in a 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 comes a sonata by Sándor 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 overview of music from the 1960s, which concludes with a live recording of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's famous Blackbird, recorded with Thomas Dunford on lute and vocals, in a church in Portugal as the bells strike midnight.

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