OR Couperin & Vivaldi Sonia Wieder-Atherton

• Francois Couperin (1668 - 1733): Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix:
• 1 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: Incipit lamentio (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 01:01
• 2 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: Aleph (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 02:51
• 3 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: Beth (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 05:28
• 4 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: Guimel (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 02:59
• 5 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: Daleth (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 03:52
• 6 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: He (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 03:37
• 7 Couperin: Première leçon de ténèbres à une voix: Jerusalem (Arr. for Cello and Synthesizer by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 03:44
• Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix:
• 8 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix: Yod & Caph (Arr. for Cello and Electric Guitar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 03:07
• 9 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix: Lamed (Arr. for Cello and Electric Guitar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 02:30
• 10 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix: Vav (Arr. for Cello and Electric Guitar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 02:46
• 11 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix: Mem (Arr. for Cello and Electric Guitar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 01:22
• 12 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix: Nun (Arr. for Cello and Electric Guitar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 03:22
• 13 Couperin: Troisième leçon de ténèbres à deux voix: Jerusalem (Arr. for Cello and Electric Guitar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton) 02:17
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Le jugement (After Farnace, RV 711, Gelido in ogni vena):
• 14 Vivaldi: Le jugement (After Farnace, RV 711, Gelido in ogni vena) 07:46
• Comme une danse (After Tieteberga, RV 737, Sento in seno):
• 15 Vivaldi: Comme une danse (After Tieteberga, RV 737, Sento in seno) 02:58
• L’autre visage (After Il Giustino, RV 717, Vedro con mio diletto):
• 16 Vivaldi: L’autre visage (After Il Giustino, RV 717, Vedro con mio diletto) 04:07
• Sur les traces (After Concerto for Two Violins and Cello in G Minor, Op. 3, No. 2, RV 578a: II. Adagio):
• 17 Vivaldi: Sur les traces (After Concerto for Two Violins and Cello in G Minor, Op. 3, No. 2, RV 578a: II. Adagio) 01:47
• L’enfant (After Violin Concerto No. 3 in F Major, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno": II. Adagio molto):
• 18 Vivaldi: L’enfant (After Violin Concerto No. 3 in F Major, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno": II. Adagio molto) 03:45
• Le jugement 2e version ou Le bruit du monde (After Farnace, Gelido in ogni vena):
• 19 Vivaldi: Le jugement 2e version ou Le bruit du monde (After Farnace, Gelido in ogni vena) 08:13
• Total Runtime 01:07:32

Info for OR Couperin & Vivaldi

For her new recording, entitled ‘Or’ (light), cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has devised a two-part narrative, ‘a series of freeze-frames, like incursions into time’: first, Couperin’s Les leçons de ténèbres or the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. Prophecies are created in the time before. Before destruction and tears: ‘We hear the prophet’s song of lamentation, although the possibility that this might not come to pass still exists.'

Then comes ‘our time’: ‘Vivaldi’s dramatic power brings us face to face with the present. He says ”It’s here now”.’ Sonia has chosen several excerpts from his operas and from two violin concertos. She transcribed most of the pieces in this programme for solo cello or two cellos, two voices that she plays herself. She also imagined bridges to other lights, those of Mahut’s percussion and Marius Atherton’s electric guitar and MS20 synthesizer.

Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello
Marius Atherton, guitar, synthesizer
Mahut, percussion
Nicolas Worms, synthesizer

Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Born to an American father and a French mother, Paris-based cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton has an unusually wide-ranging repertoire and performs with international orchestras, conductors and pianists. Several contemporary composers, such as Wolfgang Rihm and Pascal Dusapin, have written works for her. Sonia Wieder-Atherton often organises unconventional, carefully conceived programmes. An additional facet of her artistic activity is her productive collaboration with the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

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