Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014) (2015)

performed by Matt Haimovitz (cello)
composed by Adrian Pop, Ana Sokolovic, David Sanford, Du Yun, Elliott Carter, Gilles Tremblay, György Ligeti, John Lennon, Lewis Spratlan, Luciano Berio, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luna Pearl Woolf, Matt Haimovitz, Ned Rorem, Osvaldo Golijov, Paul Moravec, Philip Glass

On this 2015 compilation of contemporary solo cello music, Matt Haimovitz presents a diverse program of past performances, drawn from his recordings on Oxingale Records. The selections have been remastered for HD sound by PentaTone, so the audio quality of these three hybrid SACDs is superior to the sound of the first releases, which appeared on the albums Anthem (2003), Goulash! (2005), After Reading Shakespeare (2007), Figment (2009), and Matteo (2011). The selections range from popular music to the avant-garde, and ... Read More

On this 2015 compilation of contemporary solo cello music, Matt Haimovitz presents a diverse program of past performances, drawn from his recordings on Oxingale Records. The selections have been remastered for HD sound by PentaTone, so the audio quality of these three hybrid SACDs is superior to the sound of the first releases, which appeared on the albums Anthem (2003), Goulash! (2005), After Reading Shakespeare (2007), Figment (2009), and Matteo (2011). The selections range from popular music to the avant-garde, and Haimovitz explores major examples of modern cello music, from Luigi Dallapiccola's Ciaconna, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) to Philip Glass' Orbit (2014), and embraces many of the trends that make up contemporary music, including a virtuoso arrangement by Luna Pearl Woolf of the Beatles' Helter Skelter. ~ Blair Sanderson, Rovi Read Less