Credits:

Gromes, Raphaela / Festival Strings Lucerne

Description:

The new two-disc set by Germany's hottest cellist, Rafael Gromes, features works by female composers. Rafael Gromes has earned a reputation for excellent, brilliant, passionate, and expressive cello playing, and since 2017 has released six albums on Sony Classical, each unique in its own right. The world premiere recording of works by R. Strauss and Julius Klengel in 2020 was described as "a performance that captures the charm of these works as if they were overflowing with romanticism," and the 2019 Offenbach collection won the Opus Klassik Award 2020. When asked, "Why don't you make an album of works by female composers?" Gromes was astonished to learn that there were only a few women composers that she knew of. She then waded through the works of various women composers and selected beautiful works from the Middle Ages to the present by 23 women composers, from Hildegard von Bingen and Clara Schumann to Billie Eilish, to create this two-CD masterpiece.Half was recorded with the Lucerne Festival String Orchestra, the other half with cello and piano, and many pieces were newly arranged for this work. (1/2) Sony Music

Tracklisting:

1.O virtus sapientae
2.Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni~Talestri: Da me ti dividi
3.Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626~When I am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)
4.Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492~Deh vieni, non tardar
5.Three Romances, Op. 22~III. Leidenschaftlich schnell
6.Six Morceaux, VWV 3003~II. Bohemienne
7.Six Morceaux, VWV 3003~I. Romance
8.Six Morceaux, VWV 3003~VI. Tarantelle
9.Tre Momenti for Cello and String Orchestra~I. Speranze
10.Tre Momenti for Cello and String Orchestra~II. Solitudine
11.Tre Momenti for Cello and String Orchestra~III. Allegrezze
12.Suite for Cello and String Orchestra~II. Aria
13.Carmen Fantasie
14.Adoration
15.Las Tarantulas
16.Postludium
17.Chocolat~Suite
18.The Color Purple~Miss Celie's Blues, 'Sister'
19.No Time to Die