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Matt Haimovitz: Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945 – 2014)

Read "Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945 – 2014)" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The solo cello repertoire is dominated completely by Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV 1007-1012. While there exists much more solo cello music than this, the majority of commercial media releases are of Bach's mountain. So, what a about a sampler of solo cello music other than Bach? Matt Haimovitz provides us exactly that with Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-- 2014). Rather than one more prim exposition of the Suites or an avant-garde exploration of the ...


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