After the excellent and user-friendly program Spanish Tapeo, Cameron Crozman is embarking on a much more advanced endeavor. We understand the difficulty for cellists to soliloquize in music: you have to find the right moment to immortalize Bach’s suites and, after that, what remains, roughly speaking, is Britten and Kodály. Crozman therefore resurrects the seven ricercari composed by Domenico Gabrielli in 1689, which sound like well-ordered exercises rather than masterpieces. Based on the fact that ricercar means “to research”, Crozman associates with these pioneering works seven contemporary compositions signed Alexina Louie, Nina C. Young, Jordan Pal (excellent!), Daniel Alvarado Bonilla, Benoît Sitzia, Kelly-Marie Murphy and himself. The idea follows that of contemporary mirrors that Jean-Guihen Queyras once had for Bach’s suites. Crozman devotes himself to all this sound research with his excellence and competence. The challenge will be to find the public bold enough to adhere to the austere exercise.
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