In “Venice,” Anastasia Kopikina brings together music from different eras to create a moving hymn to one of the most magical places in our world.
The moving music was written out of necessity, Anastasia Kopikina says of her new album “Venice.” Because what words cannot express in such exceptional circumstances, the language of music can. This need, but also this urgency to connect, can be felt in every pulse of their musical journey through Venice, where eras and styles – with the emphasis on Vivaldi – follow not a chronology, but a logic of the heart. Monteverdi's “Lamento d'Arianna” and its arrangement by composer Wald Kopikina form the framework for the work. It is often said that the cello is similar to the human voice and that it can sing and speak. In this sense, it predetermines the musical genre of lament, which is brilliantly composed lament. You can hear it on this great album.
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Venice
Works of Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Strozzi, Silvestrov, Britten, Kopeikin and others
Anastasia Kubikina (cello), Azul Lima (lute), Leonardo Bortolotto and Martin Zeller (viola da gamba), Fran Petrac and Maximilian Siop (double bass), Basel Chamber Orchestra
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