Klaus Arp's 'Suitencello' incorporates elements of Bach's music, including an inversion of the famous arpeggio from the first Bach Suite and an improvisation on the Prelude of the sixth Bach Suite.
Performer Biography
Julian Arp, the cellist on this album, plays a cello custom-built for him in 2010 by Stephan von Baehr, modeled after the Stradivari 'Stauffer Ex Christiani' from 1700.
Performer Biography
Caspar Frantz, the pianist, is a professor of chamber music at the University of Music and Theatre 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' Leipzig.
Composition History
Schubert's 'Arpeggione' Sonata was written for the arpeggione, a then-new and now almost extinct instrument invented only a year prior to the sonata's creation in 1823 by Johann Georg Staufer.
Album & Artwork
The album title and theme, 'Arpeggio', were inspired by Julian Arp's and his uncle Klaus Arp's shared amusement at finding the letters 'Arp' in longer words or license plates.
Composer Biography
Klaus Arp, in whose memory this album is dedicated, was a conductor, composer, pianist, and double bassist who led his own jazz combo and an ensemble for minimal music.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded over four days in October 2020 at the SWR Studio Kaiserslautern, a place where Julian Arp's uncle, Klaus Arp, used to work.
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