Bach, Berio, Dutilleux & Ligeti: Cello Works

Featuring

Frédéric Rosselet
Luciano Berio
Johann Sebastian Bach
György Ligeti
Henri Dutilleux

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Instruments

For the Bach suites, Frédéric Rosselet plays a Baroque cello made by Carlos Moreno in 2004, copied from a 1725 Grancino, configured with gut strings and a Baroque bow.

Performer Biography

Frédéric Rosselet, the Swiss cellist on this album, is a protégé of Ralph Kirshbaum, who holds the Gregor Piatigorsky Chair at The Thornton School of Music.

Performer Biography

Frédéric Rosselet won the prestigious Thornton Concerto Competition and took first place in the Bach Solo Strings Competition.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in Alfred Newman Hall at the University of Southern California, using an AKG C-24 microphone and high-resolution digital and analog recording systems.

Instruments

Frédéric Rosselet's modern cello, used for pieces by Berio, Ligeti, and Dutilleux, was made about 130 years ago by a student of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and belonged to his grandfather.

Compositional Technique

The 'eSACHERe' project utilized the Renaissance technique of soggetto cavato, where composers use pitches assigned to letters in a name (like Sacher) to form a melody.

Composition History

The 'eSACHERe' project, featuring works by twelve composers including Berio and Dutilleux, was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich for Paul Sacher's 70th birthday in 1976.