This album was recorded in November 2015 at 'unterm Dach' in Mannheim, Germany, which is Friedemann Döling's own chamber music series venue.
Composition History
Giselher Klebe's 'Nenia' for solo cello was inspired by a bombing in Bologna in 1974, and its title means 'funeral dirge' in Italian.
Compositional Technique
In Giselher Klebe's 'Nenia', the notes B, G, and A are derived from the name 'Bologna' and form the basis of its twelve-tone structure.
Composer Biography
Samuel Adler, a composer featured on this album, was born in Mannheim, Germany, and his father was the church choir director of Mannheim's main synagogue.
Performer Biography
Friedemann Döling, the cellist on this album, has been the solo cellist at the Nationaltheater Mannheim since 1990.
Composition History
Samuel Adler's Sonata for Cello Solo is dedicated to the American cellist Lynn Harrell, who was Adler's theory student as a teenager.
Composition History
Ernst Toch's Impromptu Op. 90c was written in 1963 to celebrate the 60th birthday of the renowned cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
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