Sonia Wieder-Atherton

The images from D’Est, documentary maker Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece, remained with Sonia Wieder-Atherton for a long time. Watching an excerpt of the film, without sound, in the company of a Rachmaninov sonata, the cellist found herself imagining the music transforming the cars rolling over the snow into ballerinas full of lightness. It was this emotional mediation of the relationship between music and cinema that Wieder-Atherton set out to work on and share with pianist Sarah Rothenberg, developing the captivating project D’Est en Musique.

D’Est en Musique
With the screening of images from Chantal Akerman’s film D’Est (1993)

Maurice Ravel
Kaddisch, for cello and piano
Sergei Rachmaninov
Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, op. 19 (Largo – Allegro moderato)
Boris Tchaikovsky
Suite for solo Cello in D minor (Aria)
Fryderyk Chopin
Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 65 (Scherzo: Allegro con brio)
Bohuslav Martinů
Cello Sonata n.º 2, H. 286 (Largo)
Leoš Janáček
Moravian folk poetry in songs, for cello solo (transcribed by F. Krawczyk and S. Wieder-Atherton)
Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances, for cello and piano (IV Bucsumí tánc / III Pe loc)
Alfred Schnittke
Sonata for Cello and Piano n.º 1 (Largo-Presto-Largo)
Sergei Prokofiev
Adagio op. 97bis, for cello and piano (from Cinderella)

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