2015-2016 RECITALS alisa weilerstein In 2015-2016 the remarkable cellist Alisa Weilerstein will...
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In 2015-2016 the remarkable cellist Alisa Weilerstein will embark on a solo recital tour on the heels of her widely acclaimed Decca release, SOLO. The album features all unaccompanied performances of works by Zoltán Kodaly, Osvaldo Golijov, Gaspar Cassadó and Bright Sheng.At its heart is Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello, in which the Hungarian composer gives “full rein to his tormented and craggy vision, qualities fully conveyed in the tireless Ms.Weilerstein’s staggering performance” (New York Times). Her account of the Kodály is also captured in the movie If I Stay, and on the accompanying soundtrack album; based on the best-selling novel by Gayle Forman, the picture release marks Weilerstein’s feature film debut in a cameo appearance as herself. SAMPLE SOLO PROGRAM BACH Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007 KODALY Sonata in B Minor for Solo Cello GOLIJOV Omaramor BRITTEN Tema Sacher BACH Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009 ALISA WEILERSTEIN “IF MS. WEILERSTEIN IS PRECOCIOUS, IT IS IN COMMUNICATING, AS MANY OLDER MUSICIANS DO NOT, A DISTINCTIVE ARTISTIC PERSONALITY. SHE LETS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO SHE IS, AND IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE NOT WANTING TO DEVELOP THE ACQUAINTANCE IN THE YEARS AHEAD.” THE NEW YORK TIMES alisaweilerstein.com 2015-2016 RECITALS Alisa Weilerstein has been called the heir apparent of Yo-Yo Ma and garnered astoundingly passionate reviews. Critics note “her musicianship is absolutely stunning” (Classic FM), that her performances can be “so captivating that you have to remind yourself to breathe” (ClevelandClassical.com), and that she plays “with exquisite tone, agile fingering, graded filigree, and layer upon layer of nuance” (Huffington Post). “A phenomenal young cellist, Alisa Weilerstein, pretty much stole the evening with her extraordinary account of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1… Weilerstein was the complete musical actress whose orations from hushed and furtive and fearful to ferociously assertive were gripping in the extreme. We must cast our minds back to Rostropovich to remember an account of the slow movement as potent and technically accomplished as this...Weilerstein’s extraordinary subito piano effects and the way she could drain colour and sound to near-inaudibility (as in the passage in ghostly harmonics) and yet demand attention from the farthest reaches of the hall was astonishing. THE INDEPENDENT All programs subject to change. Please do not publish programs without written confirmation from Opus 3 Artists.
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In 2015-2016 the remarkable cellist Alisa Weilerstein will embark on a solo recital tour on the heels of her widely acclaimed Decca release, SOLO. The album features all unaccompanied performances of works by Zoltán Kodaly, Osvaldo Golijov, Gaspar Cassadó and Bright Sheng. At its heart is Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello, in which the Hungarian composer gives “full rein to his tormented and craggy vision, qualities fully conveyed in the tireless Ms. Weilerstein’s staggering performance” (New York Times). Her account of the Kodály is also captured in the movie If I Stay, and on the accompanying soundtrack album; based on the best-selling novel by Gayle Forman, the picture release marks Weilerstein’s feature film debut in a cameo appearance as herself.
sample solo programBACH Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007KODALY Sonata in B Minor for Solo CelloGOLIJOV OmaramorBRITTEN Tema SacherBACH Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009
alisa weilerstein“If MS. WEILERSTEIN IS pRECOCIOuS, IT IS IN COMMuNICATING, AS MANY OLDER MuSICIANS DO NOT, A DISTINCTIVE ARTISTIC pERSONALITY. SHE LETS YOu KNOW ExACTLY WHO SHE IS, AND IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE NOT
WANTING TO DEVELOp THE ACquAINTANCE IN THE YEARS AHEAD.” The New York Times
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2015-2016 RECITALS
Alisa Weilerstein has been called the heir apparent of Yo-Yo Ma and garnered astoundingly passionate reviews. Critics note “her musicianship is absolutely stunning” (Classic FM), that her performances can be “so captivating that you have to remind yourself to breathe” (ClevelandClassical.com), and that she plays “with exquisite tone, agile fingering, graded filigree, and layer upon layer of nuance” (Huffington Post).
“A phenomenal young cellist, Alisa Weilerstein, pretty much stole the evening with her extraordinary account of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1… Weilerstein was the complete musical actress whose orations from hushed and furtive and fearful to ferociously assertive were gripping in the extreme. We must cast our minds back to Rostropovich to remember an account of the slow movement as potent and technically accomplished as this...Weilerstein’s extraordinary subito piano effects and the way she could drain colour and sound to near-inaudibility (as in the passage in ghostly harmonics) and yet demand attention from the farthest reaches of the hall was astonishing. The IndependenT
All programs subject to change. Please do not publish programs without written confirmation from Opus 3 Artists.
