Andermatt Music: Cellos on the Rocks

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"Cellos on the Rocks" is the motto of the concert when eight cellists from the Swiss Orchestra kick off and whirl through the Andermatt Concert Hall with their sounds. About the program: The scroll, peg, nut, neck, fingerboard, sound hole, bridge, tailpiece, top, ribs, back and spine are all important components of a cello - not forgetting the four strings, tuned to C, G, d and a with a pitch between 65.48 and 221 Hertz, which are set in vibration with a bow strung with horsehair. Similar to the violin, the cello has an irregular partial tone structure and pronounced formant areas due to its complicated resonance characteristics. In musical acoustics, formant refers to an area in the sound spectrum in which sound energy is concentrated regardless of the pitch. These physical and technical properties are the basis of the cantabile - i.e. vocal - sound character often attributed to the cello, for which the instrument is loved: The cello is able to touch the soul with its warm and deep voice and win the hearts of listeners with its soft, flowing tone. Its sometimes sultry sound stands for grace and pride - it is no coincidence that Camille Saint-Saëns had the cello embody the swan in his "Carnival of the Animals" and thus created a monument to the instrument. The concert with the eight cellists of the Swiss Orchestra shows that the cello, known for its beauty, expressiveness and versatility, can do more than just glide gently across a pond. With his work "Violoncelles, vibrez!", Giovanni Sollima calls for this: Cellos, vibrate! And how beautifully and virtuosically and intensely they vibrate in this one-movement piece: at first very inwardly and quietly, heading towards a brilliant climax, only to gradually fall silent again in the end. Sollima is not the only one to incorporate jazz elements into his composition; the Argentinian tango grandmaster Astor Piazzolla also fuses influences from jazz, baroque music and tango in his "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires", conjuring up a fascinating cityscape of sound as the seasons change: Buenos Aires between tranquillity, excitement, shimmering heat, transience and melancholy. The program also includes Fabian Müller's "Swiss Suite", in which he takes up various folk songs, and an arrangement of the music from the James Bond film "Casino Royale". Program: Fabian Müller "Swiss Suite" for 5 cellos Giovanni Sollima "Violoncelles, vibrez!" for 8 cellos David Arnold "Casino Royale" (James Bond) for 8 cellos (arr. James Barralet) Astor Piazzolla "The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" (arr. James Barralet) Swiss Orchestra Soloists The Swiss Orchestra Cellists: Joachim Müller-Crépon Gunta Abele Sarah Weilenmann Samuel Justitz Matyas Major Daniela Roos-Hunziker Alina Müller Julia Caro Trigo Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.