Ophélie Gaillard: Alvorada
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Composer or Director: Traditional, Gaspar Cassadó, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, Juan Carlos Cobián, José Dames, Moisés Simons, Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Manuel de Falla, Egberto Gismonti, Toquinho, Julian Plaza, Alfredo Gobbi, Isolina Carillo, Félix Lipesker, Tom Jobim, Carlos Cahaça
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Aparte
Magazine Review Date: AW2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 111
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: AP104
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(7) Canciones populares españolas, Movement: Jota |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Manuel de Falla, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
(7) Canciones populares españolas, Movement: Nana |
Manuel de Falla, Composer
Manuel de Falla, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Goyescas |
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Nieblas del Riachuelo |
Juan Carlos Cobián, Composer
Juan Carlos Cobián, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Alvorada |
Carlos Cahaça, Composer
Carlos Cahaça, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
El Manisero |
Moisés Simons, Composer
Moisés Simons, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Dos Gardenias |
Isolina Carillo, Composer
Isolina Carillo, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Nada |
José Dames, Composer
José Dames, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Agua e Vinho |
Egberto Gismonti, Composer
Egberto Gismonti, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Escualo |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Astor Piazzolla, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Oblivion |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Astor Piazzolla, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
(Le) Grand Tango |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Astor Piazzolla, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Nostalgias |
Juan Carlos Cobián, Composer
Juan Carlos Cobián, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Payadora |
Julian Plaza, Composer
Julian Plaza, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Romántica |
Félix Lipesker, Composer
Félix Lipesker, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
A Orlando Goñi |
Alfredo Gobbi, Composer
Alfredo Gobbi, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Tarde em Itapuã |
Toquinho, Composer
Ophélie Gaillard, Cello Toquinho, Composer |
Wave |
Tom Jobim, Composer
Ophélie Gaillard, Cello Tom Jobim, Composer |
O Canto do Cisne Negro |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
(El) Cant del Ocells, '(The) Song of the Birds' |
Traditional, Composer
Ophélie Gaillard, Cello Traditional, Composer |
Suite for Cello |
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer
Gaspar Cassadó, Composer Ophélie Gaillard, Cello |
Author: David Patrick Stearns
This disc is a breakthrough for Gaillard not just as a cellist but as a curator of programmes. The two discs are sensitively sequenced to form an arc, starting with the familiar ground of Falla and then moving increasingly towards the more raw, unmediated music of tango, samba and even bossa nova with players you’ve probably never heard of (some seem only to have one name), with economical arrangements by Gabriel Sivak and with Gaillard finding some intriguing hybrid sounds by melding her upper range with that of bandoneón player Juanjo Mosalini.
Other cellists have failed to bridge the gap between the instrument’s innate suaveness and the unfiltered emotion of this repertoire. Time and again, Gaillard finds intense expression in the upper range of her instrument plus unfathomable melancholy in the bottom, allowing her to fearlessly enter the soul of Astor Piazzolla’s greatet hit, Oblivion. But she also knows when to stay out of the way. The feel-good Tarde em Itapuã with singer Toquinho has sunny surfaces to which Gaillard contributes brief obbligatos.
By the end of the second disc, Gaillard circles back to more familiar classical terrains with Villa-Lobos’s Bachiana Brasileira No 5 (which has hints of voodoo in her version). The crowning moment is Gaspar Cassadó’s Suite pour violoncello seul, which synthesises so much of what has come before, reimagining the use of dance in the Bach Suites with his own Latin equivalent, and played with Gaillard not just triumphing over the considerable technical challenges (such as extreme shifts of register) but making the whole thing sing. The disc could benefit from more funkiness not quite allowed by the ultra-clear, almost antiseptic engineering. But as it goes so much further than most of Gaillard’s classical colleagues, how can you really complain?
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