Umberto Giordona (1867-1948)
Intermezzo da Fedora

Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)
Elegia

Alfredo d'Ascoli (?)
La scherzosa

Niccolo van Westerout (1857-1898)
Romanza

Giuseppe Piantoni (1890-1950)
Giga

Pietro Migali (1635-1715)
Sonate en la mineur

Michele Cellaro (1952-)
Due temi da Fantastikcello

Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Suite

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Violloncelltango

Giovanni Solima (1962-)
Pizzica di Copertino
Pizzica indiavolato

ApuliaCelloSoloists

Giuseppe Carabellese, violoncelle
Fabio De Leonardis, violoncelle
Tiziana Di Giuseppe, violoncelle
Gabriele Marzella, violoncelle
Gabriele Musio, violoncelle
Francesco Tanzi, violoncelle
Gaetano Simone, violoncelle
Luciano Tarantino, violoncelle

Winner of the Puglia Sounds Record 2018 competition, the disc was strongly desired by M° Giovanni Sollima, who collected among the performers the Apulian excellences. The eight cellists, protagonists of this recording project, invite us to a diachronic musical journey, where the voice of the cello, expressing itself in all its registers, makes compositions and composers different in terms of age, style, and language speak. Moving from the baroque sonatistical phrasing of Pietro Migali, through three different lyrical souls represented very well by Mercadante, Giordano and van Westerhout, we reach the contemporaries Cellaro, Rota, Piazzolla and Sollima; it seems to be witnessing an elevation ad astra, where the voice of the cello emerges from the hiding of its ancient and constant work of support and solid base, slowly emerges from its gravity and makes us taste the "humanity" of its most lyrical and unexplored accents. The program chosen by the ensemble offers the listener a masterly essay on the versatility of the cello, which is able to navigate, over a period of almost four centuries, between the instrumental and vocal repertoire, passing through the classical and popular dances. The arrangements give the compositions (originally written for different musical groups) particular and unusual colors, due essentially to the nature of the instrument, to which it’s given the possibility to express itself simultaneously in different ways and registers, offering a complete spectrum of its expressive abilities; listening to the CD, one senses that the cello gradually tries to abstract itself from the repertoire and practices so that it can freely describe and narrate itself.