Viet Cuong (1990-)
"Room to move", pour octuor de violoncelles

Fernando Otero (1972-)
Molto appassionato du Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre

James Lee III (1975-)
"Ekah", pour violoncelle et piano

Timo Andres (1985-)
"Agita", pour violoncelle t piano

Sophia Bass (1996-)
"Taal-Naad Naman", pour violoncelle, tabla et tanpura

Bruce Wolosoff (1955-)
"Lacrymae", pour choeur de violoncelles

Avner Domran (1975-)
"Elegy for the victims of indifference", pour violoncelle et accordéon

Vijay Iyer (1971-)
"The Window", pour violoncelle et piano

Christopher Cerrone (1984-)
"The Pleasure at being the cause", pour violoncelle et piano

Angélica Negron (1981-)
"Ruta Panoramica", pour violoncelle, bandonéon et électronique

John Luther Adams (1953-)
"A Weeping of Doves", pour 8 violoncelles

Adolphus Hailstork (1941-)
"Hora", pour violoncelle et marimba

Gloria Coates (1938-)
Berceuse pour violoncelle seul

Agata Zubel (1978-)
"Unisono III", pour voix, violoncelle et électronique

Christopher Tyler Nickel (1978-)
"Fractures of Solitude", pour octuor de violoncelles et instruments à vent

Molly Joyce (1992-)
"It has not taken", pour violoncelle et électronique

Camille Ed Bacha (1989-)
Trio pour piano "Dance between the Worlds"

Oscar Bettison (1975-)
"La Hija del Néon", pour violoncelle, piano et guitare électrique

Immanuel Wilkins (1998-)
"Exhale", pour violoncelle seul

Stewart Goodyear (1973-)
"The Kapok", pour violoncelle et piano

Inbal Segev (1973-)
"Behold", pour quatuor de violoncelles

Inbal Segev, violoncelle
Caleb van der Swwagh, violoncelle
Karen Ouzounian, violoncelle
Brook Speltz, violoncelle
Anna Polonsky, piano
Timo Andres, piano
Mari Tanaka, tanpura
Vivek Pandya, tabla
Julien Labro, accordéon, bandonéon
Vijay Iyer, piano
Charlotte Mundy, voix
Christopher Tyler Nickel, hautbois d'amour, cor anglais, hautbois baryton
Jennifer Frautschi, violon
Camille El Bacha, piano
Conrad Tao, piano
Oren Fader, guitare électrique
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Brooklyn Rider

Johnny Gandelsman, violon
Colin Jacobsen, violon
Nicholas Cord, alto
Michael Nicolas, violoncelle
Xavier Foley, contrebasse

The convergence of cataclysmic events of 2020 spurred cellist Inbal Segev to conceive an ambitious and inspirational commissioning project, 20 for 2020, for which she asked 20 composers to document in music their responses to the challenges posed by the pandemic and social unrest. The result is an utterly moving and immensely varied palette of strong and distinctive compositional voices spanning a range of ages, genders and cultures. Originally released over time as four digital EPs, all 20 compositions come together for the first time in a 2CD deluxe digipack and are capped by the premiere of Inbal’s own work, Behold for cello quartet. When Inbal conceived 20 for 2020, she could not have foreseen the scope of musical imagination from the 20 composers she asked to write works for her. Further pronouncing her passion for promoting new works for her instrument: “Art needs to move forward, otherwise it will die.” Collectively these compositions celebrate a stunning array of music for the soulful sound of the cello in the 21st century.