(2019) Boccherini, Franchomme Rossini & Servais: Virtuoso Music for cello and strings Jean Françaix Valentina Svyatlovskaya

Valentina Svyatlovskaya

expressing all that is outside of our grasp

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Leonard Slatkin

TEMPO GIUSTO has also developed a highly individual program dedicated to lighter music extending from the Renaissance to the Beatles

(2019) Boccherini, Franchomme Rossini & Servais: Virtuoso Music for cello and strings Jean Françaix Valentina SvyatlovskayaDerived from the viole da braccio family rather than that of the viols, the cello gained its independence in the Cremona cradle of Italian instrument making between the 16th and early 18th century. It adopted the shape of a large violin so large that it cannot rest on the shoulder like a violin or viola and is therefore held between the legs; an adjustable pin planted in the ground was added from the middle of the 19th century to make it more stable