CELLO 360

Cello 360 is a truly remarkable, timeless journey traversing a whole range of solo cello repertoires. From baroque to electronic music, in this cleverly devised sequence across all the genres the French cellist reveals the infinite possibilities of the instrument.

For his first solo project, Christian- Pierre La Marca has made an artistic statement of unusually wide range and high impact: Cello 360 opens up the multifaceted, infinite horizons of the cello, demanding ever more from the instrument while always letting it sing, on this truly remarkable journey.

The French cellist clearly relishes crossing between genres (baroque, classical, film music, pop and electronic) and historical periods (the 17th, 18th, 20th and 21st centuries), in a varied array of modes of performance – including multi-tracking to build up a many-voiced polyphonic texture, a single cello rotating through a full 360 degrees of temporal and technical diversity.

Christian-Pierre La Marca here presents baroque pieces (for viola da gamba) as well as modern and futuristic music in a highly personal, patterned reflection that is radically innovatory for the instrument and its repertoire, stimulating for the performer and fascinating for the listener.

In this cleverly devised sequence, pieces by Marais, Purcell, Telemann, Sainte-Colombe, Dowland and Rameau interact with Grieg, Chaplin, Dutilleux, Escaich, Ligeti, Casals, the Beatles and Sollima. 

As La Marca confides: I really like the cross-cultural, multi-genre aspect of this CD: I love going from one musical style to another, creating links that did not previously exist, so as to reveal the infinite possibilities of the instrument.