Amorphis - The Beginning Of TimesAmorphis The Beginning Of Times

The annual summer opera festival in Macerata celebrated it's centennial season in 2021 with two special Verdi operas

and has been active in international master classes (in Germany

' His Cello Sonata (1915) was the first of a series of six sonatas for various instruments that he planned to compose

This genuine masterpiece represents a mirror image of the world around Shostakovich: in it he depicted in music the reality of life in Leningrad in 1937 from his own perspective

as well as Canada

sung by Rodrigo Costa Felix

Forty-seven of these are for solo bass voice with a variety of instrumental pairings

an eclectic mix of evocative chamber music

The programme begins with one of the earliest quartets for these forces

but no one knows their names

they bring a studio recording and a focused and riveting performance of Beethoven's complete sonatas for piano and cello

and timbres in the music and in ensemble playing