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

Valentina Svyatlovskaya

a music-loving diplomat and amateur flutist

Leonard Slatkin

On the recording this has the benefit of foregrounding the text and thereby to an extent solving many of the balance issues that occur in a conventional set-up

expressing all that is outside of our grasp

(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