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The BaRock Experience - Masterpieces for cello and organ
Antonio Vivaldi, Jean Barrière

Jelena & Ljerka Očić

The BaRock Experience - Masterpieces for cello and organ

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917260724
Catnr: CC 72607
Release date: 27 September 2013
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Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917260724
Catalogue number
CC 72607
Release date
27 September 2013

"These beautifully recorded performances on cello and organ are certainly free in spirit, but they offer theatre and imagination, really bringing the spirit of the genre to life."

The Strad, 01-4-2014
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About the album

“The recording of this CD I can describe as one of my most beautiful and most exciting musical experiences. I always enjoy playing with my sister Jelena, but this time our bonding rose to an even higher level of empathy, and it became a search for new and adventurous artistic expression.“

Inspiration, imagination and improvisational ideas led both musicians to new musical lines that Vivaldi and Barrière might have use. The continuo got more autonomy in the musical interaction.

The French cellist and composer Jean-Baptiste Barrière started his career as a privileges by King Louis XV at Fontainebleau. To his Majesty he wrote several sonatas which are still known for their sensitivity and fine tonality, their emotional resonance and deep sonority.

Three books of chamber music by Antonio Vivaldi present exquisite sonatas with fine melodies and expressive harmonies. Jelena and Ljerka Ocic present three of those which both loved most.
Twee zussen in een unieke bezetting
Het is geen unicum dat familieleden samen muziek maken, maar deze bijzondere combinatie van twee zussen die cello en orgel spelen zien we niet vaak. Voor dit debuutalbum hebben ze gekozen voor de relatief onbekende Franse componist Jean-Baptiste Barrière in combinatie met drie sonates van Antonio Vivaldi.
Barrière was een cellist en componist die zijn carrière begon in dienst van koning Lodewijk XV in Fontainebleau. Voor Zijne majesteit schreef hij een aantal sonates die nog steeds bekend staan om hun gevoeligheid, fraaie tonaliteit en heldere klanken. In tegenstelling tot Barrière schreef Vivaldi zijn cellosonates niet om zelf te spelen, maar voor zijn studenten. In drie boeken van kamermuziek heeft Vivaldi zijn sonates voor het publiek gepresenteerd en Jelena en Ljerka Očić hebben hun drie favoriete uitgekozen. Ondanks dat uit deze werken de virtuositeit van Vivaldi klinkt, behoren deze sonates tot zijn minder bekende werken die zelden worden uitgevoerd. In deze unieke, onorthodoxe bezetting van cello en orgel brengen ze het werk tot leven als nooit tevoren.

Jelena Očić is een geroemd celliste die vaak nieuwe manieren zoekt om bekend materiaal in een nieuw daglicht te zetten. Ze speelt vaak samen met Vladimir Mendelssohn, Julius Berger, Marco Rizzi en de pianisten Jose Gallardo and Federico Lovato. Daarnaast is zij honorair hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Mannheim en is ze regelmatig jurylid in internationale muziekcompetities. Op dit album speelt ze samen met haar zus Ljerka Očić, één van de meest vooraanstaande musici in Kroatië. Ljerka is professor aan de universiteit van Zagreb en heeft meer dan 20 albums opgenomen.
Barocksonaten für Cello und Orgel - einmalige Besetzung mitreissender Werke in phantasievollen Interpretationen.

Mit ihren phantasievollen Interpretationen versuchen Jelena und Ljerka Ocic weit über die rein notierte und vom Komponisten intendierte Musik hinauszugehen. Sie lassen sich selber mitreissen und gewinnen den Werken von Vivaldi und Barrière neue Dimensionen ab. Das Cello mit seinen Kantilenen dominiert, jedoch wird die Orgel durch das Improvisationstalent von Ljerka Ocic zu einem orchestral begleitenden Klangkörper.

Artist(s)

Jelena Ocic

The striking cellistic art of Jelena Ocic has met with standing ovations on three continents. Energetic, poetic, virtuoso, her playing is a rich kaleidoscope of colours and emotions. Bernard Greenhouse, founding cellist of the great “Beaux Arts” Trio, lauded her as “one of the most remarkable cello talents today”. The late Siegfried Palm, a major figure in 20th century music, called her “one of the most promising interpreters of New Music”.   Her chamber music partners have been Bernard Greenhouse, Konstanty Bogino, Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Federico Lovato, Friedemann Eichhorn, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Yuri Gandelsman, José Gallardo, etc…. She concertizes internationally as a soloist with chamber and philharmonic orchestras and as recitalist in Eastern and Western Europe, in the United States and Asia....
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The striking cellistic art of Jelena Ocic has met with standing ovations on three continents. Energetic, poetic, virtuoso, her playing is a rich kaleidoscope of colours and emotions. Bernard Greenhouse, founding cellist of the great “Beaux Arts” Trio, lauded her as “one of the most remarkable cello talents today”. The late Siegfried Palm, a major figure in 20th century music, called her “one of the most promising interpreters of New Music”. Her chamber music partners have been Bernard Greenhouse, Konstanty Bogino, Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Federico Lovato, Friedemann Eichhorn, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Yuri Gandelsman, José Gallardo, etc…. She concertizes internationally as a soloist with chamber and philharmonic orchestras and as recitalist in Eastern and Western Europe, in the United States and Asia. Numerous composers (Cornell, Dott, Sorg, Prohaska, etc.) have dedicated works to her. At the Musikhochschule in Mannheim, where she is a member of the faculty since 2004, she is spearheading projects in performance for cellists, and in the composition and interpretation of new music for cello for composers.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some...
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died less than a year later in poverty.

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Press

These beautifully recorded performances on cello and organ are certainly free in spirit, but they offer theatre and imagination, really bringing the spirit of the genre to life.
The Strad, 01-4-2014

Ljerka plays the big organ subtily and fantasticly colors the cello of Jelena
Luister, 03-2-2014

(...) one can not help but admire the improvisatory orchestral textures the Ljerka manages to achieve on the organ.
Early Music Review, 01-2-2014

An intensive interpretation like this that the croation sisters are offering here might not be something for everyone, but they handle to create 80 minutes of bristling emotional tension.
Fono Forum, 01-1-2014

Disc of the day
Words&Music, 16-12-2013

The close bond between these two musicians, that you can feel in every note, make this release totally worth listening
Crescendo, 01-7-2013

These beautifully recorded performances on cello and organ are certainly free in spirit, but they offer theatre and imagination, really bringing the spirit of the genre to life.
The Strad

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01.
Cello Sonate No.3 in E Minor [1733] [Jean Barriere] : I. Adagio
01:49
Jelena Ocic, Ljerka Ocic
02.
Cello Sonate No.3 in E Minor [1733] [Jean Barriere] : II. Allegro
01:51
(Jean Barrière) Jelena Ocic, Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
03.
Cello Sonate No.3 in E Minor [1733] [Jean Barriere] : III. Adagio
03:03
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
04.
Cello Sonate No.3 in E Minor [1733] [Jean Barriere] : IV. Aria grazioso
03:17
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
05.
Cello Sonate No.3 in E Minor [1733] [Jean Barriere] : V. Altro
02:35
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
06.
Cello Sonata No.5 in E Minor, RV.40 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : I. Largo
04:47
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
07.
Cello Sonata No.5 in E Minor, RV.40 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : II. Allegro
02:48
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
08.
Cello Sonata No.5 in E Minor, RV.40 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : III. Largo
03:00
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
09.
Cello Sonata No.5 in E Minor, RV.40 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : IV. Allegro
02:04
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
10.
Cello Sonate No.2 in G Minor [1733] Jean Barriere : I. Andante
02:55
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
11.
Cello Sonate No.2 in G Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: II. Allemanda Allergo
02:20
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
12.
Cello Sonate No.2 in G Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: III. Adagio
02:50
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
13.
Cello Sonate No.2 in G Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: IV. Aria Grazioso
03:14
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
14.
Cello Sonate No.2 in G Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: V. Eltro
02:30
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
15.
Cello Sonata No.3 in A Minor, RV.43 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : I. Largo
03:42
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
16.
Cello Sonata No.3 in A Minor, RV.43 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : II. Allegro
02:53
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
17.
Cello Sonata No.3 in A Minor, RV.43 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : III. Largo
05:20
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
18.
Cello Sonata No.3 in A Minor, RV.43 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi : IV. Allegro
02:45
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
19.
Cello Sonate No.1 in B Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: I. Adagio
02:18
(Jean Barrière) Jelena Ocic, Ljerka Ocic
20.
Cello Sonate No.1 in B Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: II. Alegro
03:50
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
21.
Cello Sonate No.1 in B Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: III. Adagio
01:43
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
22.
Cello Sonate No.1 in B Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: V. Andante {Da capo-Adagio al fine]
02:17
(Jean Barrière) Jelena Ocic, Ljerka Ocic
23.
Cello Sonate No.1 in B Minor [1733] Jean Barriere: V. Alegro
03:34
(Jean Barrière) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
24.
Cello Sonata No.6 in B-flat Major, V.46 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi: I. Largo
02:51
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
25.
Cello Sonata No.6 in B-flat Major, V.46 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi: II. Allegro
03:05
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
26.
Cello Sonata No.6 in B-flat Major, V.46 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi: III. Largo
02:49
(Antonio Vivaldi) Ljerka Ocic, Jelena Ocic
27.
Cello Sonata No.6 in B-flat Major, V.46 [1740] Antonio Vivaldi: IV. Allegro
02:47
(Antonio Vivaldi) Jelena Ocic, Ljerka Ocic
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