Described in The Times as 'One of the most exciting cellists to have
emerged for a decade', former BBC New Generation Artist Andrei Ionita
draws together some of the greatest music ever written for solo cello.
Ionita gives the world-premiere recording of Australian composer Brett
Dean s 11 Oblique Strategies, from which the album takes its name. Dean s
work was inspired by the Oblique Strategy cards invented by Brian Eno
and Peter Schmidt to spark creativity. In J.S. Bach s exquisite Cello
Suite No.1 a sense of harmony is created using a single melodic line,
with mesmerising results. Kodály's pioneering Sonata (1915) is another
giant of the solo cello repertoire, and the album concludes with Black
Run (2001) by contemporary Swedish polymath Svante Henryson.
