Thanks to an innate communicative and experimental instinct, Giovanni Sollima makes his cello converse with the OCM, deepening an aesthetic research that seems increasingly more and more ideal to him: a possible connection between the ancient voices of the popular song (in its own compositions) and the greatest grandeur of the highest European tradition; here from C. P. E. Bach, to Haydn, to the late Concerto of Schumann, here reworked for cello and strings by Sollima himself, who has long reflected on many of the last letters and sketches of the German master, aiming to find the sound of his ‘last words’.

(In collaboration with Lorenzo Baldrighi)