gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
vc-solo sitar-solo fl ob cl fg h tpt trb timp hp str
Storms and Pain : for 8 violoncellos / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Cello
Bezetting:
8vc
Consorts : 12 'cellos, 1972 / David Rowland
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Cello
Bezetting:
str(0.0.0.12.0.)
Here no bull can hide : for 12 violoncelli / Henk Alkema
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Cello
Bezetting:
12vlc
compositie
Flowing Borders : for Indian cello, sitar and 8 cellos / Saskia Rao-de Haas & Shubhendra Rao
Auteur(s):
Rao de Haas, Saskia
(Componist)
Toelichting:
Flowing Borders is a new work for eight cellos, sitar and Indian cello, composed by Saskia Rao-de Haas and Pandit Shubhendra Rao, based on the final movement of their orchestral work Song of Water. The music unfolds as a dialogue between the two soloists – Indian cello and sitar – and the eight voices of the Cello Octet Amsterdam, a river that branches and reunites. Rooted in the raga tradition yet shaped by Western compositional forms, the piece dissolves the boundaries between East and West, improvisation and notation, the ancient and the contemporary. In the spirit of Shifting Borders, it asks what happens when eight Western cellos enter into conversation with the Hindustani melodic world. This world premiere at the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam 2026 marks a new chapter in the ongoing dialogue between two of music’s great rivers.
Saskia Rao-de Haas