Reijseger : Colla Parte / Ernst Reijseger

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Dutch cellist Reijseger (Clusone 3, Gerry Hemingway) is a virtuoso of complex timing and homemade techniques: plucking above and below the bridge, in two rhythms at once; bowing a melody and sketching its chords while quietly plucking a bass line; harmonizing bowed harmonics with high colorless whistling; strumming not-quite-guitary chords.... He does all that and more on these excellently recorded solos, if you can call such balancing acts solos. (Colla parte means "with loose accompaniment.") On this program of focused improvisations and tunes by Abdullah Ibrahim and Misha Mengelberg, Reijseger also plays cello like a cello, letting melodies sing, and making quiet allusions to the instrument's past. He may shift from a rich, sonorous tone to knife-edge nasality on one pass of the bow, but he never defeats his own musicality. Listen and know why Yo-Yo Ma is a booster (and occasional collaborator). Definitive Reijseger, and a perfect gift for any unsuspecting cellist. --Kevin Whitehead

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Average customer rating: Ah, the phenomenology of music reception!

Reijseger : Colla Parte / Ernst Reijseger Manufacturer: Winter & Winter ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Colla Voche / Reijseger, Tenore E Cuncordu De Orosei Janna I Love You So Much It Hurts Requiem for a Dying Planet Love Henry ASIN: B00000B7A1 Release Date: 1997-10-04

Tracks:

1. Colla Parte
2. Ricercare
3. Gwidza
4. Ritornello
5. Garbato con Sordina
6. Violoncello Bastardo
7. Toccata
8. Divertimento
9. Giocoso
10. Rosa
11. Passsaggio
12. Cello di Buddha
13. La Madre di Tutte le Guerre

Amazon.com

Dutch cellist Reijseger (Clusone 3, Gerry Hemingway) is a virtuoso of complex timing and homemade techniques: plucking above and below the bridge, in two rhythms at once; bowing a melody and sketching its chords while quietly plucking a bass line; harmonizing bowed harmonics with high colorless whistling; strumming not-quite-guitary chords.... He does all that and more on these excellently recorded solos, if you can call such balancing acts solos. (Colla parte means "with loose accompaniment.") On this program of focused improvisations and tunes by Abdullah Ibrahim and Misha Mengelberg, Reijseger also plays cello like a cello, letting melodies sing, and making quiet allusions to the instrument's past. He may shift from a rich, sonorous tone to knife-edge nasality on one pass of the bow, but he never defeats his own musicality. Listen and know why Yo-Yo Ma is a booster (and occasional collaborator). Definitive Reijseger, and a perfect gift for any unsuspecting cellist. --Kevin Whitehead

Customer Reviews:

Ah, the phenomenology of music reception!.......2004-01-25

Or, in less high-faluting talk, why do we like what we do? This is one of those CDs that I feel compelled to review yet I wonder how others will hear it.
Reisjeger hits me in all my chakras on this disc. The music satisfies on every level including that of personal history. I was raised listening to the solo violin and cello music of Bach, the string quartets of Mozart, Beethoven and Bartok and all manners of chamber music. Later I added both country and urban blues, solo guitar of all sorts, contemporary classical and free jazz to the mix on my own. Sometimes while listening to this CD, I feel that Reisjeger designed the program with me in mind because he mixes in all the musics I love.
First, a little aside about the listing above. This is all solo work, in spite of the way Amazon lists the performers. The Arcado String trio, Guus Janssen, the Clusone Trio, etc.. are just some of the various people and groups with whom Reisjeger has played during the last thirty or so years.

Before I talk about the extended technique a little, I want to first emphasize that Reisjeger is a master of traditional tone and technique. If you like classical cello, you will like this disc if you have open ears. There are plenty of moments where the richness of his tone take on the sort of majesty and gravitas that the classical tradition is so rightly fond of.
But there is also insane and innovative technique. He can bow simultaneous melodies, he can vary his tone so that it almost seems as if the sound has shifted to another part of the room, he strums with both stand-up bass facility and as if that darn cello were a guitar. (I would really love to see him play. I would be willing to bet that at some points, he raises that left knee slightly, places the cello on its side on his knee and fingerpicks his chords.
All this for an extraordinary range of great music. The title tune sounds like something Bach would write today. Violincello Bastardo sounds like a folk guitar piece. Mengleberg's La Madre di Tutte le Guerre is beautifully bowed while Reisjeger whistles the melody. Rivercare sounds a little Beethovenish and a little like the opening phrase from the theme to "Mission Impossible".
These pieces come across like Reisjeger's meditations on a lifetime of listening to music, of solving technical problems in order to play what he wants to play, and of learning to express himself immediately, forcefully and honestly in the moment of playing. This is some of my favorite music of the last ten years.
You probably will not feel as passionate about it as I do but I cannot strongly enough recommend that you give this CD a try. Listen to the samples now and then a few weeks from now. See if they don't creep into your sonic memory. Buy the record and listen to it a few times and see if the music doesn't stay with you throughout your day. This is the good stuff.

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