A dedicated chamber artist, this winter Alisa partners with the Ariel Quartet for programs juxtaposing Schubert’s String Quintet in C with original folk-themed works and transcriptions, in concerts presented by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Dec 12) and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (Dec 15).
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Dec 12 &
On November 15, Pentatone’s physical and digital release of Alisa’s new recording with her regular collaborator, Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan, with whom she shares “a dazzling technique and a level of communication and expression so clear that they can practically finish each other’s phrases” (Boston Classical Review).
An all-Brahms collection, the new album captures their accounts of the German composer’s two sonatas for cello, as well as their own arrangement for cello of his First Violin Sonata.
As one of today’s leading exponents of the orchestral cello repertoire, this fall Alisa Weilerstein debuts with two of the world’s foremost ensembles.
She plays Barber’s Cello Concerto under Franz Welser-Möst for her first appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on October 24 and 25, and revisits Matthias Pintscher’s un despertar (2017), one of the first concertos written for her, for her debut with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, under the composer-conductor’s leadership November 7 and 9.