Posts tagged Cello and cimbalom
SAINT ELIZABETH BELLS (2012)

"In nine minutes, [the cellist] streamed through the spectrum of human emotions. Her instrument’s sound trembled and roared under the otherworldly ring of the cimbalom, a hammered dulcimer that sounds like a piano echoing in a dream." - THE BOSTON GLOBE

“A tribute to the composer’s father inspired by the church bells he heard on his deathbed, the piece cites familiar hourly chimes only once, but to wrenching effect.” - CLEVELAND CLASSICAL

"Saint Elizabeth Bells conjured up a hallucinatory world of overtones, musical material derived from church bells....the peculiar richness of the cimbalom generated layers of harmonic haze within which the cello sang with lyric melancholy." - THE BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

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