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Alisa Weilerstein: fragments of the future

2025-09-12T08:46:00

AW_F4_by Cole Carrico (1)

The US cellist Alisa Weilerstein talks to Peter Quantrill about reinventing the solo recital for a multimedia age, and working with living composers to renew the concerto repertoire

A cellist sits alone on stage. She is accompanied not by the usual platform paraphernalia – a grand piano, perhaps, a music stand or a flower arrangement – but a collection of twelve boxes in artful (dis)array. Coloured light casts her into shadow. The bow strikes the string, and out comes music you’ve never heard before…

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