Petar Pejčić - ECHO Rising Star

In Prayer to Ecstasy, young Serbian cellist Petar Pejčić embarks on a musical exploration of spiritual experience: from quiet introspection to physical intensity and ecstatic transcendence. The meditative lines of Bach and Ernest Bloch flow into Ligeti’s gripping sonata and the visceral eruptions of Giovanni Sollima, with a new work by Đuro Živković at the centre of the programme.

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite for Cello no. 2, BWV 1008: I. Prelude

Baroque · Chamber

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite für Cello Nr. 6, BWV 1012: VI. Gigue

Baroque · Chamber

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Giuseppe Dall’Abaco

Capriccio No. 1 in C Minor

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A

Ana Sokolović

Vez (for solo cello)

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Ernest Bloch

From Jewish Life

XXe siècle

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G

Giovanni Sollima

Alone

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Đ

Đuro Živković

The Icon (commissioned by ECHO, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Konzerthaus Dortmund and Palau de la Música Catalana)

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György Ligeti

Cello Sonata

Après-guerre · Chamber

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