Judith Hamann - Music for Cello and HummingFor her first album releases as a soloist, nomadic Australian cellist and composer Judith Hamann presents two collections of her sonic inquiries into shaking and humming. Her CD, Music for Cello and Humming, features two pieces for cello and humming written specifically for Hamann by composers Sarah Hennies and Anthony Pateras alongside Hamann's own "Humming Suite" and "Study for cello and humming." Having arisen intuitively from Hamann's

Blue Ranger

recorded live on Dec 24

"Gidon Kremer - Finding Your Own Voice" is a calm

" "Don't Want Much

Ward's Transfiguration of Vincent

Martinu's highly dramatic first cello sonata and the dreamlike "Waldesruh" by Anton Dvorák complete the program

a favorite of Gustav Leonhardt to whose memory this volume 1 is dedicated

Classical and Romantic works

" (Mikhail Pletnev)

Though major labels came calling

He took his music to isolated townships and he'd stand outside the dance hall in bone-chilling cold or stifling heat until every autograph had been signed

"We both had a record player at home"