Sanguine
(2022)

Woman in black dress sitting at a keyboard, with a cello leaning against the wall, in a vintage-style interior with framed artworks.

They say that the cello is the closest instrument to the human voice; therefore, the inspiration for these five solo cello pieces primarily came from language and words. A collection of longform melodies that explore the lyricism and expressivity the cello has to offer.

Movements:

In Secret Kept- Solo Cello

In Secret Kept

Photographer: Anne Brigman

“The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept; in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
~ Charlotte Brontë

Black and white photo of Audrey Hepburn playing the Cello, from her notable film 'Love in The Afternoon'.

Sanguine

Still from Love In The Afternoon, directed by Billy Wilder, 1957

Sanguine: optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

The Beauty That Still Remains- Solo Cello

The Beauty That Still Remains

Photographer: Unknown

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”
~ Anne Frank

Airling- Solo Cello

Airling

Photographer: Unknown

Airling: a thoughtless, light-hearted person.

Vintage photo of a woman looking into a mirror at a vanity, surrounded by grooming items, with a melancholic expression.

Soliloquy

Photographer: Peter Buchorne

Soliloquy: an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.

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