Folk & Ba-Rock Cello

Giovanni Sollima is an internationally renowned cellist and one of the most performed Italian composers in the world. His original Ba-Rock Cello project reinterpreted rock pieces in the intimate setting of a solo performance and associated them with little-known Italian composers from the 17th and 18th centuries. These unlikely contrasts and surprising connections are now further traced back to their musical roots in Folk & Ba-Rock Cello. In this work, Sollima picks up the timbres and rhythmic grooves of archaic songs from a wide variety of countries and connects the similarities of all music, whether globally iconic, nationally popular, or long lost in the dusty manuscripts of time.