The cellist Lucy Railton, clear, clear and precious – Liberation

In the recent work of Lucy Railton, we find Three or one : 24 pieces of Bach taken from his instrumental repertoire and his cantatas, transcribed by pianist Fred Thomas. However, the English cellist is always a little surprised that we are talking about it to evoke the delusional diversity of its activities and as a detour in her recent career, essentially devoted to the avant-garde since she recorded it … in 2012. « Me too, I love this record, but I was 24 years old at the time, I have 39 today! Manfred Eicher d’Ecm is like that, he validates something and he takes it out ten years later. It is the oldest recording of my discography, therefore rather a starting point than a detour… ”

That we do not prevent ourselves from looking at this Bach in the firmament of the hundred records to which Lucy Railton contributed and Blue Veil, Its new solo fully composed, arranged and played by it according to the liberating precepts of the just intonation – based on the natural harmonics of sound rather than the notes of the Western range. Despite the appearances of a work in which the cello and electronic as well as performance and composition merge, everything is consistent with Lucy Railton.

Seated in a cafe facing the Louvre, she summarizes, passionately, the happiness she has to create only with her instrument, an Scottish cello from 1810, to blend into the infinitely small of sound. « It’s a bit like when you manipulate