Editions Musicales Transatlantiques Lauba - Blue Rai Book for Cello

Blue Raï is modeled on Johann Sebastian Bach’s  Suite for solo cello.

The work consist of five linked movements. Each part highlights a particular mode of play on the instrument, in which classical or novel parameters (attack, phrasing, rubao or non rubato, dynamics, rhythms, tone colours etc.) come together.

The piece is a double homage: to highly notated Western music and to the traditional music of Nothern Africa (Algeria), the inflections of which are naturally amplified by the cello.

Christian Lauba

Contents: Lude, All, Kur, Sar, Jig

Score Pages: 30

Publisher: Éditions Musicales