Help
Skip to main content

US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Chamber Music by David Wilde

Red Note Ensemble

The Cellist of Sarajevo
Wilde’s music exudes technical assurance, craftsmanship and an in-depth understanding of instruments gained through his own experiences as a performer. The results are truly memorable…a musical...

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Chamber Music by David Wilde

Red Note Ensemble

Purchase product

CD

$20.50

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Download

From$10.00

Download

Audio formats guide

48 kHz, 24 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$35.00

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$13.00

320 kbps, MP3

$10.00

This release includes a digital booklet

Stream now Hi-RES 48 kHz, 24 bit
Wilde’s music exudes technical assurance, craftsmanship and an in-depth understanding of instruments gained through his own experiences as a performer. The results are truly memorable…a musical...

About

David Wilde - extraordinary pianist and musician, pupil of Franz Reizenstein and Nadia Boulanger - is the veteran of nine Delphian piano recordings, documenting his remarkable Indian summer as a performer. Now, the label turns to his compositional output: cellist Robert Irvine and his colleagues in Red Note Ensemble survey the works of Wildes Bosnian period when he travelled to besieged Sarajevo to help preserve the citys cultural life, earning him the friendship of colleagues including the heroic members of the Sarajevo String Quartet. Wilde has made his home in Scotland since his retirement from teaching in Hanover, and the respect in which he is held by the leading chamber musicians of his adopted country shines through here, in their performances of music which recalls his earlier life in Central Europe and bears witness to the legacy of a dark period in late twentieth-century history.

Contents and tracklist

I. Dance of Death. Ethnic Cleansing
Track length3:41
II. Death Knell
Track length2:28
III. Notturno desolato
Track length4:04
IV. Lament in Rondo Form. The Cellist of Sarajevo
Track length9:51
I. Senza misura - Allegro moderato, con molta energia - Allegretto grazioso
Track length14:11
This track is only available as an album download.
II. Intermezzo. Andante espressivo, ma con alcuna licenza
Track length4:34
III. Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso - Vivace ed un poco grottesco
Track length7:13
IV. Threnody (For the Unknown Civilian Victim of War & Oppression)
Track length10:01
This track is only available as an album download.
I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro tempestuoso - Senza misura
Track length8:21
II. Notturno. Lento
Track length4:18
III. Scherzo. Vivace - Trio fantastico. Quasi Arlecchino
Track length4:09
IV. Finale. Allegro vivace (Tempo di valse)
Track length9:28

Awards and reviews

January 2017

Wilde’s music exudes technical assurance, craftsmanship and an in-depth understanding of instruments gained through his own experiences as a performer. The results are truly memorable…a musical voice that communicates with the immediacy and authenticity of direct, lived experience.
View download progress