Passionate
Beguiling
Enchanting soundscapes
An enraptured offering
Exploring the depth of emotions
With brilliant sonorities light and soft as scarves 1
A musical fresco of velvet twilight, gilded palazzos, and gondolas swaying on canals
When you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your emotions and feelings waken all at once and surround you 2
Dreamlike, romantic, as sparkling as Sargent's Venice watercolors, then elegiac, imbued with melancholy
The majestic and haunting timbre of the cello
A recitative of the soul
Beauty as solace
Anastasia's Venice
Poetic
Timeless
Notes:
This fib was inspired by listening to the CD Venice by cellist Anastasia Kobekina, (Sony Classical, 2024).
1. This phrase describing music is by Marcel Proust from The Prisoner, (Penguin Classics, 2002).
2. This is a slightly modified phrase from the cellist's namesake city Anastasia in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, (Harcout, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974).
