This release is launched on a "name your price" basis, so that if you can afford to pay something to help artists and technicians then you can, but if you can't afford that you can still have your much-needed music even for 0€. With the download you also get lifetime full album streaming via Bandcamp app.
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'Isa' is either imperative or 3rd person indicative from the Sicilian verb ‘isàri’, which means to raise, to lift from the ground. This album, ‘ISA‘, is a response to the desire for freedom, for elevation. The music in this album expresses the transformational strain to rise upwards, which however (and therefore) can not avoid the contrast with resistance, rigour and gravity.

“ISA” is the third album in Sicilian cellist Alessio Pianelli‘s exploration of the six solo cello Suites by J.S. Bach, which doubles as a voyage both of discovery and self-discovery, including lesser-known 20th-century works as well as Alessio’s own works, reflecting on the emotional and intellectual challenges which Bach’s writing poses to musicians and listeners alike.
In each album of this project one of these milestones is paired with music from the last century and that of today. The albums are designed and produced in different years.

It is a research, therefore, made and experienced all together, one that banishes the fear (i.e.: the responsibility, but also the arrogance) of producing an allegedly definitive version of the Suites, and instead definitely embraces that the music of Johann Sebastian, and especially his Suites for cello, is open to endless interpretations, not only as the outcome of appropriate and informed philological choices, but also due to one’s background, culture and feelings, and also to the way the different pieces of music shed light on each other.

After “Prélude” (almendramusic.bandcamp.com/album/prelude) and “Sulla Quarta“ (almendramusic.bandcamp.com/album/sulla-quarta), here is now “ISA” for you, in which Alessio shares the 3rd “Suite” by J. S. Bach, the rare and virtuosic “Sonata op. 28” by Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe, the “Suite op. 76” by Alexander Tcherepnin, together with a new vision composed by Alessio himself, aptly bearing the title “Da BACo a FaRFalLa” (Italian for “From chrysalis to butterfly”)

Enjoy your music!
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Alessio Pianelli: violoncello

Music by: Alessio Pianelli ('Da BACo a FaRFalLa', track 1), Eugène Ysaÿe ('Sonata for cello solo, Op. 28', tracks 2-5), Alexander Tcherepnin ('Suite for cello solo, Op. 76', tracks 6-9), Johann Sebastian Bach ('Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009', tracks 10-15)