eSACHERe

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Swiss conductor and maecenas Paul Sacher, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich asked 12 composers (Beck, Berio, Boulez, Britten, Dutilleux, Fortner, Ginastera, Halffter, Henze, Holliger, Huber and Lutoslawski) to create dozen compositions for cello using theme from the name of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher (Es, A, C, H, E, Re). They were partially premiered in Zurich in May 1976. Decades later, Czech Cellist František Brikcius introduced this wonderful set of dozen compositions at the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague. New music documentary film eSACHERe explains the genesis of this unique music project.