Category: Folk Music
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Sky Be Dark (天黑黑) for solo cello
This is an unaccompanied cello fantasy on 天黑黑, as sung by 孫燕姿 (Stefanie Sun). Written by 李偲菘 and 吳慶隆, the song single-handedly launched Stefanie’s career in 2000. Although its official English title is Cloudy Day, the recomposer believes that Sky Be Dark better captures the spirit of both this 21st-century song and the traditional Taiwanese folk song it borrowed from.
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Sheku’s Take on No Woman, No Cry
Sheku Kanneh-Mason‘s arrangement of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” is a perfect example of the vision we advocate for here at Project BachWroteWhat. At just 19, he he transformed a reggae classic by the reggae legend into a Baroque self-accompanied cello piece, and breathed reggae soul back into the music.
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Bach in the Arms of an Angel
Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel”, released in 1997 on the album Surfacing, mesmerized a generation of listeners and remained on major Billboard charts for extended periods. It has now been recomposed into a self-accompanied cello piece in F major, a transposition chosen to take advantage of the cello’s open strings.
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Barokan Farewell
You’ve heard Ashokan Farewell even if you don’t think you know it. You’ve heard it in a TV show, a film, or a documentary about the Civil War. Chances are, if someone played you the first bar, you could hum the rest. What if one were to write a somewhat Baroque-sounding variation of Ashokan Farewell, as a self-accompanied cello music?