Described by the New Yorker Magazine as "The Cello Goddess", and by the San Francisco Chronicle as "The Queen of Contemporary Cello", Maya Beiser has been on the forefront of her field, creating a vast new repertoire for her cello.

Eve Beglerian's "I Am Writing to You From a Far Off Country" sets the poetry of Henri Michaux, with Ms. Beiser reciting the poems while playing a cello line that ranges from the insistently rhythmic to the meltingly lyrical. This performance is enveloped in a soundtrack largely of manipulated cello sound (played by Ms. Beiser).

Ms. Beiser is one of a growing number of musicians who have jettisoned the last generation's prejudices against amplification, and who use it imaginatively. Electronics play a more vital role in Joby Talbot's "Motion Detector", which had Ms. Beiser's rich-hued tone singing out from within a bed of sound loops.

"Intense...rich...powerful...Beiser is not the sort of musician who zigzags around the planet playing catalog music for polite and sleepy audience. She throws a gauntlet in every program... The world compacted into Zankel Hall. Music gave Beiser the power to pluck the common utterance from regions thousands of miles apart." - Newsday 3/11/06

"The cellist Maya Beiser treats her concert programs as expansive, evening-length compositions... deep and rich, with a lush vibrato... Ms. Beiser's rich-hued tone singing out from within a bed of sound loops...ranged from the insistently rhythmic to the meltingly lyrical." - New York Times

Track Listing
Eve Beglarian
1-8. I Am Writing to You From a Far Off Country

Joby Talbot
9. Motion Detector
10. Falling