Sag das niemandem

David Geringas is one of the world's most important cellists. He has made music history as the first performer of important works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Ernst Krenek, and Anatolijus Šenderovas. As an influential teacher, he has provided solo cellists for almost all of Germany's top orchestras. He says of himself that he was born three times: in 1946 by his mother in Vilnius, in 1963 through lessons with the cellist of the century, Mstislav Rostropovich, in Moscow, and in 1975 through his emigration from the Soviet Union to the West. Geringas recounted his life to music journalist Jan Brachmann: what happened to his Jewish family in Lithuania; how Rostropovich taught and stood up for the dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn; how he himself was spied on by the secret service in the Soviet Union; what questions emigration raised; how Herbert von Karajan worked with the Berlin Philharmonic; but also how Geringas himself rehearsed the works of great composers such as Henri Dutilleux, Krzysztof Penderecki, and György Ligeti. The result is a vivid document of contemporary history that also provides deep insights into the art of cello playing.

Jan Brachmann asked David Geringas extensive questionsfor the book. And he let himfinish! Sometimes it seems as if the cellist jumps from thin stalks to thick stems as he tells his story. And it is precisely these spontaneous leaps of thought that Brachmann has written down with particular precision, as if they were valuable embellishments in a Boccherini cello concerto. Brachmann never loses sight of the overall melody, which he drives forward with a gently pulsating narrative rhythm. It is these little escapades in the memoirs that literally "speak" to us and familiarize us with the cellist David Geringas in the book "Sag das niemandem" (Don't Tell Anyone)." (Sylvia Schreiber, BR Klassik)

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