Hollywood’s #1 cellist creates album for ‘superhuman’ wife with MS

Hollywood’s #1 cellist creates album for ‘superhuman’ wife with MS

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norman lebrecht

September 21, 2016

The Swiss cellist Martin Tillman has been the go-to soloist for Hans Zimmer and other blockbuster composers for more than 30 years.

Now he has composed an album of his own, a tribute to his wife, Eva, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis.

‘The feeling came from desperation, sadness, the shock of the diagnosis and from her being gradually weakened over the years, and I knew I wanted to write an album that helped her to not feel hopeless, and to empower her with the sounds,’ he says.

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