Derek Bermel

Derek Bermel, Christopher Otto, Wiek Hijmans, JACK Quartet – Bermel: Intonations (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:01 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Twice GRAMMY-nominated composer and performer Derek Bermel studied with Henri Dutilleux, Dutch avant-gardist Louis Andriessen, and ragtime revivalist William Bolcom. In his music, seemingly antithetical qualities – classical and vernacular, comic and serious – merge and transform each other unpredictably, their inspiration ranging from theatre (Ritornello), to gestalt psychology (Figure and Ground), to meditations on cosmology (A Short History of the Universe). Thracian Sketches explores and reimagines Bulgarian folk music, while the Violin Etudes distill Bermel’s intellectual creativity into its purest form.

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