Trio d’Iroise, SYRIAB – Goldberg Variations (Arr. for String Trio and Arabic Instruments by Trio d’Iroise and SYRIAB) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:25:23 minutes | 2,92 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solaire Records
On GOLDBERG, a classical string trio meets a Syrian percussion group and honey-voiced vocalist Abdalhade Deb for a cross-cultural tour de force. The album fuses Bach’s score with improvisations, rhythms and sacred Islamic poetry. While some pieces are still close to Bach’s Baroque original, others are almost meditational in nature or come with an undeniable jazzy groove. GOLDBERG is unified in its diversity – true East-Meets-West classical world music.
Read moreJuri Vallentin, Trio d’Iroise – Ebenbild (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:19 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PASCHENrecords
There are melodies that accompany us for a lifetime. You twist and turn them, they can inspire, give hope or comfort. For Johann Sebastian Bach [1685-1750] it was a simple hymn: O head full of blood and wounds. He used this melody again and again, in various settings, in some of his greatest works such as the Christmas Oratorio or the St Matthew Passion. It runs through his life as a red thread, like this concept album: Ebenbild is a continuous narrative in which the boundaries between musical genres and between music and language are blurred.
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