Vassilena Serafimova

Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Bach Mirror (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:10 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks

On the album “Bach Mirror” the French pianist Thomas Enhco and marimba player Vassilena Serafimova give well-known and less well-known works by Johann Sebastian Bach an innovative sound. Pieces such as the Prelude No. 2 from the Well-Tempered Clavier or the Air from the orchestral suite No. 3 sound new and fresh in the unusual instrumentation of piano and marimba. With their sound painting arrangements, Thomas Enhco and Vassilena Serafimova expose Bach’s harmonic-melodic work structures and enable the audience to gain new perspectives on the architecture of his unique compositions.

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Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Avalanche (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 12:08 minutes | 203 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks

A little over seven years ago, my piano teacher Gisèle Magnan called me up and said: “Hello, Thomas, I’ve discovered an utterly amazing classical percussionist, a young Bulgarian woman who plays the marimba divinely. I want you to do a concert together; it will be fantastic!”

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Thomas Enhco & Vassilena Serafimova – Funambules (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:40 minutes | 522 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Digital Booklet | © Deutsche Grammophon
Recorded: TAP Auditorium in Poitiers, September 2-6, 2015

Jazz pianist Thomas Enhco also recognized in the jazz world, formed a duo with percussionist extraordinary Vassilena Serafimova. Their first album, Funambules, appears to April 8 for Deutsche Grammophon. From Mozart to The Verve, from Bach to their own compositions.
Paths Vassilena and Thomas intersect at the crossroads … and there is of course Mozart: marimba and piano are found as equals in the three movements of the Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K.448. The virtuosity and energy of the two artists are deployed with ease in this masterpiece at a time full of joy and deep, they offer us a version never heard before.
Vassilena passes naturally through the transcript to fit a Bach fugue taken from the Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Major BWV 1001. Aquarium, extracted from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens, is itself completely arranged for piano and marimba prepared, offering an inventive interpretation and full of madness. Thomas Enhco re-aligns Pavane op.50 by Gabriel Fauré for a darker, melancholy version of Vassilena while transforming its marimba in a hybrid instrument between organ, cello and bassoon.
He composed for the duo; Eclipse, a dreamy and romantic walk, playing the lightness of their two keyboards, Palimpsest, which painted a soft light with the woody waves of marimba while the slow piano melody is the path, as a guide in a forest Magic.
She teaches him a traditional song from his native Bulgaria, Dilmano, Dilbero they unite their voices clear, and create an epic and hair-raising work-river.
They order the American composer Patrick Zimmerli: Signs of Life – Blood Pressure drives the two instruments in a crazy race, bowing to Steve Reich pass. They give a full version of Bitter Sweet Symphony groove, worldwide hit Britpop group The Verve.

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