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Piazzolla Classic Ensemble Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Recorded by GPM-Records and Studio Solingen, CD Audio, DDD, KuK 27 |
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Publishing culture in its authentic form entails for us capturing and recording for posterity outstanding performances and concerts. The performers, audience, opus and room enter into an intimate dialogue that in its form and expression, its atmosphere, is unique and unrepeatable. It is our aim, the philosophy of our house, to enable the listener to acutely experience every facet of this symbiosis, the intensity of the performance. The results are unparalleled interpretations of musical and literary works, simply - audiophile snapshots of permanent value, recorded in direct 2-Track Stereo digital. In our Edition Authentic Classical Concerts we go in search of this dialogue - to the large constructions and rare pearls of human architecture. For every building has its peculiarities, formed by its historical, acoustic and atmospheric circumstances. But the critical element remains the person, the artist with his intellectual sensibilities. The genesis, the origin, the environment, the musical evolution and education are all factors that develop our tastes and preferences: for example, for a love of large spaces, of classical or modern architecture. It is not without reason that the peoples of other continents and cultures enthuse over the fascination of the European experience... is not the land of endless possibilities or the magic of the orient equally worthy of a visit? Is not the sensitivity of an Italian opera singer or a Russian violinist crucial to the interpretation, the handling of the composition, the work? Thus it is, for example, that the Tango Argentino becomes a synonym for the melancholy of the European emigrant in Buenos Aires - expressing the feelings of those uprooted from the old world who had not yet found a place in the new. The musicians of the Piazzolla Classic Ensemble, being of Russian origin while playing as soloists and members of international orchestras, find themselves in a similar emotional situation. The performers empathy with the melancholy, dolor and ardor is evident - surprisingly allowing us to visualize how much Piazzolla's compositions reflect the feelings and the passions of the Russian soul. Impressive, also, is the emotional catharsis of the tango's pain and sadness in the successful bridge formed to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his sublime harmonies allowing a ray of sunshine to appear on the overcast horizon of expatriation. Josef Stefan Kindler |
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Thus it is, for example, that the Tango Argentino becomes a synonym for the melancholy of the European emigrant in Buenos Aires - expressing the feelings of those uprooted from the old world who had not yet found a place in the new. The musicians of the Piazzolla Classic Ensemble, being of Russian origin while playing as soloists and members of international orchestras, find themselves in a similar emotional situation. The performers empathy with the melancholy, dolor and ardor is evident - surprisingly allowing us to visualize how much Piazzolla's compositions reflect the feelings and the passions of the Russian soul. Impressive, also, is the emotional catharsis of the tango's pain and sadness in the successful bridge formed to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his sublime harmonies allowing a ray of sunshine to appear on the overcast horizon of expatriation. Josef Stefan Kindler |
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The Piazzolla Classic Ensemble was founded by soloists of the "Internationalen Symphoniker Deutschland" in 2003. These graduates of renowned conservatories in Russia and Germany are prize winners of many international competitions and are much sought after artists at home and abroad.
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Piazzolla Classic Ensemble
1. Oblivion Las cuatro estaciónes porteñas 2. Primavera Porteña (Spring)
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Evgenia Gelen (violin) was born in Tashkent in 1974 and completed her musical studies under Professor Edward Gratch at the Moscow Conservatory. She continued her studies with Professor Reiner Kussmaul in Freiburg from 2000 to 2002, she has performed as soloist with, among others, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Moscow Radio Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Radio Symphonic Orchestra of Bratislava, Slovakia and the "Grand Symphony Orchestra of Moscow".
Egor Grechishnikov (violin, viola) was born in Moscow in 1974. He started studying under Professor Edward Gratch at the Moscow Conservatory in 1992. He has performed with renowned Russian and European orchestras at home and abroad. He has worked with conductors such as Veronika Dudarowa, M. Ermler, W. Sinyski, W. Ponkin, M. Frontollini, G. Schalmo, A. Rudin and S. Skripka. Egor Grechishnikov made his debut as a conductor with the chamber orchestra, "Musica Viva" at the music festival of the French town, Luxeuil-les-Bains, in 1999.
Maxim Berin (alto saxophone) was born in Minsk in 1979. He attended the Music Lyceum in Minsk from 1990 to 1997 and studied with Thomas Haberkamp at the Detmold University of Music, Germany from 1997 to 2001. He has performed with numerous European orchestras such as the Belarussian Fanfare, the State Orchestra of Belarus, the Minsk Winds Brass Sonics Orchestra, the Minsk Symphony Orchestra and the "Orchester d'Harmonie des Jeunes de L'Union Europeenne" (European Union Youth Harmony Orchestra). He has performed with the pianist, Magarita Lebedkina since 2001 and the National Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus since 2002.
Lev Abramov (cello) graduated from the music school for talented children in Tashkent and studied at the Tashkent State Conservatory. He played with the State Symphony Orchestra of Usbekistan and was the solo cellist as well as being a member of the quartet of the Chamber Orchestra of Turikistan. Lev Abramov has lived in Germany since the year 2000 and has performed nationwide with a number of orchestras of varying sizes. International tours have taken him to some of the most important European centers of music and, among other places, to Australia.
Dmitrij Graf (double bass) possesses many years of experience as a member of the State Symphony Orchestra of Kiev and studied at the Conservatory in Odessa, Ukraine. He has been living in Germany since 2003 where he has performed nationwide with various orchestras. He has been the solo bassist of the German orchestra "Internationale Symphoniker Deutschland" since 2004.