Abel / Pitmann - Time & Distance - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2013 from the Swedish Prog Rock band. With love for Hard Rock and hatred of the genres conventions and standardization, the Schelander brothers began writing songs together many years ago. To write music together, simply for the love of writing, was an old Christmas tradition between the brothers. The winter breaks filled the house with Reggae, Samba, Rock and a lot of other songs in different genres. But in 2005 things got more serious. The goal was to write 10 songs, each with it's own identity but still naturally included in a collection of ten. One rule was that each song would have free reign to take the paths it wanted to. Like characters in a novel the songs would be able to travel their own ways and the composer's task was only to document it's path.

Abel / Wagner - Abel The Drexel Manuscipt [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/2016

With this program Yorick-Alexander Abel honors the unsurpassed cello legend Pau Casals who as a Catalan is mainly known under his Spanish name Pablo Casals. When at 97 years old Casals died in Puerto Rico he had made the cello as a solo instrument more popular than anyone else - and he had won worldwide respect and affection as UN ambassador for peace. Pau Casals was the son of a Catalan father and a Puerto-Rican mother. After World War II he went into exile in Puerto Rico. YorickAlexander Abel is the son of a German father and a Cuban mother with Catalan ancestors. It is more than the European-Creole ancestry that links Abel with the legendary Casals, it is also the conviction in the power of the spiritual message, and of course - as with all the cellists - the love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach whose six suites for cello solo were recognized as the peak of cello literature due to Casals's celebrated performances and recordings. InchHommage à Pau CasalsInch is a journey between epochs and styles, a journey with many cross connections.