Albrecht Koch - Silbermann: French - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Albrecht Koch - Weihnachtliche Orgelmusik [COMPACT DISCS] Holland - Import date 04/10/2012

For his sixth Criss Cross , trumpeter Alex Sipiagin focuses more heavily on his own writing than on 2005's Returning. Clearly rooted in the jazz tradition, Sipiagin's compositions continue to evolve his distinctly modernistic approach to harmony, meter and form. Eminently approachable despite their inherent depth and complexity, Sipiagin's five compositions remain as focused and lyrical as his playing. Sipiagin reinvents Thelonious Monk's Epistrophy and Bill Evans' rarely covered Orbit (Unless It's You), both seamlessly fitting within his musical universe while remaining true to their essence. Prints is a definitive statement from an artist whose star continues to rise.

Sven-Ingo Koch straddles the narrow dividing line between a fascination with the music's edges, fractures, and anomalies and a desire for unity and harmony within the tradition of European art music InchAnd yet, despite my experience of insularity, I want to incorporate mutually antagonistic elements in structural processes that will bring them closer together.Inch The title of one of his works, included in this CD has a certain programmatic significance for Koch's music as a whole InchDas Überwinden des groen KlaffensInch [Surmounting the Great Divide].