Dino Saluzzi - El Viejo Caminante - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

An album of soliloquies. After highly acclaimed music from the family band and orchestra, here is the great Argentinean bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi in his first purely solo project in decades. Recorded in Buenes Aires, it's a powerful reminder of his gifts as an intimate musical storyteller of great subtlety. Reaches back to early memories with InchDon CayeInch, a touching dedication to Dino's father. Reflects upon the fleeting passage of time, instrument and performer breathing as one.

Commissioned by Marc Collet and Ensemble21, Onze Folksongs d'ici et d'ailleurs by Jean-Marie Rens is a complete rearrangement of his Sept chansons traditionnelles flamandes, francaises et wallonnes composed over twenty years ago. This new version calls for a larger instrumental ensemble, since it was rewritten for the lineup of Luciano Berio's famous Folk Songs, to which it offers an original and unprecedented mirror. The challenge here was to preserve the specific character of these Sept chansons while carrying out a massive task of orchestration-arrangement as well as composition. Luciano Berio is arguably the most prominent figure in contemporary Italian music. He composed the cycle of Folk Songs in 1964 for his wife, the American soprano Cathy Berberian. A remarkable fusion of popular and classical music, they represent a kind of anthology made up of eleven folk songs of various origins that the composer had found on old records, in printed collections or heard directly from friends. Albane Carrere and the Ensemble21 conducted by Marc Collet approach these two collections with infinite tenderness and a subtle art of evocation. Albane Carrere's mezzo voice weaves the link and travels imperceptibly between these two worlds.

Dino Saluzzi - El Valle de la Infancia [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/2014