Dodgson / Turnbull - Music for Oboe 3 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The new album InchAsiagoInch by the creative soloist Julius Berger is a clever application and further development of a very pleasing, strong new trend in musical life imaginative explorations of new repertoire fields by opening up new music to the vast areas of other cultures. In the case of the violoncello, this development seems almost provoked by it's technical and traditional repertoire boundaries. Julius Berger demonstrates how - even in a landscape such as the Alps, which seems to be closely interwoven with classical music as the homeland of well-known traditional folk music history - a closer look can reveal highly exciting and completely different ethno-potentials. He has developed a well-rounded CD program of newly written music from the precious find of the small ethnic group of the Cimbri, who came from the north and settled in what is now northern Italy, centuries ago, and still live there today with their own language. Most of this music was first performed at the annual Asiago Festival, which has been existing for 25 years now, and in various combinations - solo, in duet, with prepared piano and with cello ensemble and chamber orchestra - he has created a large, suggestive and meditative new repertoire for the low string instrument.

Surely, no map could chart the fantastic voyage presented in this . For while this odyssey takes us around a large part of the globe, via the music of Ireland and the British Isles, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, North Africa, Turkey, the Balkans, and Asia, it is largely an imaginary voyage, an interior journey made by the performers, inspired by their travel experiences and their passion for a geographical or temporal 'elsewhere'. Music has the power of transporting us, in both senses; it can open the ear - and the mind - to other worlds, other cultures and customs; and it can exhilarate and transcend the senses. Here are recordings by iconic artists of the Alpha tag such as le Poème Harmonique, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, and Cappella Mediterranea - all represented in this .

Susan Alexander-Max - Sonata in E Flat / Sonata in F Major / Contemplazi [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/17/2009