Furstenthal / Fingerlos / Mouissi - Songs and Ballads of Love and Passing - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Els Crommen - Chamber Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2006

With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Fazil Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than twenty-five years, in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organized classical music world. Concerts with this artist are something different. They are more direct, more open, more exciting; in short, they go straight to the heart. On the album now being released by Solo Musica together with the casalQuartett InchBallads & QuintetsInch there are two works by Fazil Say in addition to the Piano Quintet in E flat major op. 44 by Schumann. The casalQuartett, which has won numerous awards, has developed itself a unique sound and style that sheds new light on the heyday of the string quartet. The 3 Ballads op. 12 for Piano Quintet were originally solo piano ballads, which were rearranged especially for this publication for piano quintet. The piano quintet InchThe Moving MansionInch breathes new life into stories of the past. The background is a spectacular tale about the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The Hot Club of San Francisco - Bohemian Maestro Django Reinhardt and Impressionist [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/25/2008