Maria Luisa Baldassari - St Sigismond King of Borgogna: Oratorio for 5 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Maria Luisa Baldassari - Dulces Exuviae [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/04/2001

STANDARD is the name of Aubrey Logan's new album. But there is nothing about it that is normal or average. Since breaking onto the LA music scene in 2013, Aubrey has turned the jazz genre on it's ear. In fact, she has refused to be categorized by a single genre. Attending one of Aubrey's shows is like going to the carnival and buying a ticket to the house of mirrors-one never knows what is going to be just around the corner.So one might expect that on an album named STANDARD, one would be hearing another retread of standard jazz tunes... with just another singer. But just like that house of mirrors, you should expect to be surprised. Yes, you will hear some jazz classics... but not like you've ever heard them before. And you'll hear a couple of new jazz classics (penned by Ms. Logan herself). But you may also hear an opera tune or a classic rock song that has been magically and seamlessly transformed by a jazz arrangement.

A musician and teacher, Francesco Durante was so known at his time that his name was given to a compositional school (that of the InchdurantistiInch). He composed mostly vocal music, especially sacred; his keyboard works make up a limited part of his production where virtuosity is extremely common; elements like very rapid scales, arpeggios or the crossing of the hands are also widely found in other contemporaries from Naples, but his writing preserves characteristic features which are absolutely personal. On this , Maria Luisa Baldassari performs these virtuosic works with emotion and aplomb.