UMG - The4 - One - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This CD is the first of three albums of music by Giovanni Benedetto Platti, on which we plan to record all twelve cello sonatas and the harpsichord sonatas Op. 1. We are delighted to have found in Platti an interesting and little-known composer whose music is fascinating to explore.Giovanni Benedetto Platti is a classic example of one of the many underestimated composers of the 18th century. Today, his name is familiar only to specialists and his music known to but a very few, yet his work is well worth discovering. A factotum at the Wurzburg court, he wrote eminently attractive sonatas and concertos for oboe, cello, harpsichord and flute, as well as larger scale works including an interesting Requiem.The twelve cello sonatas have survived in a manuscript dated 1725 from the collection of Count von Schonborn in Wiesentheid. They all have four movements and are characterised, as so often in Platti, by a compact and stringent compositional style. Hardly any single movement takes up more than a transverse page of the score, and many of the slow movements only half a page. Born in South Tyrol, Alex Jellici studied the cello in his home town of Bolzano, then in Florence, Vienna and Zurich under Luca Fiorentini, Giovanni Gnocchi and Orfeo Mandozzi. Further studies in baroque cello and viola da gamba followed under Martin Zeller at the Zurich University of the Arts. Matias Lanz has been organist at the Winterthur Veltheim Reformed Church since 2013.He has also been active as a tango pianist for several years. In 2022, together with bandoneonist Jens Biedermann, he founded Tango Bodegon, a cuarteto tipico dedicated to the performance of traditional Argentinian tango. He has attended tango masterclasses with Roger Helou, Pablo Estigarribia, Leonardo Ferreyra and Rodolfo Mederos.

Reissue of 1998 album including bonus tracks. 4 is the fourth studio album by Fourplay, released in 1998. This is their first album with guitarist Larry Carlton. 4 contains a number of Fourplay's finest moments such as 'Still The One', their remake of Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing' featuring El Debarge on vocals, the wonderful Brazillian influenced track 'Rio Rush', and 'Charmed, I'm Sure'. Includes the bonus track 'Out Of Body'

TrombQuartet is a trombone quartet, comprising of the following musicians Piotr Banys, Wojciech Jelinski, Marek Kaczor and Tomasz Kaczor. All the artists are graduates of I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, and Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. They cooperate with prestigious institutions in their everyday professional lives, such as Orchester Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker, T. Szeligowski Philharmonic Orchestra in Poznan, S. Moniuszko Grand Theatre, as well as I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan. What is worth highlighting is the fact that TrombQuarter, which is among the precious few such bands in Poland, was founded in 2012. Ever since then the band has been giving concerts and developing their skills, mastering the unique sound of a trombone quartet, constantly working on their repertoire. During concerts, the artists present not only classical compositions from various periods, but they can also intrigue their audience with their original interpretations of jazz standards, film music, and even pop songs. They also like to employ the works of contemporary artists from the USA, England, Italy and Poland into their repertoire, who write dedicated pieces for the talented quartet. The band cooperates with the eminent composer of the young generation, Ewa Fabianska-Jelinska, who composes new pieces and arrangements for them.