Various Artists - Continuum - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Tango Ouh 2. Elisa 3. Superblond 4. Snack 1 5. Waltz for Michel Petrucciani 6. Proko-Type of Polka 7. Snack 2 8. Kartzan's Choice 9. Heartfilms 10. Snack 3 11. 010101 12. Superblond (Single Version)

Listening to the new album by the Coritage Saxophone Quartet means immersing yourself, for a little over an hour, in an atmosphere of suspended contemporaneity, built on a complex web of historical, formal and auditory links. Boundaries consist of a diverse yet harmonious selection of musical pieces, either created or especially arranged for saxophone quartet, that range from the Fifties to the present day. These not only mix contexts and heterogeneous compositional styles, but also evoke atmospheres and sound profiles reminiscent of a wide variety of genres, from jazz to film music, and from so-called cultured music to that of ethnical origin. Album Tracks 1. Cinque Bagatelle (1970-71) 2. Evening Thoughts (2019) 3. Capriccio Ispirato Alle Danze Rumene (2016) 4. Cuarteto Latinoamericano Para Saxofones (1976) 5. Urban (2006) 6. Sei Bagatelle (1953)

For some years now, Hamburg has been reinventing itself as a city of music. The recently opened Elbphilharmonie - the spectacular concert house on the river Elbe - is one of the factors in this development. As is the KomponistenQuartier (composers' quarter) in the Neustadt district between Rödingsmarkt and St. Pauli, with no fewer than half a dozen small museums dedicated to composers such as Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. All of these composers feature on this present Hamburg album, as well as a number of composers, male and female, who all wrote noteworthy miniatures for voice and piano. Mariana Popova was responsible for bringing together these 28 compositions and merging them into a dramatic entity - compositions that together result in a very personal, stylistically multi-facetted Hamburg album (including many worldwide first performances). This is a Hamburg album by two women who have chosen Hamburg as their home Chinese-born Lini Gong and Bulgarian-born Mariana Popova both feel a close bond with the musical life and musical history of Hamburg. As the duo explain InchWe consciously bring together musical languages from three centuries and play about with contrasts and with tone colours, in fact with the entire rich spectrum of the art song genre - a genre that we love very much.Inch Album Tracks 1. Tierverse~Der Adler 2. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Maikäfer-Lied 3. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Geh, du schwarze Amsel 4. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Der Sperling 5. 4 winzige Wunderhornlieder, Op. 9b~Der Butzemann 6. Neue Liebe, Op. 19, Nr. 4 7. Auf stillem Meer 8. Frühlingslied, Op. 1, Nr. 2 9. Drei Morgenstern Lieder~Vöglein Schwermut 10. Drei Morgenstern Lieder~So möcht ich sterben... 11. Drei Morgenstern Lieder~Der Vogel 12. Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß, Op. 1, Nr. 3 13. 4