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2012 / 2013
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Dear
friends, colleagues and
competitors and any visitor,
Most welcome to
all of you who pass by on our site!
Here's a summary of recent news upon our artists:
GILLES APAP
New
Cd will be released in June/July 12
Intensive
long-term cooperation with orchestras in Scandinavia
ROBERTO
PROSSEDA's
Succesful
premier
of Gounod's concert f. Piano-Pédalier and Orch at
Philharmony Berlin with new Pinchi Pedalpiano system
LES DÉSAXÉS
will
be from June on tour in
Europe with their 2 new shows.
'KING'
NAAT VELIOV'S ORIGINAL KOCANI ORKSTAR
will also be
back in Europe in May.
See below for all calendar details as well as additionnal information !
Cordially
Vera Giese
Berlin, in May 2012
And here we go with our music tip
in May :
some excerpts from Jean Jacques
Lemêtre's CD series "CDàID"
(which could
translated as "CD with ideas")
On the 3 recordings published up to now, you'll find an entertaining
porträt of the French allround musician
full of witty, sparkling imaginative music.
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Katchturian,
Conc.
f. violin & orch., 3rd mov
Mario
Brunelleo
&
Orchestra d'Archi
Italiana
Listen:
G.Sollima,
Spasimo, 4thmov
Mario Brunello, Cello &
Orch. d'Archi Italiana
Leos Janacek, String
Quartett, Adagio
Orch.
d'Archi Italiana, cond. M. Brunello
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GILLES APAP
New Cd with
Transylvanian Mountain Boys is going to be released *Intense work with Swedish orchestras*
New programme with Colors of Invention
* Concerts with
Italian cellist Mario Brunello and orchestra *
Apap's new album with his
Californian based band will be released in June/July by his record label Apapaziz Prod.
In 1996, shortly after Apap had founded the group, SONY Classical produced their first
album which became a best seller in
almost no time and was soon followed by a second one.
Both CDs had to be
reprinted by Sony numerous
times
for more than 10 year.
Over the years, their musical style developed to
become a very
homogenous, floating - so to say “Californian” - blend of
virtuosic
classical music, vertiginously whirling Gypsy tunes, jazz and
swing
elements - now beautifully demonstrated by the new album.
On the left side, you'll find already some samples and from
June 2013,
you'll get a chance to listen to the corresponding concert program live on
tour.
In automn 2011, Gilles Apap
started to work with Swedish Nordic
Chamber Orchestra as one of their artistic leaders and will prepare
and perfom with them two concert series each season till May 2014.
Due to the first series of concerts in
September 2011, he has been acclaimed as one of the musical "Highlights
of the Year".
In May
2012, he'll be back in Sweden to prepare and perform a program
with works by Bach, Mendelssohn
and Pärt to be premiered
on May 10 in Sundsvall.
In the fall
2012, the programme will exclusively be dedidacetd to Mozart and in spring 2013 it will be Vivaldi.
Furthermore,
in September 2013, Apap will build the program of a concert
series with another Swedish orchestra, the Norbottens
Kammarorkestar in Lulea, likewise as musical leader and soloist.
Finally, a concert tour with a third Swedish orchestra, the Camerata Nordica is programmed for spring 2014.
Find details of his current complete
concert calendar here
From October
16 - 24, 2012
Apap and Italian cellist Mario
Brunello accompanied by the well known Orchestra d'Archi Italiana will be
on tour with a concert project based upon a
dialogue between violin and cello.
Thus, the program will include the
rare Sonata for violin and cello
by Kodaly and specially
arranged
Hungarian dances by Brahms and
Slawic Dances by Dvorak as
well as a Divertimento by Bartok.
For
Germany, this concert is available already now for 2013 at
ART WORKs.
Apap and his trio "Colors of
Invention" are currently
preparing a new concert
program for automn 2012 which
will also be
recorded.
The program conception is meant to tie to
their already succesful concert series "Vivaldi's
Four Seasons" and "sans
orchestre" : once again, they will perform classical standards
arranged for their special instruments.
This time, concert and CD will include "Firebird" by Stravinsky, "The love
for 3 Oranges" by Prokofjev,
Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" and
the 2nd movement of Tchaikokvsky's
concerto for violin.
For
comprehensive information click
here
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Video link:
Ch. Gounod,
Conc. f. Pedal piano & Orch.
( with Berliner Symphoniker)
Video
link
3rd mov.:
recorded at
rehearsal at Philharmony Berlin
Video-link
2nd. mov.
live
recorded at Pordenone/Italy
Video link:
R. Schumann,
Kanon.
Etude für den Pedalflügel op. 56 n. 4
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ROBERTO
PROSSEDA
Pedal
Piano concert project:
Great Succes at Berlin Philharmonic Hall * New Pedal system
* DVD documentaries
upon
Mendelssohn, Liszt and Chopin
On May 6, in the frame of Prosseda's
Pedal Piano concert cycle, featuring original
compositions written for that rare and almost forgotten instrument, the
premier of Gounod's concert f.
Piano-Pédalier and orchestra at the great hall of Philharmony Berlin has been a great
success for the music, the musicians and the sound and looks of the spectacular instrument, built by two
Bechstein grand pianos
and the new Pinchi Pedalpiano system.
This new portable pedal system has particularly been built by
Italian organ manufaturer Pinchi at the request of Prosseda and is
meant to link 2 grand pianos to each other to
build a modern double pedal piano.
Besides it's technical advantages, the new system improves not only the
sound quality and enlargens the pitch range by 2 octaves, but presents
interesting new possibilities of expression.
Next concerts
with pedal piano: Oct
19+10, 2012, Palermo * Okt, 24-28, 2012, Lugano * April 7+8 2013 Weimar
Prosseda's intense preoccupation with the particular musical
possibilities of the Pedal Piano has also raised the
interest of international media.
Thus, the Wall Street Journal has
dedicated a whole page of it's April issue to him and his pedal piano
cycle. Here are some excerpts:
"Playing Heart, Soul and Feet" - Gounod's
concerto ... is a virtuosic work with a luscious adagio and complex
contrapuntal passages in the fast movements that make spectacular use
of the low, growling notes of teh second piano. ... In addition
to the theatrical element , there is the most architectural quality of
teh sound, created by the interplay of the two vertically stecked
soundboards. In teh works for pedal piano by Schumann, that spatial element is
given an emotional dimension ... "
Likewise, the Italian television recently devoted a programme to this
project and recorded several solo works for pedal piano to be watched
on youtube.
At left, you'll find already a link to a
solo work by Schumann performed by Prosseda.
Finally,
three DVD documentaries upon life
and music of 3 important composers of the Romantic Era, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin, in which Prosseda took part
as author and interpreter are published by
EUROARTS.
.Franz
Liszt - The Pilgrimage Years * Mendelssohn
Unknown *
Fryderyk Chopin
These films
which have been realised with the participation of numerous internationally
known interpreters include fictional scenes shot on original
locations, letters and other biographical materials as well as
interviews and concert clips.
In combination with some of Prosseda's new solo recitals
dedicated to the same composers, they can be used to create a multimedial concert event.
For Prosseda's
complete
concert calendar click
here
For
comprehensive
program information click here
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Listen:
Shake everything... *
Spain *
Ragga
Binouze
* Doudoukali
* Sheherazade
Video:
"Sea, SAX and Fun"
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LES
DÉSAXÉS New programmes and next
tours - Video clip
The Paris based French
saxophone quartett will be again on tour in 2012 with their
new concert show "Sea
Sax & Fun" .
It's once again a musical comedy in which the "Fantastic Four" invite their
audience to
accompany them on
board a ship for a cruise around the world.
Of course, the virtuosic musicians and ingenious entertainers profit
generously from any opportunity to not only play 6 saxophones on four
hands, but also to sing and even to start nasty dialogues with their
brass pipes.
A video
clip upon the new show will be soon available.
Aside, the group presents " SAXophonissimo!
", an unplugged version including the
same music but with less scenic and technical effects.
Thus, it can be realised also in halls with smaller stages and/or
little technic equipment.
Their CD with the
amazing "sound
track" of their show can be ordered
at the ART
WORKs online
CD shop.
Tour-Calendar outside France: June 6
Fürth
(G) * June 8, Wolfsburg (G) * June
25 Harstad
(No) * Sept 2 Hamm (G)
* Oct 27 - Nov 5 Tour
Norway
Comprehensive
information incl.
Audio/Video : www.lesdesaxes.com
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Listen:
"Live on tour"
"Techno
Kolo"
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'King' Naat
Veliov's Original Kocani Orkestar New Cd in 2012 * Next tours
During
fall, the
'best Gypsy trumpet of the Balkans' and his Original Kocani Orkestar
will record a new CD with the program of their new show.
From May 2012, the virtuosic high-speed
musicians will be back in Europe, in their luggage a bunch of new
melodies and thrillign rhythms.
Next concerts: May
26 +27 Dole
(F) * May 29, Leipzig
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Listen:
Interview (french)
"Sabaher" * "Barocco"
Listen:
Slow
à trois * Dublin Gig
Boléro
* Valse
* Magyar
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JEAN JACQUES
LEMÊTRE Premier of
"Babel Project" postponed * Music
for "Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir" available on CD * New
album of the series "Cd à ID"
Due
to technical problems, the opening of
SATosphère
Montréal , the new hall
of the Canadian SAT (Soc. des Arts Technologiques) has
been postponed.
Consequently the premier of Lemetre's
"Babel Project",
a
symphonique composition using spoken
human sounds from all over the world, entitled "Babel
Orkestra" originally programmed for
automn 2011 is now expected to take place in October 2012.
For
this opening,
Lemêtre has created out of
his collection of more than 1800 recorded languages and dialects the
score for an 'opera concertante' which will be complemented by
visuel elements created by
multimedia artist Joseph Lefèvre to become a multimedia
spectacle.
Lemêtre's
stage
music created for "Les Naufragés
du Fol Espoir ", is now
available on CD and
can be ordered at our CDd shop.
Finally, Lemêtre produced the 4th
album of his own Cd series "CD à ID".
The album will be available soon.
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