Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Le violoncelle à l’école de Paris (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Le violoncelle à l’école de Paris (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:58 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the devastation of World War I, young, hopeful, gifted composers trooped into the French capital. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term ‘Ecole de Paris (‘Paris School’) for the foreign composers then living there, especially Hungary’s Tibor Hars’anyi (1898-1954), Poland’s Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Czechoslovakia’s Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Russia’s Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), and Romania’s Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), whose works he specialised in disseminating. All five composers featured in this album came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martinu, died there. They initially attempted to translate the essence of folk music from their homelands, using standard musical notation to express idiomatic subtleties that were difficult to capture. The programme includes the world premiere recordings of Hars’anyi’s Rhapsodie and Sonate Pour Violoncelle et Piano, and Mihalovici’s Sonate dans le caract`ere d’une sc`ene lyrique.

On August 26, 1970, Wayne Shorter recorded two separate albums for Blue Note (the other one is Moto Grosso Feio), his final projects for the label. For this set, Shorter doubles on tenor and soprano, utilizing a double rhythm section comprised of vibraphonist Dave Friedman, guitarist Gene Bertoncini, both Ron Carter and Cecil McBee on basses, drummers Billy Hart and Alphonse Mouzon, and percussionist Frank Cuomo. On the verge of joining Weather Report (referred to in the liner notes as “Weather Forecast”), it is not surprising that Shorter’s originals include titles such as “Wind,” “Storm,” and “Calm.” These moody works were never covered by other jazz players but they work quite well in this context, launching melancholy flights by Shorter. – Scott Yanow

Tracklist:
01. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Harsányi: Rhapsody for Cello & Piano (10:50)
02. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Tansman: 2 Pièces: No. 1, Mélodie (03:33)
03. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Tansman: 2 Pièces: No. 2, Capriccio (01:31)
04. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Martinů: Variations sur un thème slovaque, H. 378 (09:06)
05. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Harsányi: Cello Sonata: I. Sempre allegro (07:12)
06. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Harsányi: Cello Sonata: II. Adagio (06:45)
07. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Harsányi: Cello Sonata: III. Vivace (04:02)
08. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Tcherepnin: Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 1, Georgian Song (03:27)
09. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Tcherepnin: Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 2, Tartar Dance (01:22)
10. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Tcherepnin: Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 3, Russian Song (03:30)
11. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Tcherepnin: Russian Songs & Dances, Op. 84: No. 4, Kazakh Dance (03:16)
12. Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Mihalovici: Sonata in the Character of a Lyric Scene, Op. 108 (17:17)

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