Release Date: 18 September 2020
Label: Anaklasis
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5907795208732
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
Music is created for many different reasons. Sometimes the composers wish to express their joy or find consolation for their suffering in sounds. Some works are commissioned, while others are written in response to a sudden impulse and the music rises up on the winds of inspiration. Some are merely composed as a mirror for the artist’s vanity, others – for purely commercial reasons, to the rhythm of jingling coins that drown out all the more subtle sounds.
High Definition Quartet’s Forefathers’ Eve is perhaps the ensemble's most original project so far, and can serve as proof that fresh starts are still possible in music. The author of the project’s concept, pianist and composer Piotr Orzechowski (b. 1990), has developed great skill in combining the worlds of jazz, classical, folk music, and others.
A Berklee College of Music graduate and first prize winner in the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition, Orzechowski has already recorded albums that are daring attempts at reinterpreting Johann Sebastian Bach, Krzysztof Penderecki, but also a familiar Polish folk dance – the oberek.
In Forefathers’ Eve, the intention has been to bring together jazz, electronic and ambient music in order to represent our familiar contemporary human-physical world’s glimpse into the mysterious other world of spirits, phantoms, and
legends.
Tracklisting
AUKSO Chamber Orchestra Of The City Of Tych
Agata Zubel; Andrej Bauer
Soloists; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir And Orchestra
Mleczko; Hammond; Sinfonia Iuventus Polish Orchestra
High Definition Quartet
Soloists; Poznan Opera/ Warsaw Phil Choir & Orchestras
Soloists; AUKSO Chamber Orchestra Of Tychy
Daniel Rotem; Kuba Stankiewicz
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
