Release Date: 09 February 2024
Label: Antarctica
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917735420
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
This album features a collection of composers with diverse backgrounds, including Glazunov, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Kokai, and Jan van der Roost, showcasing a fusion of Eastern and Western musical elements. The composers share a common toolbox of themes and techniques, emphasizing the unity in diversity across different cultural influences, providing a cohesive and well-integrated musical journey.
The clarinet is presented as the central and ultimate interpreter of this musical lore, underlining its significance and role in conveying the essence of Eastern art music.
The disc promises to offer a holistic musical experience, bringing together various cultural threads through the common medium of the clarinet, providing a well-rounded and immersive listening experience.
If Eastern art music has a folk heart, its arteries are Roma and Klezmer sounds. From the orientalist imagination of Glazunov, the Jewish adoption of Prokofiev, the Uzbek inspiration of Khachaturian, to the Romani-Hungarian roots of Kokai and the Balkanism of Jan van der Roost: all composers on this disc build on the same toolbox of themes and techniques, and they all rely on the clarinet as the ultimate interpreter of this lore. Acknowledged and exquisitely performed by the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble.
MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL RECORDING OF THE MONTH
There is outstanding homogeneity and richness of the sound [the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble] make together. It is as though they are thinking as one perfectly formed organism. […] This disc is a triumph." – MusicWeb International
"Klezmer and gypsy melodies are the wellsprings from which the music on this delightful disc pours forth […]. The players of the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble are ain sensitive, nimble and idiomatic form." – BBC Music Magazine ****
Tracklisting
Svenja Van Driessche & Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort
Antarctica
Roeland Hendrikx, Jan Michiels, Brussels Philharmonic, Il Novecento, Robert Groslot
Mayke Rademakers
Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Zemlinsky Quartet, Ataneres Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
George De Decker
Four Aces Guitar Quartet
Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
