Release Date: 16 May 2025
Label: Dreyer Gaido
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260014871638
Genres: World Music Classical
Description
The live album by Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh is dedicated to the memory of his father, who died in 2024, but it also celebrates the musical friendship between the four musicians, who first played together in New York in 2006.
Many of the pieces on his album were composed during the Syrian uprising in 2011 and are characterised by anger and sadness, but also by unwavering optimism and hope. Azmeh is convinced that making music is an act of freedom and has ultimately prevailed against violence and tyranny in Syria.
Taken from a live recording from a performance in Berlin.
Tracklisting
Aynur
Johnson, Carlos/Schwarz, Hans-Christian
Wu Man & Wu Wei
Kinan Azmeh and CityBand
Wu Wei; Ingolf Burkhardt; Florian Weber (Silk Jazz Trio)
Noemie Chemali; Shaleah Feinstein; Raffi Boden; Yann Chemali
Grand Trio Vilnius
Guy Braunstein; Sistanagila
Tibor Gyenge, Michael Schoch
Oda Voltersvik
Nils Anders Mortensen
Lars Notto Birkeland, Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps, Peter Szilway, Eirik Raude
Ben van Oosten
Gudrun Sidonie Otto, Elvira Bill, Georg Poplutz, Thilo Dahlmann Goldberg Baroque & Vocal Ensemble,
Maxim Rysanov; Dasol Kim; Roman Mints; Kristina Blaumane; BBC Concert Orchestra; Dobrinka Tabakova
Paul Smith
