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Duo Gurfinkel Concertante

Duo Gurfinkel

Duo Gurfinkel Concertante

Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533961
Catnr: AVI 8553396
Release date: 09 March 2018
1 CD
 
Label
CAvi
UPC
4260085533961
Catalogue number
AVI 8553396
Release date
09 March 2018
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Our first CD
Alexander & Daniel Gurfinkel

“The idea to record our debut CD emerged when we met Maestro Evan Christ in Ingolstadt, where we performed two concerts together. We were also honored to perform together with Evan in Israel. Thanks to his suggestion of making the recording with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra, we are now privileged to hold our first CD in our hands.

The repertoire we have chosen is varied: these works have been close to our hearts for a long time. This CD is the synthesis of our lifelong dedication and love for music. We are so thrilled to have finally reached one of the most significant stages in our lives!
We look forward to receiving much positive feedback and constructive criticism, for further plans and projects.
As young musicians, we know what a privilege it is to get the chance to record a CD, and we therefore extend our warmest thanks to Andreas and CAvi-Music for all his support and encouragement!”

Artist(s)

Daniel Gurfinkel (clarinet)

Evan Alexis Christ (conductor)

Evan Alexis Christ is one of the leading conductors of his generation. He has gained fame thanks to his sophisticated choice of repertoire and concert programming, consistently including early music and new music. Christ has already conducted over 80 world premieres, all standard repertoire works for orchestra, and over 45 stage productions. Christ has a particular penchant for film music. His performances are preserved on a great number of CD releases, and several of them have been recorded for public broadcast. Christ has conducted over 30 internationally renowned concert and opera orchestras. He made his Salzburg Festival début in the summer of 2011 with the performance of Salvatore Sciarrino’s opera Macbeth together with the Vienna-based Klangforum Wien contemporary chamber music orchestra....
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Evan Alexis Christ is one of the leading conductors of his generation. He has gained fame thanks to his sophisticated choice of repertoire and concert programming, consistently including early music and new music. Christ has already conducted over 80 world premieres, all standard repertoire works for orchestra, and over 45 stage productions.

Christ has a particular penchant for film music. His performances are preserved on a great number of CD releases, and several of them have been recorded for public broadcast. Christ has conducted over 30 internationally renowned concert and opera orchestras. He made his Salzburg Festival début in the summer of 2011 with the performance of Salvatore Sciarrino’s opera Macbeth together with the Vienna-based Klangforum Wien contemporary chamber music orchestra. Born in Los Angeles, Christ first studied mathematics and composition at Harvard University. He then went on to study conducting with Gert Bahner at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, and took private lessons with Christoph Eschenbach.

He occupied the post of First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg between 2003 and 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was engaged as First Kapellmeister at the Wuppertaler Bühnen theaters, and served as Acting General Music Director at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg in 2005/2006.

Since August 2008, Evan Alexis Christ has been General Music Director at the Cottbus State Theater.


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Composer(s)

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer, who is mostly known due to his combinations of classical and popular music genres. George Gershwin grew up in a poor neighbourhood in New York. His parents were Russian immigrants who had trouble making ends meet. They did, however, decide to purchase an old piano so Ira Gershwin could study to become a musician. Yet, it turned out not Ira, but his younger brother George showed remarkable talent. Ira applied himself to writing song lyrics and together the Gershwin brothers became absolute greats in the world of 20th century musicals. Nowadays, George's compositions are still relevant, as is evidenced by the many performances of his Rhapsody in Blue from 1924. But the best example is the ageless Summtertime,...
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George Gershwin was an American composer, who is mostly known due to his combinations of classical and popular music genres.

George Gershwin grew up in a poor neighbourhood in New York. His parents were Russian immigrants who had trouble making ends meet. They did, however, decide to purchase an old piano so Ira Gershwin could study to become a musician. Yet, it turned out not Ira, but his younger brother George showed remarkable talent. Ira applied himself to writing song lyrics and together the Gershwin brothers became absolute greats in the world of 20th century musicals. Nowadays, George's compositions are still relevant, as is evidenced by the many performances of his Rhapsody in Blue from 1924. But the best example is the ageless Summtertime, which has been covered a countless number of times by a countless number of artists.


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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet was a French composer of the romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, he was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were likewise largely ignored; as a result, his...
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Georges Bizet was a French composer of the romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, he was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were likewise largely ignored; as a result, his career stalled, and he earned his living mainly by arranging and transcribing the music of others. Restless for success, he began many theatrical projects during the 1860s, most of which were abandoned. Neither of his two operas that reached the stage in this time—Les pêcheurs de perles and La jolie fille de Perth—were immediately successful.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, during which Bizet served in the National Guard, he had little success with his one-act opera Djamileh, though an orchestral suite derived from his incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne was instantly popular. The production of Bizet's final opera, Carmen, was delayed because of fears that its themes of betrayal and murder would offend audiences. After its premiere on 3 March 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure; he died of a heart attack three months later, unaware that it would prove a spectacular and enduring success.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist. He was a musical prodigy, writing his first pieces of music at the age of four and making his concert debut at the age of ten. During this concert he astonished the audience by playing one of the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven at its request. After his studying at the Conservatory of Paris he followed a career as a church organist at Saint-Merri and later La Madeleine in Paris. He was also a successful freelance composer and pianist in France and abroad. Saint-Saëns initially helped to introduce German composers such as Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner in France. However, from 1870 onwards anti-German sentiments began to arise in France as...
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Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist. He was a musical prodigy, writing his first pieces of music at the age of four and making his concert debut at the age of ten. During this concert he astonished the audience by playing one of the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven at its request. After his studying at the Conservatory of Paris he followed a career as a church organist at Saint-Merri and later La Madeleine in Paris. He was also a successful freelance composer and pianist in France and abroad.
Saint-Saëns initially helped to introduce German composers such as Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner in France. However, from 1870 onwards anti-German sentiments began to arise in France as a result of the Franco-Prussian War, which enhanced support for the idea of a pro-French musical society. In 1871 Saint-Saëns consequently founded the Société Nationale de Musique together with Romain Bussine, that was devoted to the promotion of French music and organised concerts on which young composers could perform their works.
Saint-Saëns was a keen traveler, and made 179 trips to 27 different countries during his life. He favoured Algeria and Egypt, were he gained inspiration for compositions such as the Suite Algérienne and the Fifth Piano Concerto, also known as The Egyptian.
Saint-Saëns' best-known works include the First Cello Concerto, Third Symphony, the opera Samson et Dalila, Danse Macabre and Le carnaval des animaux, a humorous suite in which various animals are musically portrayed. However, he never wanted the last work to be performed, since it was contrary to his image as a serious composer.
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