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Avi Avital

Vivaldi

By Avi Avital

Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 2015
Track listing: Concerto in Am, RV 356; Concerto in D, RV 93; Mandolin Concerto in C, RV 425; Largo form Concerto in C, RV 443; Trio Sonata in C, RV 82; Concerto in Gm, RV 315 “Summer” from The Four Seasons; La biodina in gondoleta.

Avi Avital: Vivaldi

by C. Michael Bailey
February 28, 2015

On his debut recording, Bach (2013, Deutsche Grammophon), mandolinist Avi Avital played a pristine, clinically punctilious JSB. It is therefore no surprise that Avital moves a little earlier in the Baroque Era to produce a very similar collection by Antonio Vivaldi. Avital is an Israeli born in 1978 who took part in a local mandolin youth ...

Bach

By Avi Avital

Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 2013
Track listing: Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052R (originally for violin); Concerto in G minor, BWV 156R (originally for oboe); Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (originally for violin); Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 (originally for Flute).

Avi Avital: Bach

by C. Michael Bailey
September 7, 2013

Johann Sebastian Bach never composed for the mandolin. And that never stopped any mandolin players from appropriating Bach's work, especially for lute. Punch Brothers' Chris Thile recently released his take on the first half of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Nonesuch, 2013), and is merely the latest non-classical artist to take on the great ...

26th Annual Jewish Music Fest with Yemen Blues

January 27, 2011

Fervent Blues, Haunting Songs: The 26th Annual Jewish Music Festival Transforms Traditions from Yemen to Cuba as Premier Platform for New Jewish Music, March 5㬉, 2011 It started with a knock on Festival Director Eleanor Shapiro's door. There stood Avner Yonai, an Israeli businessman who had searched record bins and archives from Buenos Aires, Warsaw, and ...