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Multiple Reviews

Folklore and classicism from ECM: Dino Saluzzi's piano music & The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble

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Two recent ECM releases deal with the interface of folk and classical music, each in its own way. Imágenes presents classical piano music composed by Dino Saluzzi, a musician strongly associated with the Argentinian tango tradition. Komitas takes classical compositions based on Armenian folk music and reimagines them played on the folk instruments that would have played them originally. Dino Saluzzi/Horacio Lavandera Imágenes--Music for piano ECM Records 2015 Argentinian bandoneon player/composer Dino ...

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Extended Analysis

Dino Saluzzi Group: El Valle de la Infancia

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In his 32-year relationship with ECM Records, Argentinean bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi has explored many paths--paths upon which he has rarely traveled more than once, even if there were certain road marks common to them all. A pair of trio recordings with his son, guitarist José Maria Saluzzi, employed two different bassists--Marc Johnson on 1997's Cité de la Musique and Palle Danielsson on 2003's Responsorium--their graceful elegance possessing a similar but different intimacy when compared to the bandoneonist's ongoing duo with ...

Album Review

Dino Saluzzi - Anja Lechner - Felix Saluzzi: Navidad de los Andes

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La regione di La Puna, nelle Ande. Quegli altipiani sospesi tra cielo e terra, tra vulcani e ampi silenzi, con la natura a farla da padrone. E la delicatezza di un bimbo, il miracolo della nascita, la festa del Natale. Questo lo scenario che fa da sfondo a “Navidad de los Andes," album in cui sin dalle prime note riconosciamo chiarissima la cifra stilistica di Dino Saluzzi. Perché questo è, senza ombra di dubbio - nel bene e nel male ...

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Album Review

Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner / Felix Saluzzi: Navidad de los Andes

Read "Navidad de los Andes" reviewed by John Kelman


Most musicians work with a wide range of other collaborators over time, but only a precious few become so empathically close as to engender ongoing relationships. It's no surprise that Argentinean bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi has continued to work with his brother, saxophonist/clarinetist Felix, their genetic bond clearly apparent on Dino Saluzzi Group recordings like Juan Condori (ECM, 2006). The bandoneonist's extra-familial bond with German-born cellist Anja Lechner--first, in his collaboration with the Rosamunde Quartette on Kultrum (ECM, 1998), and nearly ...

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Album Review

Dino Saluzzi / Gidon Kremer / Andrei Puchkarev: Giya Kancheli: Themes from the Songbook

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There is a potent element in the sophisticated pioneer spirit of ECM Records and its founder, Manfred Eicher, that is perfectly illustrated by this recording. Giya Kancheli (born 1935) is a Georgian composer who has produced, among other compositions, film and stage scores over the past 40 years. Kancheli transformed the elements of these scores into piano reductions he called Simple Music for Piano, subtitled “33 miniatures from Music for Stage and Screen." Kancheli's son, Sandro, shortly ...

Album Review

Giya Kancheli: Themes from the Songbook

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Questo particolarissimo CD con musiche del compositore georgiano Giya Kancheli ha una curiosa genesi. Nasce infatti dalla pubblicazione, avvenuta nel 2009, del suo songbook intitolato Simple Music for Piano. 33 Miniatures from Music for Stage and Screen, nel quale Kancheli ha raccolto melodie “d'occasione," scritte per accompagnare appunto rappresentazioni teatrali od opere cinematografiche. Come egli stesso afferma, alcune di queste melodie sono poi finite dentro suoi più complessi lavori, tanto che neppure lui sa più con esattezza in che contesto ...

Album Review

Dino Saluzzi: El Encuentro

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Sarà suggestione dettata dall'organico orchestrale, o forse solo una di quelle scorciatoie mentali che il recensore prende quando si deve confrontare con artisti argentini. Impossibile però, ascoltando questo “El Encuentro" del bandoneonista Dino Saluzzi, non pensare ad Astor Piazzolla. A quell'incontro (per richiamarci al titolo dell'album) di influenze classiche, popolari e tradizionali, sempre permeate da un velo di indefinibile malinconia. In questa Sinfonia Concertante in quattro movimenti, Saluzzi costruisce infatti una serie di paesaggi musicali in continuo movimento, che coprono ...


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