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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: Birdies for Lulu

Read "Birdies for Lulu" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 19, 2014

Sodalizio ampiamente collaudato, quello tra la pianista svizzera e il violinista chicagoano, che in questo nuovo capitolo, inciso a fine 2013, esprime molte delle pieghe espressive che riconosciamo ai due musicisti, sia come singole entità che come coppia. Così il trittico iniziale (inclusa anche la coda finale), frutto della penna di Mark Feldman, privilegia in prima battuta umori estroversi, diretti, persino festosi, alternati (terza parte e inizio della succitata coda) a sequenze più compassate e cogitabonde, in ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: Hotel Du Nord

Read "Hotel Du Nord" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
June 5, 2011

Hotel Du Nord is shot through with heightened sensitivity. In the wake of To Fly To Steal (Intakt, 2010), the group did a series of European tours and this experience of playing together has resulted in heightened musical understanding. The quartet's musical currency--with the original lineup intact--is as informed by Twentieth Century chamber music as it is by creative improvised music, which means their work is about deft strokes as much as rhetorical flourishes. Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier's ...