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Duo Arcos releases their new album Autre Temps. The duo is made up of harpist Paola Baron and violinist Edgar Leite, who have been active in chamber music for eight years. They are also members of the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra and lecturers at FASM (Santa Marcelina College), the Baccarelli Institute and EMESP (São Paulo State Music School). The programme features the Sonata in G minor by C.P.E. Bach and the Sonata BWV 1016 by J.S. Bach, in an exclusive performance of the harpsichord part. It also features works by French impressionists, including three pieces by Lili Boulanger (rarely performed in Brazilian programmes) and transcriptions of works by Claude Debussy for the formation.

There is something timeless in the performance of a jazz ballad. By nature, they are very open to unique interpretation. Drummer Tony Moreno inherited an appreciation for ballads from his mother, a professional harpist, which eventually led to Moreno regularly performing them with his Trio. After twenty years of leading the group, Moreno has compiled some of his mother’s favorites to record with the trio on their debut album, Ballads Volume 1.

Marco Albonetti writes: ‘”Amarcord” signifies memory, the nostalgic re-enactment of the past. Here, it evokes the idea of joining two instruments, the saxophone and the bandoneón, both of which were invented in the middle of the nineteenth century. The bandoneón, created as a more agile substitute for the organ in the world of sacred music in Germany, was brought by German immigrants to Buenos Aires, where it became central to the tango, a music enlivened by rhythmic ideas from Africa and inextricably linked to dance.

French Piano Trios - Trio GaonTrio Gaon presents major works of French chamber music with compositions by Debussy, Ravel, Lili Boulanger and Francaix.

Daniel Barenboim wurde am 15. November 1942 in Buenos Aires als Sohn von russisch-aschkenasischen Eltern geboren.

ZRI's Cellar Sessions re-creates the atmosphere of the Red Hedgehog Tavern in Vienna from which the band takes its name.

Jean Perrin (September 17, 1920 – September 24, 1989) was a Swiss composer and pianist. He composed in a neo-classical style, sometimes approaching polytonality, and his music shows the influence of Stravinsky and Poulenc.

After a banner year that witnessed Lafawndah release her first album Ancestor Boy, the debut of her soundsystem Fara Fara, and further incursions into film, contemporary art and fashion, the ceaseless artist returns with another plot twist: The Fifth Season.

Astor Piazzolla, the great Argentine composer and bandoneon player, was born exactly a century ago in 1921. Fascinated by the music of Bach, Mozart and Chopin, Piazzolla wanted to compose great classical music. From Alberto Ginastera he received lessons in orchestration, composition and conducting, as well as in literature and poetry.