Love Cocina From Diciembre 2016

Polish band Love De Vice was formed in 2007, initially sporting the moniker Playfinger. The core of the initial band, friends who had played together since 1993, consisted of Andrzej Archanowicz (guitars, vocals), Tomasz Kudelski (drums) and Robert Pelka (bass, vocals). For this new venture they were joined by Robert Wieczorek (guitars) and Krzysztof Slaby (keyboards). When they started recording material in 2008 it soon became clear that a vocalist was needed, which is when Pawel Granecki (vocals) joined, and soon after the band left their initial moniker Playfinger behind and decided to continue as Love De Vice.

Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director – in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms (Sony Classical). Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls “music about love and friendship.” Bell, Isserlis and Denk unite here in Brahms’s first published chamber work, the Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 in its rarely performed original 1854 version. Isserlis also joins Bell – as violin soloist and director – and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Brahms’s last orchestral work, the celebrated Double Concerto (for Violin and Cello) in A Minor, Op. 102. Bell, Isserlis and members of the Academy also offer the first recording of an unusual coupling: the slow movement of Schumann’s rarely heard Violin Concerto, in a version for string orchestra made by Benjamin Britten, who also added a short coda.