Kermani

Rhapsody" is the theme of fabulous duo debut album featuring clarinetist Kymia Kermani and pianist Alba Gentili-Tedeschi. With great intensity, the young musicians plunge into the music of the twentieth century – music that, in the improvisational tradition of singers and bards, searches formally for new ways as if born in the moment. The piano and clarinet sound equally free on this recording: the trills rejoice and the glissandi sob in works by Debussy, Gershwin, Borris, Boutry and others – four world premiere recordings are offered on this exceptional album. This is truly a stroke of luck, not only for curious chamber music fans, but for fans of all quality music!

By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route." In this perceptive account from the front line of the "refugee crisis," Kermani shows how a seemingly distant world in which war and conflict rage has suddenly collided with our own.