Kulka Kraus

Gabriela Kulka - Out [2009 Remaster]
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 446MB | Covers + Booklet | TIFF (LWZ) 300ppi | 57 MB
Jazz | 2000 | Label: Zaiks | Catalog Number: MYSTCD086 | RAR 10% Rec. | RS.com; Filesonic.com

Gabriela Kulka (Gaba Kulka, born 1979 in Warsaw, Poland) is an independent artist, a songwriter and performer. Gabriela Kulka was born to a family of musicians, her father Konstanty Kulka is well known Polish violinist and a professor at Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw.
Over seven years of writing and recording, Gabriela Kulka developed the singular style of dark musical theatre mixed with a jazzy attitude, and a focus on poetic and quirky lyrics - influenced by Danny Elfman and Kate Bush on equal part. Drawing from classical music, jazz and pop, accompanying herself on the piano, she has been performing in the oddest of places (including luxury liner ships along the coasts of Latin America and South Africa, the National Philharmonic House in Warsaw and beer gardens around the shady side of town… not necessarily in that exact order). Following in her father's, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka's footsteps, she endured 8 years of classical schooling in violin, but still ended up embracing the piano as a weapon of choice in her songwriting and performing activities.

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The fourth of d'Albert's twenty operas, "Die Abreise" ("The Departure") was premiered in 1898 at Frankfurt. In a single 40 minute act, its story is very slender indeed. A man (Gilfen) suspects his wife (Luise) of being unfaithful to him with a friend (Trott) so pretends to go away on a journey. Returning "unexpectedly" he finds Luise rejecting the advances of Trott who is summarily ejected. A reconciliation between Gilfen and Luise ensues.

This new release features the first-ever commercial recording of three newly discovered viola concertos by German-born Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus. Joseph Martin Kraus was one of the most innovative composers of his time. With Mozart, he was described by Haydn as one of only two geniuses he knew. Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award and of the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter has emerged as one of the world's most promising young artists. The Philadelphia Inquirer describes him as being “in a league with the best.”