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Florian Willeitner, Ivan Turkalj, Alexander Wienand - What the Fugue (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 26, 2024

Florian Willeitner, Ivan Turkalj, Alexander Wienand - What the Fugue (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet / MP3 320 kbps | 51:31 | 121 / 228 Mb
Genre: Jazz

Now here’s a challenge: to take the fugue, possibly the most complex compositional procedure in Western classical music, and to transform it to reflect the modern age. The ‘New Piano Trio’ - violinist Florian Willeitner, cellist Ivan Turkalj and pianist Alexander Wienand – has taken this task to heart. Rather than being in any way daunted by the towering achievements of the baroque period, these three classically trained and extremely open-minded musicians have risen to the occasion, and achieved a fine balance between the rigour of the art of fugue and the freedom of jazz in their album ‘What the Fugue’.

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Erik Truffaz - Best Of [3CD] (2011) Music

Posted by gribovar at April 7, 2025

Erik Truffaz received an early introduction into the world of a professional musician, thanks to his saxophone-playing dad. When he was ten years old, the French trumpeter began performing in his father's dance band. As he grew older, Truffaz performed with other bands in the region until he was 16 and heard Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. The great jazz trumpeter's music inspired him to learn more, and he set off for Switzerland's Geneva Conservatoire, where he became a student. Truffaz's repertoire expanded to works by Mozart and Verdi, and he performed as part of L'Orchestre de Suisse Romande. He also played in cover bands before establishing a group called Orange. The band concentrated on Truffaz's compositions…

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