Alban Gerhardt, Alliage Quintett – Phantasy in Blue: Music for Cello and Saxophone Quintet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:40 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Classical
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Playful yet serious, imaginative yet true to the spirit of the originals: Alban Gerhardt and the inimitable Alliage Quintett offer a wholly new perspective on a variety of favourites drawn from the cello’s established repertoire and beyond.
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:40 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Alliage Quintet has a gift for surprising its audiences by toying with the illusion of a symphony orchestra. The ensemble is like a storyteller regaling its audience with its own version of a traditional narrative.
For ‘Fantasia’, the players joined forces with Sabine Meyer to explore the imaginative world of works by Borodin, Stravinsky, Dukas, Bernstein and Shostakovich – works that are all based on famous fairytales, narratives and stories, e.g. Goethe’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Voltaire’s much-travelled Candide or the Russian folklore Firebird.
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