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1: Lovebird (9:58)
: Hidden Songs Suite ()
7: Grace & Gratitude Suite (25:00) |
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| Number of discs: |
1 |
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Prague Radio S.o. / Works By Tomas Sykora |
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| Description: | Songs For Orchestra is an album by David/Tomas Liska/Roman Vicha Farek, released in 2021. The album is a classical CD. - PRAGUE RADIO S.O. / WORKS BY TOMAS SYKORASongs for Orchestra is a new album and the most extensive music project to date by jazz pianist and composer Tomás Sıkora. It features a live recording of a concert performance in honor of Karel Ruzicka's memory. Sıkora assembled the programme as a curator of the "New Horizons" concert series by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra which merges jazz and classical music in unique concert projects, just as is the case of the present album. Sıkora has been joined by three other jazz soloists on the recording - saxophonist David Fárek, double bassist Tomás Liska and drummer Roman Vícha - and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra which performs under the baton of Stepánka Balcarová who is best-known as the artistic director of the Concept Art Orchestra big band. Sıkora was Ruzicka's student of many years, but also a close friend and an arranger of his compositions. The album comprises Ruzicka's famous piece Lovebird, originally composed for a chamber ensemble and jazz quartet, which Sıkora scaled up with woodwinds and tympani. This is followed by Sıkora's own suite, Hidden Songs, consisting of five movements in contrasting tempos, in which classical music alternates with jazz and improvised passages by the soloists and still manages to evoke various song forms. The album is concluded by arrangements of a selection of compositions from the latest album by Karel Ruzicka junior, Grace and Gratitude, which are combined into a single whole and culminate in one grand finale. |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
ANI0932 |
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