Alla Zingarese / Civitas Ensemble

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
August 17, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Civitas Ensemble, Pavel Sporcl & His Gipsy Way Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      CIVITAS ENSEMBLE PAVEL SPORCL & HIS GIPSY WAY ENSEMBLE
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 17, 2018
    • UPC
      735131917926
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 179
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 1 in G Minor (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

      Performer: Lukáš Sommer

    2. Sérenéde tzigane (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Georges Boulanger

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

      Performer: Lukáš Sommer

    3. Scenes de la Csarda No. 5, Op. 33, "Hullamzo Balaton" (Choppy Balaton) (arr. P. Šporcl and L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Jenö Hubay

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

      Performer: Pavel Šporcl, Lukáš Sommer

    4. Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Pablo de Sarasate

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

      Performer: Lukáš Sommer

    5. Gipsy Odyssey

      Composer: Lukáš Sommer

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

    6. Gipsy Fire

      Composer: Pavel Šporcl

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

    7. Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: IV. Rondo alla zingarese (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble

      Performer: Lukáš Sommer

    8. Dza more

      Composer: Sylvie Bodorová

      Performer: Pavel Šporcl

    9. 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: Gipsy Way Ensemble

    10. Cigi-Civi

      Composer: Lukáš Sommer

      Ensemble: Gipsy Way Ensemble

    11. Peregi verbunk (Pereg Recruiting Dance), Op. 40

      Composer: Leó Weiner

      Ensemble: Gipsy Way Ensemble

    12. Ungarischer Rhapsodie, Op. 68

      Composer: David Popper

      Ensemble: Gipsy Way Ensemble

    13. 2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: No. 1 in A Major (arr. C. Colnot for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Gipsy Way Ensemble


The Civitas Ensemble, an enterprising chamber group founded by Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians, teams up with Czech violin virtuoso Pavel Šporcl and his wildly popular Gipsy Way Ensemble for a groundbreaking collaboration at the crossroads of Western classical and Romani musical traditions.

Alla Zingarese (“in the Gypsy way”) embraces the past with new arrangements of well-loved, Gypsy-infused works by Brahms, Enescu, Hubay, and Sarasate, while celebrating the present with new music by noted Czech composer Lukáš Sommer, written for the combined forces of Civitas’s violin, clarinet, cello, and piano and Gipsy Way’s violin, viola, string bass, and cymbalom (hammered dulcimer), plus a Sommer piece dedicated exclusively to Civitas. All the arrangements and Sommer’s two original compositions are world-premiere recordings. Highlights include Šporcl’s new version of his own Gipsy Fire, the title track from an earlier, best-selling Gipsy Way album. Alla Zingarese marks the Civitas Ensemble’s recording debut and the Cedille label debut for Gipsy Way. Years in the planning, the project is the outgrowth of the enduring friendship between Šporcl and Civitas violinist Yuan-Qing Yu dating back to their student days. Civitas and Gipsy Way recorded the album after premiering the program at packed concert halls in Prague and Chicago. The Chicago Tribune found it “unique” and “exhilarating.” Chicago on the Aisle called it “a trip through musical history . . . and a venture into new musical territory with surprises aplenty.”