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Alla Zingarese / Civitas Ensemble
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Alla Zingarese / Civitas Ensemble

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Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
CIVITAS ENSEMBLE PAVEL SPORCL & HIS GIPSY WAY ENSEMBLE
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Aug 17, 2018
Catalog #
CDR 179
UPC
735131917926

About

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.”

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 1 in G Minor (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble) 03:33
    Track
    1
    Title
    21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 1 in G Minor (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  3. 2 Sérenéde tzigane (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble) 02:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    Sérenéde tzigane (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Georges Boulanger
    Performer
    Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  4. 3 Scenes de la Csarda No. 5, Op. 33, "Hullamzo Balaton" (Choppy Balaton) (arr. P. Šporcl and L. Sommer for chamber ensemble) 07:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    Scenes de la Csarda No. 5, Op. 33, "Hullamzo Balaton" (Choppy Balaton) (arr. P. Šporcl and L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    07:13
    Composer
    Jenö Hubay
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl, Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  5. 4 Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble) 09:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Pablo de Sarasate
    Performer
    Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  6. 5 Gipsy Odyssey 05:14
    Track
    5
    Title
    Gipsy Odyssey
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  7. 6 Gipsy Fire 09:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    Gipsy Fire
    Duration
    09:21
    Composer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  8. 7 Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: IV. Rondo alla zingarese (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble) 08:14
    Track
    7
    Title
    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25: IV. Rondo alla zingarese (arr. L. Sommer for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    08:14
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble
  9. Disc 2
  10. 1 Dza more 05:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    Dza more
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Sylvie Bodorová
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
  11. 2 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor (arr. for chamber ensemble) 10:30
    Track
    2
    Title
    19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244/R106: No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    10:30
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Ensemble
    Gipsy Way Ensemble
  12. 3 Cigi-Civi 03:47
    Track
    3
    Title
    Cigi-Civi
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Lukáš Sommer
    Ensemble
    Gipsy Way Ensemble
  13. 4 Peregi verbunk (Pereg Recruiting Dance), Op. 40 05:53
    Track
    4
    Title
    Peregi verbunk (Pereg Recruiting Dance), Op. 40
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Leó Weiner
    Ensemble
    Gipsy Way Ensemble
  14. 5 Ungarischer Rhapsodie, Op. 68 08:20
    Track
    5
    Title
    Ungarischer Rhapsodie, Op. 68
    Duration
    08:20
    Composer
    David Popper
    Ensemble
    Gipsy Way Ensemble
  15. 6 2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: No. 1 in A Major (arr. C. Colnot for chamber ensemble) 07:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: No. 1 in A Major (arr. C. Colnot for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    07:21
    Composer
    George Enescu
    Ensemble
    Gipsy Way Ensemble