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Bach, Schubert, Swift, S. Knowles et al: Cellar Sessions / ZRI Ensemble
First Hand Records

Bach, Schubert, Swift, S. Knowles et al: Cellar Sessions / ZRI Ensemble

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Details

Composer
Solange, Johann Sebastian Bach, Miska Borzo, Georges Boulanger, Francisco Cavez, Aurel Gore, Jay Gor
Artist
Zri
Format
CD
Label
First Hand Records
Released
Nov 11, 2022
Catalog #
FHR136
UPC
5060216343136

About

The For nearly a hundred years, the doors of the famous Red Hedgehog coffee house (Zum roten Igel) opened onto the very heart of Viennese musical life. The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde established the city’s first public concert hall there, hosting regular premières by Beethoven, and then Schubert, who even lived next door at one point. As if that wasn’t enough, the complex of buildings included a bar at the back with a vaulted cellar that later became Brahms’s favorite haunt, where patrons caroused and who knows what kind of musical activities went on after hours. The original building was demolished in 1906, but the spirit of the great composers feeding off the soundscape of a dynamic and cosmopolitan urban culture lives on in ZRI. Schubert and Brahms were both fascinated by Hungarian ‘Gypsy-band’ music and it became as fashionable as the waltz in Vienna, with one of the tunes included here still a concert favorite even now in an arrangement by Brahms. Bach may never have been to the city but some of his music must surely have been performed at the Igel and his ghost presided over the whole tradition.

This recording celebrates ghosts from the future too. American tunes were being played in Vienna even in Brahms’s time, and once the first recordings started to arrive the jazz influence on improvising Hungarian bands and artists like Georges Boulanger was immediate. The transatlantic flavor of Hora din Budesti and Tamboo owes much to this uniquely Viennese melting pot and, if the Igel still stood, the fusion of old-world instruments with contemporary songs by Donna Summer, Solange and Taylor Swift would not be out of place.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Tokay (arr. for chamber ensemble) 02:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Tokay (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Georges Boulanger
    Ensemble
    Zri
  2. 2 Shake It Off - Lebedik un freylach (arr. M. Baillie, J. Banks, B. Harlan, I. Pissaride and M. Sharp) 04:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    Shake It Off - Lebedik un freylach (arr. M. Baillie, J. Banks, B. Harlan, I. Pissaride and M. Sharp)
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Abe Schwartz, Taylor Swift
    Ensemble
    Zri
  3. 3 Horă din Budeşti (arr. for chamber ensemble) 04:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Horă din Budeşti (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Aurel Gore
    Ensemble
    Zri
  4. 4 I Feel Love (arr. M. Baillie, J. Banks, B. Harlan, I. Pissaride and M. Sharp) 05:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    I Feel Love (arr. M. Baillie, J. Banks, B. Harlan, I. Pissaride and M. Sharp)
    Duration
    05:34
    Composer
    Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer
    Ensemble
    Zri
  5. 5 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (arr. for chamber ensemble) 04:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Zri
  6. 6 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (arr. for chamber ensemble) 04:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    Brother Can You Spare a Dime (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Jay Gorney
    Ensemble
    Zri
  7. 7 Tamboo (arr. for chamber ensemble) 04:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    Tamboo (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Francisco Cavez
    Ensemble
    Zri
  8. 8 Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929: II. Andante con moto (arr. for chamber ensemble) 09:24
    Track
    8
    Title
    Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929: II. Andante con moto (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Ensemble
    Zri
  9. 9 Scales (arr. M. Baillie, J. Banks, B. Harlan, I. Pissaride and M. Sharp) 02:32
    Track
    9
    Title
    Scales (arr. M. Baillie, J. Banks, B. Harlan, I. Pissaride and M. Sharp)
    Duration
    02:32
    Ensemble
    Zri
  10. 10 Isteni csárdás (arr. for chamber ensemble) 03:44
    Track
    10
    Title
    Isteni csárdás (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Miska Borzó
    Ensemble
    Zri
  11. 11 Boulevard Boulanger (arr. for chamber ensemble) 04:34
    Track
    11
    Title
    Boulevard Boulanger (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Georges Boulanger
    Ensemble
    Zri
  12. 12 Rote rosen (arr. for chamber ensemble) 03:35
    Track
    12
    Title
    Rote rosen (arr. for chamber ensemble)
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Helmut Ritter
    Ensemble
    Zri