Rudens Turku & Friends: Piazzolla 100

Rudens Turku & Friends: Piazzolla 100

Title: (2021) Rudens Turku & Friends: Piazzolla 100
Artists: Carel Kraayenhof, Oliver Schnyder, Rudens Turku, Württembergisches Kammerorchester
Label: Prospero
Main Composer: Piazzolla, Astor
CD Set: 1 CD
Configuration: Digipack, 24 pages booklet in full color.
EAN/UPC: 0096718849161
Product Number: PROSP0029
Release Date: 2021-10-01
Instruments: Violin, Bandoneon, Piano, Double Bass, Cello
Genres, styles, epochs: 20th Century, 3D Packshot, Cello, Chamber, Crossover, Orchestral, Violin
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About New Album

Auf seinem neuen Album ‚‚Piazzolla 100‘‘ lassen der Geiger Rudens Turku, einige seiner musikalischen Freunde und das Württembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn den argentinischen Musiker und Komponisten Astor Piazzolla hochleben: Der südamerikanische Tango-Revolutionär hätte in diesem Jahr seinen 100. Geburtstag gefeiert. Für seine komplexen und packenden Kompositionen ist Rudens Turku der ideale Solist. Gramophone lobt seine Ernsthaftigkeit und musikalische Intelligenz: “Rudens Turku displays a fiery zeal, seriousness of purpose and clear-headed intelligence… ”Zusammen mit dem Württembergischen Kammerorchester und musikalischen Freunden wie dem hervorragenden niederländischen Akkordeon- und Bandoneonspieler Carel Kraayenhof, dem Pianisten Oliver Schnyder, dem Cellisten Benjamin Nyffenegger oder Dominik Wagner am Bass, interpretiert er die großen und bekannten Piazzolla-Stücke wie Libertango, Milonga del ángel, Oblivion oder Adios Nonino in teilweise neuen, farbenreichen und raffiniert gesetzten Arrangements.

Rudens Turku: ‚‚Diese Musik atmet und lässt uns Musikern die Freiheit, in ungewöhnlich besetzten Ensembles Piazzollas Stil mit Sinnlichkeit und Rhythmus neu zu erfinden‘‘.

On his new album »Piazzolla 100», violinist Rudens Turku, some of his musical friends and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn celebrate the Argentine musician and composer Astor Piazzolla: The South American tango revolutionary would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Rudens Turku is the ideal soloist for his complex and gripping compositions. Gramophone praises his seriousness and musical intelligence: «Rudens Turku displays a fiery zeal, seriousness of purpose and clear-headed intelligence…. »

In conversation, one phrase recurs: «sinking into the tone.» The violinist RUDENS TURKU uses it to underline what he is particularly concerned with: to penetrate into the deep layers of a composition while keeping the composer’s life story and its embedding in a time and its political background present. The music of Astor Piazzolla – concertante music of a cosmopolitan Argentinean with Italian ancestors who grew up in the USA – offers him very special opportunities for this.

Together with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra and musical friends such as the outstanding Dutch accordion and bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof, the pianist Oliver Schnyder, the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger or Dominik Wagner on bass, he interprets the great and well-known Piazzolla pieces such as Libertango, Milonga del ángel, Oblivion or Adios Nonino in partly new, colorful and cleverly set arrangements.

Rudens Turku: »This music breathes and gives us musicians the freedom to reinvent Piazzolla’s style with sensuality and rhythm in unusually cast ensembles.»

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