Avi Avital
»Black Sea« – Around the World / Fokus Mandoline
Music from the Black Sea
Avi Avital gained fame as a mandolin virtuoso playing classical music, or Baroque and Italian music, to be more precise. Composers have neglected this instrument for centuries so Avital decided to bring the mandolin, with its intimate, slightly chirping sound, to the attention of a growing community of fans around the world with transcriptions of works originally written for the violin.
Avital also loves folk music, especially from the Mediterranean. However, he feels most at home in a world in-between that is dominated neither by pure classical nor by unadulterated folk. Many years ago, he gave this space the name »Between Worlds«, the title of one of his albums.
Avital is now heading off on tour with nine like-minded instrumentalists who have grouped together under his direction in the »Between Worlds Ensemble«. In the joint programme »Black Sea« with the Rustavi Ensemble from Georgia, he gets to work on a musical cartography of the cultural sphere of that region.
Performers
Avi Avital mandolin
Between Worlds Ensemble
Ensemble Rustavi
Programme
Black Sea
Anonymus
Imeruli Naduri / Arbeiterlied aus Imeritien (Georgien)
David Bruce
Cut the Rug
Anonymus
Romelni Qerubinta / Volkslied aus Georgien
Anzor Erkomaishvili
Tu Ase Turpa Ikavi
Béla Bartók
Mikrokosmos Sz 107 / Bearbeitung von Jonathan Keren (Auswahl)
Anonymus
Medley traditioneller Melodien / Bearbeitung von Lev »Ljova« Zhurbin
– Interval –
Fazıl Say
Black Earth op. 8 / Bearbeitung von David Bruce
Anonymus
Nacyem nacyem / Türkisches Volkslied (Bearbeitung von Avi Avital)
Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Eight Miniatures on Georgian Folk Tunes for Strings / Bearbeitung von Avi Avital (Auswahl)
Anonymus
Khasanbegura / Historisches Jodellied aus Guria (Georgien)
Josef Bardanashvili
Evening Prayers
Anonymus
Odessa Klezmer Fantasy / Bearbeitung von Jonathan Keren
Otar Taktakishvili
Mingrelian Songs / Bearbeitung von David Bruce (Auswahl)
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