AkMi Duo – Beyond The Wall (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

AkMi Duo – Beyond The Wall (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:46 minutes | 988 MB | Genre: Classical, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records

Valentine Michaud was the first ever saxophone soloist to perform with the Vienna Philharmonic. She and her regular collaborator, pianist Akvilė Šileikaitė, comprise the award-winning AkMi Duo. They debut on AVIE with Beyond the Wall, an album of contrasting 20th century sonatas linked by history and geography. Edison Denisov’s Soviet serialism, tinged with forbidden jazz influences, took a cue from the American modernism of William Albright. Austro-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff embraced avant garde and jazz idioms, leading the Nazis to brand his music “degenerate”; he perished in the Wülzburg prison camp in 1942. Paul Hindemith fell in and out of favour with the Nazis, leading him to immigrate to Switzerland and later America. His popular Saxophone Sonata is by turns lyric and dramatic, imbued with irony and humour.

Tracklist:

01. AkMi Duo – Viola Sonata Op. 11, No. 4 (Arr. for Saxophone and Piano by Valentine Michaud & Akvile Sileikaite): I. Fantasie (02:57)
02. AkMi Duo – Viola Sonata Op. 11, No. 4 (Arr. for Saxophone and Piano by Valentine Michaud & Akvile Sileikaite): II. Thema mit Variationen (03:56)
03. AkMi Duo – Viola Sonata Op. 11, No. 4 (Arr. for Saxophone and Piano by Valentine Michaud & Akvile Sileikaite): III. Finale (mit Variationen) (10:10)
04. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: I. Two-Part Invention (04:21)
05. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: II. La follia nuova: A lament for George Cacioppo (08:10)
06. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: III. Scherzo “Will o’ the Wisp” (01:54)
07. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: IV. Recitative and Dance (04:17)
08. AkMi Duo – Hot-Sonate: 1st Movement (04:15)
09. AkMi Duo – Hot-Sonate: 2nd Movement (01:50)
10. AkMi Duo – Hot-Sonate: 3rd Movement (04:09)
11. AkMi Duo – Hot-Sonate: 4th Movement (04:34)
12. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: I. Allegro (03:22)
13. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: II. Lento (03:25)
14. AkMi Duo – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: III. Allegro moderato (04:20)

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