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Sarah Nemtanu: Gypsic

Release Date: 5th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: V5235
Label: Naive
Length: 62 minutes

Monti, V: Csárdás

Work length5:33

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales

Ravel: Tzigane

Work length10:14

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales, Romain Deschamps

Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Fauré

Work length3:42

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales

Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25

Work length25:40

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales, Romain Deschamps

I. Moderato malinconico

Track length8:45

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II. Andante sostenuto e misterioso

Track length8:55

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III. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo

Track length8:00

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Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

Work length11:03

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales

Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77: II. Blues. Moderato

Work length3:33

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales

Boulanger, G: Avant de Mourir

Work length3:12

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Sarah Nemtanu, Chilly Gonzales

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‘Gypsic’ is the very first recording of violinist Sarah Nemtanu who brings a subtle touch of Balkanese extravagance to classical masterpieces from Ravel and Enesco.

Sarah Nemtanu is one of today’s leading violinists and her career to date commands respect, including being first violin solo with the Orchestre National de France and having performed with many of the most renowned orchestras in the world. For this ambitious recording, Romanian-born Sarah Nemtanu chose to perform pieces from the classical repertoire in arrangements bringing out their Balkan fibre. On this challenging recording Sarah Nemtanu teams up with the influential virtuoso pianist, electro megalomaniac and all-round entertainer Chilly Gonzales who brings his experience in piano improvisations and familiarity with electronic music to arrange classical masterpieces from Ravel and Enesco among others.

This is a very ‘gypsic’ recording in between music and rhythmic, a surprising mixture, impressive in its respect and precision, and delightful in its insubordination to form and genre. The biggest challenge on this album was undoubtedly to rework the Blues from Maurice Ravel’s Violin Sonata, inspired here by rhythmic ethio-jazz, a blend of jazz and the traditional music of Ethiopian azmari minstrels.

Artists

Sarah Nemtanu (violin), Chilly Gonzales (piano, organ farfisa, drum, percussion), Romain Descharmes (piano), Lyodoh Kaneko (solo), Guillaume Barli, Pierre Fouchenneret, Tiphaine Gaigne (first violins), Virginie Buscail, Young-Eun Koo, Alexandra Jouannie, Nathalie Crambes (second violins), Lise Berthaud, Delphine Tissot (violas), Christophe Morin, Jérôme Lefranc (cellos), Maria Chirokoliyska (double bass), Armand Amar (triangle) & Lurie Morar (cimbalom)

Aurélien Azan Zielinski

Sarah Nemtanu: Gypsic

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