Kinan Azmeh: Uneven Sky

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Among his own works, Suite for Improvisor (2008) readily confirms his maxim that the best notated music sounds spontaneous whereas the best improvised music sounds structured…Turning to the music... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2019 More…

Release Date: 5th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: DGCD21114
Label: Dreyer Gaido
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Opus Klassik Awards

2019

Winner - Concerto (clarinet)

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Azmeh: Suite for Improvisor & Orchestra

Work length21:34

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$5.20

Kinan Azmeh (clarinet), Bodek Janke (percussion), Hogir Göregen (percussion)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manuel Nawri
Recorded: 15-16 February 2017 / 2-4 May 2018
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Dahlem, Germany

I. Love on 139th Street in D

Track length6:17

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II. November 22nd

Track length9:35

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III. Wedding

Track length5:42

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Azmeh: Ibn Arabi Suite

Work length19:25

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Kinan Azmeh (clarinet), Dima Orsho (voice), David Adorján (cello)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manuel Nawri
Recorded: 15-16 February 2017 / 2-4 May 2018
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Dahlem, Germany

I. Prelude

Track length5:47

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II. Recitation

Track length6:08

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III. Postlude

Track length7:30

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Azmeh: The Fence, the Rooftop, and the Distant Sea

Work length17:26

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$6.50

Kinan Azmeh (clarinet), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Recorded: 15-16 February 2017 / 2-4 May 2018
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Dahlem, Germany

I. Prologue

Track length2:50

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II. Ammonite

Track length2:49

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III. Monologue

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IV. Dance

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V. Epilogue

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Roustom: Clarinet Concerto, 'Adrift on the Wine-Dark Sea'

Work length30:14

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Kinan Azmeh (clarinet)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manuel Nawri

Jabri: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

Work length19:39

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Kinan Azmeh (clarinet)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manuel Nawri

Succari: Suite for Clarinet & Orchestra 'Paroles'

Work length28:49

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Kinan Azmeh (clarinet)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manuel Nawri
Recorded: 15-16 February 2017 / 2-4 May 2018
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Dahlem, Germany

I. Parole des abimes au soleil

Track length11:34

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$3.85

II. Parole de l'arbre au vent

Track length10:53

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III. Parole du matin à la rose

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Interview, Kinan Azmeh on Uneven Sky

4th April 2019

Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh talks to David about his new double album showcasing his own compositions and those of three other composers from his native country.

This long-expected new double CD presents Kinan Azmeh as composer, soloist and outstanding improviser together with the Grammy-awarded Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Manuel Nawri.

One CD presents Kinan as interpreter of his own music while the second CD presents three clarinet concertos that were written for him by the Syrian composers Kareem Roustom, Zaid Jabri and Dia Succari.

Finally it presents the most recent of Azmeh’s works, The Fence, the Rooftop and the Distant Sea, a duo for clarinet and cello written for himself and Yo-Yo Ma, commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and first performed there in January 2017. The resulting 2-CD set is an explosion of sound which lifts you off your seat in wonder at the expertise and energy of his performance. Incredible!

Hailed as a “Virtuoso” and “Intensely soulful” by the New York Times, “Spellbinding” and “Brilliant” by the New Yorker, and “Incredibly rich sound” by the CBC, his utterly distinctive sound across different musical genres has gained him international recognition as a clarinettist and composer.

Kinan Azmeh has been touring the world as soloist, composer and improviser and has appeared at the Opera Bastille, Paris; Tchaikovsky Grand Hall, Moscow; Carnegie Hall and the UN’s general assembly, New York; the Royal Albert Hall, London and the Damascus opera house for its opening concert in his native Syria. He has appeared as a soloist with many of the world’s best orchestras and has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Marcel Khalife, Aynur, Daniel Barenboim, John McLaughlin and Jivan Gasparian.

He serves as artistic director of the Damascus Festival Chamber Players, a pan-Arab ensemble dedicated to contemporary music form the Arab world. He is also a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble with whom he was awarded a Grammy in 2017. Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville portrayed Kinan in his latest documentary, Music of Strangers.

“Uneven Sky is about home, the multitudes of homes, and it was made with lots of optimism and love. Syria may not be on the cover of this album but it is present in every detail of the music, and certainly in my heart.” - Kinan Azmeh

“Home is ever-present and elusive. There and here. Then and now. Lost and found. Listening to this album, we find both the search for home and home itself.” - Ara Guzelimian

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July 2019

Among his own works, Suite for Improvisor (2008) readily confirms his maxim that the best notated music sounds spontaneous whereas the best improvised music sounds structured…Turning to the music by other composers and both concertos adumbrate powerful emotional responses…Ara Guzelimian’s notes provide a succinct basis for evaluating Syria’s recent contribution to Western classical music.

Kinan Azmeh: Uneven Sky

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