CD Reviews Fine Music Magazine
This is the ninth recording from Israeli-born mandolinist Avi Avital. While he often performs the works of baroque composers he has also delved into other areas.
CD Reviews Fine Music Magazine Jazz posts
Dutch trumpeter Vloeimans and German cellist Brinkmann are paired for the first time on this collection. The two, both classically trained, have had diverse performance and recording careers.
The 2023 album Les Égarés has brought together for the first time the two established duos of kora player Sissoko and cellist Segal with saxophonist Parisien and piano accordionist Peirani.
Fine Music Magazine
Musicians Hayden Chisholm and Jonathan Crayford, both New Zealand born, are contemporaries whose diverse careers in the past 30 and 35 years respectively have played out largely in foreign lands.
South African-born Guy Buttery is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. While his principal instrument is guitar, he also plays mandolin, sitar and thumb piano.
After the Last Sky is a jazz/classical fusion of folk-like and luxurious melodies and is highly recommended. All pieces were composed or jointly composed by Brahem.
This duet album brings together Swedish pianist/composer Lyssarides and Greek bouzouki player Prokopiou. The pairing of a pianist with the player of an instrument from the plucked lute family has been a most successful formula in recent years. The late Chick Corea’s partnership with banjo player Bela Fleck in 2007 and that of Stefano Bollani with mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda in 2013 particularly come to mind.
