NDR Bigband - Flow '2021

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       Kinan Azmeh is an outstanding soloist and composer of our time. Hailed as
“intensely soulful” and a “virtuoso” by The New York
Times and “spellbinding” by The New Yorker, Winner of Opus Klassik
award in 2019 clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international
recognition for what the CBC has called his “incredibly rich sound”
and his distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres.
Originally from Damascus, Syria, Kinan Azmeh brings his music to all corners of
the world as a soloist, composer and improviser. Notable appearances include the
Opera Bastille, Paris; Tchaikovsky Grand Hall, Moscow; Carnegie Hall and the UN
General Assembly, New York; the Royal Albert Hall, London; Teatro Colon, Buenos
Aires; Philharmonie, Berlin; the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center,
Washington DC; the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie; and in
his native Syria at the opening concert of the Damascus Opera House. He has
appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony
Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Duesseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the
West- Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syrian
Symphony Orchestra among others, and has shared the stage with such musical
luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, John McLaughlin,
Francois Rabbath Aynur and Jivan Gasparian. FLOW presents Kinan’s music
in fantastic arrangements of Wolf Kerschek, played by the legendary NDR Bigband.
The recording was one of the first studio recordings that took place after the
first lockdown in 2020, followed by two successful concerts in Hamburg’s
Elbphilharmonie.

Tracklist:
1 01. Kinan Azmeh - Clarinet Concerto (13:45)
1 02. Kinan Azmeh - The Canteen (08:48)
1 03. Kinan Azmeh - Little Red Riding Hood (07:26)
1 04. Kinan Azmeh - And We Are All Optimistic (09:41)
1 05. Kinan Azmeh - Daraa (07:13)
1 06. Kinan Azmeh - Jisreen (10:18)
1 07. Kinan Azmeh - Rituals (08:48)
1 08. Kinan Azmeh - Love on 139th Street in D (06:42)

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