A sneak peak at rehearsing our new project.... https://youtube/watch?v=fzzc3nvzeqY The trio’s latest project is called Alexander Scriabin’s Ragtime Band, and they will release a CD in 2015 to coincide with the centenary of the composer’s death. Here is the description. 1915: the world in turmoil. People everywhere have gone dancing mad. The transatlantic trade in musical styles continues unabated. In New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton’s tinkering with ragtime, blues and the music of South America signals the dawn of a new creation: jazz! In New York, Russian émigré Irving Berlin, founder of the Great American Songbook, is churning out hit after hit. In Paris, Debussy experiments with syncopation and jazz harmony, as cakewalk and tango fever sweep the French capital; In Moscow, April 27th sees the death of the great Russian piano-poet, mystic, synaesthesiac and monomaniac Alexander Scriabin. In this brand-new project the trio brings these musical strands together to create an amazing tapestry of music from this time: boogie-woogie, tango and choro rub shoulders with the eponymous rag, which gets the makeover to end all makeovers, and with interpretations of Scriabin’s miniatures – his billets-doux to eternity – seen through the prism of popular music of the time.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:43:18 +0000