Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic - À Deux (2009) скачать бесплатно

They attack their instruments with such brio and verve that they fill a chamber jazz formula with raw emotion and rhythmic pulse.
The Financial Times (UK)


When Vienna's radio.string.quartet played in London last year, Croatian cellist Asja Valcic's playing was the powerhouse of the band, with its jazz-bassist's forward-leaning drive and percussive accents. Those qualities surface again on some attractive and songlike originals by the accordion and bandoneon-player Klaus Paier. For a performer raised on chamber music, Valcic has taken to jazz with an assertive vigour that is still quite rare among classical converts, and Paier unblinkingly switches between swirling cafe-waltzes and a thundering energy like Joe Zawinul's at the organ. Valcic's busy, pulsating rhythms and hand-drum effects alternate with delicate lyricism on Tango Loco, and her pizzicato walks swap with the plunging Mahavishnu-like countermelody in the swinging title track. Some of the pieces are breezy dances (Cici, Valsa Francaise) some are balletic tangos, some have a church-organ ruminativeness (Some Days, Sentiment Pour le Beau) and some a clamorous Balkan energy. For jazzers, improvisation may be a little hampered by this music's tight arrangements and familiar song-forms, but it's a lovely combination of instruments, and virtuosically executed.
John Fordham in The Guardian, 23 January 2009

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