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Bester Quartet on CD realized by SR P2
This year The Swedish Public Radio SRP2 decided to promote ambitous music projects and produced CD compilation of jazz, classical and folk recordings realized by SPR2 in last few years.
We have a great pleasure to announce that on this compilation you can find Jaroslaw Bester’s work titled “The migrations of the soul” that is performed by Bester Quartet.
This piece was recoded during our last concert in Stockholm (9th of March,2008).
On this CD, apart from our piece, you can also find Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester or Bobo Stenson Trio.
Exclusive Sound
"BESTER & DAFO – CHAMBER SOUND" - is the name of a new project bringing together the two world-renowned quartets who use some unparalleled sounds in their work.
In this particular example, we are confronted with an extraordinary union of the two seemingly independent soundworlds in which improvised music and classical music never cease to inspire and complete each other – thus creating a mixture in the spirit of the several-centuries-old tradition of the East European music that is expressive and full of playing passion.
New CD - "Remembrance"
Tzadik New York 2007, TZ 8116
[1] Recollections of the Past
[2] The Migration of Souls
[3] Memento Mori
Mp3[4] The Tree of Life
[5] Klezmer Rhapsody
[6] The Prayer
[7] Awaiting
[8] The Colours of the Heavens
[9] A Devilish Tale
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New review by Thom Jurek (allmusic.com)
"Balan: Book of Angels, Vol. 5"
The first striking thing about the Cracow Klezmer Band's reading of John Zorn's tunes from his Book of Angels, on Balan, is the sound -- crystalline, full of separation and space. The next is Jaroslaw Bester's bayan -- hunted, witchy, signaling from some far-off place to Oleg Dyyak's hand drums, Wojciech Front's double bass, and then the small army of strings provided by the band's own violinist, Jaroslaw Tyrala, and the DAFO String Quartet.
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Note
From January 2007 on, will stop functioning and a new band named
BESTER QUARTET
will be active instead.
Balan: Book of Angels Vol.5
Tzadik New York 2006, TZ 7358
[1] Zuriel 4:18
Mp3[2] Suria 7:56
Mp3[3] Dirael 6:07
[4] Kadosh 2:43
[5] Haniel 5:02
Mp3[6] Jehoel 5:17
[7] Asbeel 5:05
[8] Aniel 3:48
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Eyal Hareuveni (AllAboutJazz.com)
"Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"
... The release of the Polish Cracow Klezmer Band's fourth disc on Tzadik, are they interpreted in the Old World Eastern European klezmer form. Many Masada interpretations have referenced, abstracted, or suggested new readings of this genre which is so identified with Jewish music.
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