Kolsimcha - Tevye

Release: 13th February 2017
Product: Audio CD / Digipack
Number of disc: 1
Label: VOJ
Total Playing Time: min

Album Tracklist
01. Dance Suite, 02. Dance Suite Encore, 03. Slow Melody, 04. Tevye, 05. Games, 06. Pas De Trois, 07. Taenzel, 08. Ukraine, 09. Mingling, 10. Finale, 11. Pas De Deux, 12. Wedding, 13. Nigun, 14. The Village, 15. The End

Musician:
Michael Heitzler - Clarinet, Simon Girard - Trombone, Olivier Truan - Piano, Thomas Lähns - Bass, Christoph Staudenmann - Drums

Special guests:
Domenico Melchiorre - Timpani, Adrian Romaniuc - Mallets and Percussion, David Gurtner - Percussion, Szilard Buti - Percussion, Slava Cernavca - Clarinet (download versions)

Album Info:
The composer and pianist Olivier Truan presents his latest work with the album -Tevye-.

He composed the music for Richard Wherlock's story ballet "Tewje", which was recorded by Kolsimcha and the Macedonian Orchestra.

Excerpt from the program: Tevye has to watch as his family falls apart and his home is taken away from him. And yet he never loses his trust in God and his truly unshakable sense of humor. In this story, which became popular through the musical success “The Fiddler on the Roof” (“Anatevka”), the lost world of the Stetl is memorialized. No nostalgic glorification, no embellished idyll obscures the view of the bitter reality of life in Eastern Jewry and the catastrophes that loom looming on the horizon at the beginning of the 20th century: revolutions, pogroms, expulsions.

Richard Wherlock takes up the material about Sholem Aleichem's active hero from his classic of Yiddish literature and retells his story through dance. Joy, suffering and (love)sickness find their expression in it, as does the theme of tradition, the passing on of beliefs, customs and customs, which again and again - in every place and at every historical time - also encourages people to break down traditional conventions caused.

Wherlock's contemporary dance style combines with the lively and catchy music of Olivier Truan, who wrote a commissioned composition for the Basel chief choreographer's new ballet. Truan composes fascinating world music characterized by stylistic openness, which combines Jewish musical traditions, southern European folklore with jazz improvisations and borrowings from Western classical music to form a “contemporary klezmer”. Richard Wherlock's new ballet, together with this rousing music, promises a beguiling rush of dance virtuosity and exuberant joy of playing.