Journey East Nemanja Radulovic

• 1 Hungarian Dance No. 1 In G Minor 03:12
• 2 Songs My Mother Taught Me 03:18
• 3 Danse russe (Moderato) 04:21
• 4 Sabre Dance 02:56
• 5 Vatra suze 03:17
• 6 Pašona kolo 02:43
• 7 Nocturne 03:39
• 8 Romance 04:17
• 9 March (Arranged By Yvan Cassar) 01:35
• 10 Theme 03:50
• 11 Niška Banja 02:21
• 12 Main Theme 04:19
• 13 Ovo je muški svet 04:20
• 14 Csárdás 04:45
• 15 Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce 05:37
• Total Runtime 54:30

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Nemanja Radulović’s life has been an incredible jour- ney – geographically, physically and emotionally. Growing up in Serbia, he began playing the violin at the age of seven. As the clouds of civil war gathered in the 1990s, the child prodigy took part in competitions all over Europe. At 14, he moved to Paris to continue his musical education. Today, he is in demand at concert halls all over the world. But his heart remains in the Balkans, and the music that first inspired him – tradi- tional and classical – still courses through his veins.

For Carnets de voyage, his international debut album on Deutsche Grammophon, Nemanja retraces those steps on a musical voyage that mirrors his life – only in reverse. This new adventure is realized through an inspiring collaboration with the award-winning French producer Yvan Cassar, a man whose repertoire and influence spread far beyond traditional classical music into world music, electronica and pop. Accompanied by musicians from Nemanja’s two regular ensembles, Les Trilles du Diable and Double Sens, plus his long-term musical partner, pianist Laure Favre-Kahn, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Michail Jurowski, they take us on a journey through classical melodies, traditional tunes and folk songs that typify the fiery but fun-loving spirit of the Balkans.

There are tunes from Nemanja’s native Serbia and from old Bohemia, from Hungary and Romania, Mace- donia, Armenia and Russia: some familiar, some less so, but all of them close to his heart. Throughout them all, there is one unifying theme – the music’s emotional power.

For Nemanja, this album is also an intensely per- sonal journey into his own past. It is dedicated to his late mother, Liliana, a successful doctor who devoted herself to supporting his musical studies, only to be tragically lost to cancer two years ago. “She is my inspiration and my muse,” says Nemanja. “Without her I could not have made this record. With- out her I would not be here at all.”

Nemanja Radulovic, violin
Les Trilles du Diable
Double Sens
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Michail Jurowski, conductor

Nemanja Radulovic
Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulović champions the power of music to bring people together with his unique energy and candour, thrilling virtuosity, depth of expression, and adventurous programming. His hotly-anticipated, ‘magical’ (Barry Creasy, musicOMH) BBC Proms debut in 2019 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits featured a Barber Violin Concerto whose ‘lyric delicacy and last-movement super-virtuosity were caught to near perfection’ (The Times).

Winner of the 2015 Echo Klassik Award for Newcomer of the Year, Radulović is an artist who seeks to broaden the boundaries of classical music and has amassed a legion of loyal fans around the world who have enjoyed his performances with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Munich Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony in Tokyo, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orquesta Nacional de España, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin, Orchestra della Toscana, Tampere Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Copenhagen Phil, Geneva Camerata, Queensland Symphony, Macao Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, and the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa.

Signed as an exclusive recording artist to Warner Classics in 2021, Radulović’s recent and forthcoming highlights include an extensive European tour with the Russian State Academic Symphony and Andrey Boreyko; sold-out performances with his ensemble Double Sens at such celebrated festivals as the Folle Journée de Nantes and the Chorégies d’Orange; debut engagements with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Dusseldorf Symphony, RTE National Symphony in Dublin, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg; the season opening of the Jeunesse Musicale series at the Vienna Konzerthaus; a play/direct performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Munich Chamber Orchestra (resulting in an immediate re-invitation and on-going relationship with the ensemble); and a special collaboration with clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, and pianist Laure Favre-Kahn, performing to audiences at festivals across Germany, Switzerland and France.

Radulović has an equal passion for the intimacy of chamber music, and is an increasingly active recitalist on the international circuit. He has performed at such notable venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, both the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Athens Megaron, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and the Melbourne Recital Centre in Australia. His many recital partners include Marielle Nordmann, Laure Favre-Kahn, and Susan Manoff, the latter with whom he has also recorded a disc of Beethoven Sonatas released on the Decca/Universal Music label.

Radulović also regularly undertakes a play/direct role with his infectious, high-energy ensemble The Devil’s Trills – noted for their ‘immense purity, artistic force, passion, intimacy, and exquisite dynamic choices, leaving the audience in complete astonishment’ (Johannes Seifert, Augsburger Allgemeine) – and his chamber orchestra, Double Sens, which was recently celebrated for their recordings of Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as The 5 Seasons, a piece that combines Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with a new composition, Spring in Japan, by Aleksandar Sedlar and dedicated to the Japanese tsunami victims in 2011. Their other recent recordings include Paganini Fantasy (2013), Journey East (2014), BACH (2016), Tchaikovsky (2017), and most recently Baïka (2018).

Radulović’s recognition for his work in classical music includes International Revelation of the Year by the Victoires de la musique classique in 2005, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Arts in Niš, Serbia, and an ELLE Style Award for Musician of the Year in 2015. He is the winner of several international violin competitions, such as Joseph Joachim in Hanover, George Enescu in Bucharest, and Stradivarius in Cremona.

Born in Serbia in 1985, Nemanja Radulović studied at the Faculty of Arts and Music in Belgrade, the Saarlandes Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Saarbrücken, the Stauffer Academy in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo, and the world-renowned Conservatoire de Paris with Patrice Fontanarosa.

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