Entre Orient & Occident Virgil Boutellis-Taft & Guillaume Vincent

• Komitas (1869-1935):
• 1 Komitas: Gdung 04:18
• Ernest Chausson (1855-1899):
• 2 Chausson: Poème, Op. 25 16:26
• Leos Janacek (1854-1928): Violin Sonata in A Flat Minor, JW VII/7:
• 3 Janáček: Violin Sonata in A Flat Minor, JW VII/7: I. Con moto 05:05
• 4 Janáček: Violin Sonata in A Flat Minor, JW VII/7: II. Ballada 04:48
• 5 Janáček: Violin Sonata in A Flat Minor, JW VII/7: III. Allegretto 02:52
• 6 Janáček: Violin Sonata in A Flat Minor, JW VII/7: IV. Adagio 04:59
• André Hossein (1905-1983):
• 7 Hossein: Caravane (Arr. for Violin & Piano by Tara Kamangar) 03:12
• Tara Kamangar (b.1982):
• 8 Kamangar: Once There Was and Once There Wasn't (Dedicated to Virgil Boutellis-Taft) 03:12
• Philippe Hersant (b.1948): Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin:
• 9 Hersant: Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin: 1er chant 02:16
• 10 Hersant: Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin: 2ème chant 01:04
• 11 Hersant: Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin: 3ème chant 01:29
• 12 Hersant: Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin: 4ème chant 02:46
• 13 Hersant: Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin: 5ème chant 01:08
• 14 Hersant: Chants du Sud, Six Short Pieces for Solo Violin: 6ème chant 04:01
• 15 Bartók: Six danses roumaines, Sz. 56: I. Joc cu bata (Allegro moderato) 01:19
• 16 Bartók: Six danses roumaines, Sz. 56: II. Braul (Allegro) 00:28
• 17 Bartók: Six danses roumaines, Sz. 56: III. Pê-loc (Andante) 01:16
• 18 Bartók: Six danses roumaines, Sz. 56: IV. Buciumeana (Moderato) 01:39
• 19 Bartók: Six danses roumaines, Sz. 56: V. Poarga romaneasca (Allegro) 00:28
• 20 Bartók: Six danses roumaines, Sz. 56: VI. Maruntel (Allegro) 00:59
• Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Violon Sonata in G Minor, L. 148:
• 21 Debussy: Violon Sonata in G Minor, L. 148: I. Allegro vivo 04:59
• 22 Debussy: Violon Sonata in G Minor, L. 148: II. Intermède 04:30
• 23 Debussy: Violon Sonata in G Minor, L. 148: III. Finale 04:44
• Total Runtime 01:17:58

Info for Entre Orient & Occident

French violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft returns to Carnegie Hall to present his new album Entre Occident et Orient (Evidence Classics/Harmonia Mundi) with the French pianist Guillaume Vincent. Composer Paul Cantelon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Other Boleyn Girl, New York I Love You…) joins Virgil to premiere his new work, dedicated to the violinist.

Western music has roots that reach far deeper than its geographical boundaries thanks to the gradual accumulation of oral folk traditions. Formal music, that is to say liturgical music or music of the court, bears the imprint of Byzantine traditions as well as those stemming from Arabic, Turkish and Persian influences. All of these factors contributed to the progressive development of a common European musical language, which explores and exploits the resources of polyphony, while the Eastern tradition deploys those of monophony and rhythm.

Attraction for the East is an essential leitmotiv throughout the history of Europe, from its ties to Byzantium as well as to Islam, particularly during the Crusades, down to the Ottoman Empire and its vassal states and finally through to the opening of direct trade routes between Europe and the Far East.

In the Baroque and Classical period, “yearning for the East” manifested itself in expressions of exoticism, or a taste for the bizarre, the fantastical and the picturesque that infused all artistic domains, especially those of literature and the arts (and music for example Les Paladins, Les Indes galantes...). is desire developed even further during the Romantic period when the connections between Europe and the Far East expanded rapidly. …

Virgil Boutellis-Taft, violin Guillaume Vincent, piano

Virgil Boutellis-Taft
Hailed by critics as an “outstanding violinist”, “of fiery temperament”, with “intense, brilliant, sumptuous sound” and “impressive virtuosity”, Virgil Boutellis-Taft performs as soloist and chamber musician in major international concert halls: Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Benaroya Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Cammilleri Hall, Salle Gaveau, the Phillips Collection, Tel Aviv Opera …, and with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Springfield Symphony, the Israel Chamber Orchestra Emeritus, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, the Sinfonia Varsovia.

Virgil is invited to play in major international festivals including Bowdoin (USA), La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée, The Music Moments of La Baule, The Violins de Légende, Clairvaux (France), Eilat and Red Sea-Valery Gergiev (Israel), Valdres (Norway), Prussia Cove (England). In chamber music, he shares the stage, with artists such as harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, pianists JuYoung Park, Guillaume Vincent, Lise de la Salle, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Albert Cano Smit, Suzana Bartal, Cathy Krier, guitarist Thibaut Garcia, cellists Anne Gastinel and Camille Thomas … He also shared the stage in New York, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco with film composer and pianist Paul Cantelon, composer Tara Kamangar and Drew Heminger who all three have dedicated works to him. His album “Between East and West”, recorded in 2016 for Evidence Classics/Harmonia Mundi, has been hailed by critics, in particular for its “incandescent intensity”.

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