Kopatchinskaja, Patricia (violin) - Rapsodia

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Emilia Kopatchinskaja VIOLIN & VIOLA
Viktor Kopatchinsky CIMBALOM
Martin Gjakonovski DOUBLE BASS
Mihaela Ursuleasa PIANO

- Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born in Moldova) was raised in a family of musicians and this new project is the best piece of evidence!
- "Rapsodia" was the name of the former band of Victor Kopatchinsky who is definitely one of the stars of the cimbalom! Patricia wrote in the long and very personal text of the inside notes: "He grew up to become the most famous cimbalom virtuoso in the former Soviet Union, and he called his ensemble 'Rapsodia'. [...] My parents were constantly travelling with their ensemble, playing 300 concerts every year: in the Kremlin for the government and the generals, in factories and prisons, in Siberia, North Africa, and Latin America."

- With her father (cymbalum), mother (violin) and friends such as Mihaela Ursuleasa she performs works rooted in Eastern Europe: traditional Moldovan music but also pieces such as Ravel's Tzigane, that have a Gypsic inspiration.

- This is a very lively, dynamic, but also deeply moving project. All the works performed here are played in a way you never heard before.