Artist: Benjamin Schmid, Orchestra Musica Vitae
Title: Jazz Violin Concertos
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Gramola Records
Genre: Classical
Quality:  flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
Total Time: 01:03:54
Total Size: 1.17 gb

Tracklist

01. "Metropoles-Suite" - Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra: "Metropoles-Suite" - I - Insomnia
02. "Metropoles-Suite" - Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra: "Metropoles-Suite" - II - El Largo Adiós
03. "Metropoles-Suite" - Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra: "Metropoles-Suite" - III - À La Minute
04. "Metropoles-Suite" - Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra: "Metropoles-Suite" - IV - Avenida
05. "WINGS" - A Concert-piece for Solo Violin, String Orchestra and Rhythm Section: "WINGS" - I - Liberamente sempre
06. "WINGS" - A Concert-piece for Solo Violin, String Orchestra and Rhythm Section: "WINGS" - II - Lento
07. "WINGS" - A Concert-piece for Solo Violin, String Orchestra and Rhythm Section: "WINGS" - III - Liberamente
08. "WINGS" - A Concert-piece for Solo Violin, String Orchestra and Rhythm Section: "WINGS" - IV - Allegro assai. Solo Improvisations
09. "Three Songs for an Abandoned Angel": I - "Dauntless departure"
10. "Three Songs for an Abandoned Angel": II - "Soul’s Concealment"
11. "Three Songs for an Abandoned Angel": III - free solo Cadence
12. "Three Songs for an Abandoned Angel": IV - "Breakthrough"

“The complete violinist” Benjamin Schmid inspires both audiences and international critics in the field of jazz and improvisation. For his latest album “Jazz Violin Concertos” with the Swedish chamber orchestra Musica Vitae, Schmid presents jazz violin concertos written by Austrian composers. Friedrich Gulda’s Violin Concerto entitled “Wings” is conceived as a single large violin cadenza with orchestra, which lacks not only virtuoso but also groovy parts. Herbert Berger’s “Metropoles Suite” was adapted for violin by the composer for Benjamin Schmid; each of the movements “Insomnia”, “El largo adios”, “A la minute” and “Avenida” can be assigned to a metropolis. “Three Songs for an Abandonend Angel” by the Austrian jazz pianist and composer Sabina Hank was also written for Schmid.