Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917251128
Catalog number: CC 72511
Releasedate: 13-09-11
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917251128
Releasedate: 13-09-11
Wulfin Lieske about the new cd "Bottom's Dream": "We’re spanning a wide arc from classical to now. After “Evocación”, where we kept to the concept of historically informed performance of Romantic music by Albéniz, in “bottom’s dream” we now play contemporary music that isn’t avant-garde. If you like, it’s pop music at its best. We want to be authentic and transport a sense of life but as art at its highest level.
- The duo was rewarded with a Gramophone Editor's Choice for this breathtaking and ground-breaking 2-cd “Evocación”
- Lieske has worked with conductors such as Gidon Kremer, Astor Piazzolla, Juan José Mosalini and has accompanied the Hilliard Ensemble
- Wulfin Lieske was the first ever artist to record a CD using an instrument created by the legendary luthier Antonio de Torres
- This new cd is not avantgarde but very interesting for a large audience!
Lieske Spindler Guitars was founded in 2009. For the 150th birthday of Isaac Albéniz, the duo recorded the CD “Evocación” for Challenge Records with transcriptions of his piano works (CC72374). The guitarists had two legendary instruments by Antonio de Torres at their disposal for this recording. The Duo was rewarded with a Gramophone Editor's Choice for this breathtaking and ground-breaking 2-cd.
"Lieske and Spindler’s interpretations can be expansively orchestral in conception – try the opening “Evocación” from Iberia, the “Bajo la palmera” and “Oriental” from Cantos de España – or intimately lyrical ...and expressive, as in the barcarolle Mallorca...."
Spindler about the new, second album " Bottom's Dream":
"This isn’t about classical guitars, but about guitars per se. We chose the composers for this CD because Mingus and Piazzolla also orbited between several stylistic worlds. Mingus had a passion for Debussy, Ravel and Richard Strauss, while Piazzolla started his career in utter panic in case tango might be associated with brothel music. This balancing on the borderline was extremely fruitful for both of them. Nobody today would question how important these artists are."
"Lieske and Spindler’s interpretations can be expansively orchestral in conception – try the opening “Evocación” from Iberia, the “Bajo la palmera” and “Oriental” from Cantos de España – or intimately lyrical ...and expressive, as in the barcarolle Mallorca...."
Spindler about the new, second album " Bottom's Dream":
"This isn’t about classical guitars, but about guitars per se. We chose the composers for this CD because Mingus and Piazzolla also orbited between several stylistic worlds. Mingus had a passion for Debussy, Ravel and Richard Strauss, while Piazzolla started his career in utter panic in case tango might be associated with brothel music. This balancing on the borderline was extremely fruitful for both of them. Nobody today would question how important these artists are."