Name: Renewal
Start: 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: deSingel

Admin

De Singel

Conductor

Julian Azkoul

Orchestra

United Strings of Europe

Singer

Ruby Hughes

Soprano

Violinist

Violin I

Renewal

Antwerp

Belgium

deSingel

Blauwe zaal

Public

Concert

Entr'acte

Night Of The Flying Horses

Lúa Descolorida

How Slow The Wind

Lament "When I Am Laid In Earth" From "Dido And Aeneas" Z 626 (Arr.: Leopold Stokowski)

String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor Op. 80  (arr. Azkoul)

Teja Boyidi

Approved

Renewal: Entr'acte Shaw, C. (+5 More)

Mendelssohn String Quartet in F Minor Op. 80: II. Allegro assai (arr. Azkoul)

The United Strings of Europe recorded a new arrangement of Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F Minor Op. 80 for the ensemble's second album 'Renewal' (released on BIS Records in January 2022)

Julian Azkoul, musical director and arranger
United Strings of Europe

Matthew Bennett, producer
Dave Rowell, engineer
Thomas Gimson, videography and editing
BIS Records
Recorded at St Silas Church, London in March 2021

United Strings of Europe perform Mendelssohn (arr. Azkoul)

United Strings of Europe presents reborn music by Mendelssohn during RE/BIRTH festival.

Thanks to composers who are masters of the art of arrangement, even centuries-old music can be reborn time and time again. A translation to new voices, a reworking in new sounds. United Strings of Europe, the string orchestra of violinist Julian Azkoul, gets its teeth into this reincarnated repertoire in its album Renewal. As part of our festival RE/BIRTH they also come and perform this music live: Azkoul even took on Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6; the famous conductor Leopold Stokowski did this for Dido’s lamentation from Purcell’s opera. With an evenly-spaced string line-up and soprano Ruby Hughes they create a new listening experience. The ensemble is not focused exclusively on rebirth, however, and also performs relatively recent creations by contemporary composers such as Caroline Shaw and Osvaldo Golijov.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble