FEIDMAN,GIORA/RASTRELLI CELLO QUARTETT - Feidman Plays Beatles! (Sealed) (CD)

The first wave of Beatles music reached Giora Feidman in 1964, when he was in the USA. And his feeling told him the same, there was something special about these guys that would come out big. Of course, he could not have guessed, but it was an incredible force in her music and basically I was her fan from the beginning. Giora Feidman was then 28, John Lennon 24 and Paul McCartney 22 years old. I've always played a bit of you, but I've never been systematic. But actually it was a long time in the air that I would make a whole album with Beatles songs. To this extent, it now feels like a dream that has finally become reality. If you remember that the LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band before the phenomena such as Hair and Woodstock became the musical manifesto of a worldwide movement of young people for a world-wide coexistence instead of war, discrimination and exploitation, it can not be surprising that the creator of this album also the indefatigable Intercultural bridge builders Giora Feidman. Together with the Rastrelli Cello Quartet, Feidman now brings selected Lennon / McCartney compositions to the chamber music level, and this approach is by no means out of the air. As early as 1965, the Beatles themselves used a string quartet and only supplemented it with an acoustic guitar, which was played sparingly. That was in Yesterday, and this became known as the most-covered pop song of all time. With the listening experience of today one can however also very beautifully understand how the Beatles had their way from the simple beat chapel, of which there were then thousands, to the outstanding, innovative pop music ensemble first elaborated, explained Cellist And co-arranger Kira Kraftzoff. When they recorded 'Eleonor Rigby' in 1966, the strings were much too straightforward and hard to meet the empathic, melancholic lyrics of the song. And now Giora and we were still in the situation, without working the text. Everything that Paul McCartney has added to emotion in this song must now only be expressed through our instruments. And that is why we arranged the strings much softer than the Beatles with George Henry Martin. When it comes to making inwardness audible, there is no more gifted musician on the clarinet than Giora Feidman