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East Meets East is a collaborative studio album released through EMI Classics in 2003 by violinist Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke band (Jerzy Bawoł on accordion, Tomasz Kukurba on viola and Tomasz Lato on double bass), surrounded by several guest artists of international reputation such as Natacha Atlas, Mo Foster, and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Nigel Kennedy · The Kroke Band - Lullaby for Kamila (England/Poland)
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In her home country of England, Alison Balsom is one of the most popular classical artists and has also established herself as a successful trumpet virtuoso in this country. She has won numerous awards such as the Classic FM Listeners' Choice and Gramophone Awards, the Classical Brit Awards and the ECHO Klassik.
Georg Philipp Telemann was the most famous composer in Germany in his day! He transformed everything possible and impossible into music, for example the ebb and flow of the tide: the water rushes through your ears! Or he lets a thunderstorm roar through the orchestra. It is very emotional when Telemann dedicates funeral music to a deceased canary. After all, it was his own bird.
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A pity that Telemann did not listen to music from the Caucasus.
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The seven-strong band from Tbilisi are adept purveyors of the famous polyphonic singing tradition of Georgia, but they are also flying the flag for the lesser known instrumental folk styles of the region, bringing in dances and songs from around the Caucasus, expertly played on the emblematic Georgian instrument, the three-string panduri, accordion, frame-drum and given an extra shot of modern energy with the addition of keyboards, bass guitar and drums.
The band came together in 2011 and were playing on the streets of Tbilisi when they were heard by music producer Chabuki Amiranashvili who took them into the studio.
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Bani - Gandagana (Georgia)