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July 19, 2009

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/the_music_beat/2009/07/dmitri-shostakovich-paired-wit.html

Dmitri Shostakovich paired with Jimi Hendrix

By David Hendricks

Experience: Live from New York Jan Vogler, cello, and the Knights

Sony Music

When can the music of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich share the same program

with Jimi Hendrix? When cellist Jan Vogler and the 33-musician the Knights offer a live

concert in a cabaret setting in New York City's Greenwich Village. It's Shostakovich's

First Cello Concert one moment and Hendrix's "Machine Gun" the next.

The new CD, recorded live at Greenwich Village's Le Poisson Rouge by Sony Music,also features several waltzes from Shostakovich's Jazz Suites and the Russian composer's

film music for "The Gadfly." This is light music that sounds entirely appropriate in a club

setting, with the audience surrounding the small orchestra while enjoying drinks.

One interesting irony. Shostakovich, born in 1906, outlived Hendrix. Hendrix died in

London in 1970, while Shostakovich made it to 1975.

The orchestra, conducted by Eric Jacobsen, comes off sounding swell in the intimate

setting. Vogler plays with a sense of showmanship. The real hoot of the recording ishearing Hendrix performed by a chamber orchestra. It made for a nice evening in lower

Manhattan, and it's not a bad recording, either. It's another sign of the growing universalappeal of the music of Shostakovich.


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Brattleboro Reformer

July 11, 2009

http://www.reformer.com/ovation/ci_12791616

The lighter side of a musical grump

By FRANK BEHRENS

KEENE, N.H.

Jan Vogler -- This is new to me, so let me go through the liner notes. There is a cellistnamed Jan Vogler and he loves the cello concerti of Dmitri Shostakovich. There is in

New York City an ensemble called The Knights who believe that a large orchestra can

still sound more intimate because of the special relationship between the players. Whenhe wanted to record some Shostakovich, Vogler chose The Knights as his orchestra.

The location they chose was the old Village Gate, which was rebuilt and renamed LePoisson Rouge (The Red Fish). The concert they gave there before a large audience has

been captured on a Sony Classical CD with the title "Experience: live from New York"

(with "Jan Vogler and The Knights" written large on the cover).

Sticking to the nonconventional, they begin with two jazzy waltzes by Shostakovich and

follow it with the Concerto No.1 for Cello and Orchestra. A short piece by Lev Zhurbincomes next, followed by three more Shostakovich waltzes. Then to cap things off, they

perform Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun."

The whole disc is unusual in concept and in performance and will please many. I think

Shostakovich would have been one of them.


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