Download POSSESSED by BALANESCU QUARTET free. #1 rated music site. 6.5 Million songs. Get lyrics ♫ music videos for your iPhone®. Balanescu Quartet. Maria T is a cycle of pieces based on the songs of Maria Tanase, a popular Romanian singer of the 1940s and '50s whose music Balanescu reinterprets for his own ensemble, the Balanescu String Quartet, and percussionist Steve Arguelles. There are some aspects of this work that may seem calculated to appeal to a crossover audience: the music is.
Balanescu Quartet Biography Since its formation in 1987, the Balanescu Quartet has acquired a reputation as one of the leading contemporary music groups in the world today. Its guiding force has been the Romanian virtuoso violinist, and composer Alexander Balanescu, who has lead the quartet across musical frontiers into new unchartered territory. This search to push the limits of the string quartet, has revealed an ensemble with a sensibility nearer to a band rather than a classical group, and reflects Balanescu's passionate belief in the intercommunication and fluidity between different musical fields.
From its roots as collaborators with composers such as Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars, through projects with Lounge Lizard John Lurie, Jack de Johnette, Ornette Coleman, David Byrne, the Pet Shop Boys, Spiritualized, Kate Bush and Kraftwerk, they have developed their own unique writing and performing style setting them apart from any other string quartet. Their live performances are notable for their sheer energy and dynamism. They have played in locations as wildly contrasting as London's South Bank Centre and New York's Knitting Factory - they even opened to 10,000 Pet Shop Boys fans at Wembley Arena, and are constantly looking for venues in which to present their music in a new context.
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Arranged By, Producer - Clare Connors (tracks: 1 to 5, 9) Cello - Caroline Dale Engineer Assistant At Air - Andy Strange Engineer Assistant At Orinoco - Chris Potter Engineer Location Recording - Tony Falkner Executive Producer, Engineer, Mixed By - Michael J. Dutton. Mastered By - Peter Mew Performer - Balanescu Quartet, The Viola - Bill Hawkes Violin - Alexander Balanescu, Clare Connors Written-By - Alexander Balanescu (tracks: 6 to 8), David Byrne (tracks: 9), Schultz.
(tracks: 2 to 5), Schneider. (tracks: 1, 3), Bartoff. (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5), Hutter. (tracks: 1 to 5) Notes: Recorded at Air and Orinoco Studios, London. Location recording at St. Augustine's Church, Kilburn. Mixed at Orinoco Studios.
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Mastered at Abbey Road.