Blooming Michael Gees & Bella Adamova

• 1 Winter Refuses 05:45
• 2 ich Wittre Morgenluft 05:15
• 3 What the Living Do 06:09
• 4 Kogda usnet trevoga 05:18
• 5 Ve dne v noci vrkutala 06:42
• 6 Lucerito 03:15
• 7 The Spring Sun 03:47
• 8 Ja budu pet', zemnaja i cuzaja 07:39
• 9 Schon zucken strahlen 04:45
• 10 Quoi? nulle trahison 07:43
• 11 Music 05:53
• 12 Pust'… 06:03
• Total Runtime 01:08:14

Info for Blooming

There are some encounters in life about which one could say that they were simply destined to happen. The meeting of the two musicians in question is, without a doubt, one of them, because Michael Gees and Bella Adamova have a very rare talent: they are both exceptionally gifted improvisers. This is no quirk of a narcissistic piano virtuoso but rather the continuation of an old and venerable tradition. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was, to some measure, expected that a pianist could also perform something extemporaneously. Bella Adamova follows the same path. This is the basis from which the current CD with collaborative improvisations arose. Ten poems from different authors form the starting point for the musical expedition. The choices came completely from Bella Adamova. In their collaboration, Adamova and Gees have a vast stylistic range at their disposal which expands from folklore and classical to jazz and contemporary music. This includes a conceivably wide spectrum of musical resources, where one can find sprechgesang as well as arioso lines, and the piano can grow from a rustling cantabile to a hammered martellato.

Michael Gees, piano
Bella Adamova, vocals

Michael Gees
Pianist and composer Michael Gees won the Steinway competition in 1961 and made his concert debut at the age of ten. Whilst studying music in Salzburg, Wien, Detmold and Hannover, he devoted equal time to performing jazz, standard classical repertoire and composing. The first recordings of his work, released in the early 80s, led to a number of subsequent commissions. In 1989 he founded forum kunstvereint (“Art Unites”) to give scope for the development of childrens’ creativity. Since 2001 he has been the Artistic Director of the Consol Theater in Gelsenkirchen. M. Gees' repertory ranges from Scarlatti to contemporary music. He is a prolific recording artist and, since 1991, has become a regular on the touring circuit, both as an accompanist as well as a recitalist of innovative programmes. He appears regularly in the world's most significant venues. His long- standing collaboration with Christoph Prégardien includes several recordings; he has also released CDs of solo piano music, combining interpretations, extempores and his own compositions.

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