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| Catch-Pop String-Strong - CPSS |
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The ability to build new forms from miscellaneous components, using wit and virtuosity as mortar, is a remarkable skill, a skill which Jelena Popržan and Rina Kaçinari have honed to perfection: one is a Serbian, the other a Kosovo Albanian, and together the play Bach, traditional music from the Balkans or the Scottish highlands, pop songs, as well as own compositions resounding with a multitude of different influences, and beautifully so. Equipped with a cello, a viola, their voices and as much respect as necessary they build bridges between different cultures, across centuries and musical traditions, and they do it all with a light-footedness and natural ease that is simply amazing.
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Jelena Popržan, viola, voice
Rina Kaçinari, cello, voice
with a text by Julya Rabinowich |
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| Photo: copyright Maria Frodl |
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| Catch-Pop String-Strong - Karussell |
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Music: Rina Kaçinari (Cello & Composition), Jelena Popržan (Viola)
Video: Manuel Lehner, Johannes Hochmayer, Lukas Drexler, Raphael Szavai
www.catchpopstringstrong.com |
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