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[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 18 November 2007
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French piano star Jean Yves Thibaudet is joined by young Chinese violinist Yue Deng for this album of intimate classical music for piano and violin by the celebrated jazz composer/arranger Claus Ogermann.
Grammy Award Winner Claus Ogermann is a musician of rare breadth and versatility who has worked with all the great song stylists including Frank Sinatra, Stan Getz, George Benson, Nelson Riddle, Astrid Gilberto, Michael Brecker and Antonio Carlos Jobin.
Well known for recent collaborations with Diana Krall (including the album The Look Of Love), Claus Ogermann has also written works performed by legendary pianists Bill Evans and Glenn Gould, and is the arranger of the classic recording of The Girl From Ipenema.
Classical style has always been important to Ogermann, and his compositions include concertos - both classical and jazz - a song cycle (premiered by Briggitte Fasbaender and an orchestral suite commissioned for the American Ballet Theatre.
Yue Deng is one of today's outstanding Chinese violinists, having trained in China and at New York's Juilliard School
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