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When Bach was an Irishman and Mozart a Gypsy boy (2002)

by Antoni O' Breskey

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Mozart in the Scottish fields 03:58
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Beethoven irrintzi in the Appalachian mountains 02:58
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When Mozart was a gypsy boy 05:46
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Bach Irish dixie 03:06
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Sídh beag agus sídh mór variations 02:28
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Bach’s stormy fuga…with his secret lover to Mexico 04:11
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Chopin from Varsavia to Granada 03:17
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When Bach was an Irishman 03:40
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Antoni O’ Breskey - piano, dulcimer, vocals
Davide Viterbo - cello
Alí Tajbakhsh - zarb

A Bach’s fugue that turns into an Irish dixie, a Mozart’s minuet in the Scottish valleys, a Chopin’s studio from Warsaw to Granada becoming a Flamenco Jondo Chant, Beethoven 9th in the Appalachian Mountains, Mozart’s Turkish March brought back to Istanbul ending unexpectedly in a polka in the kerry style…

This is the new CD of Antoni O’ Breskey, a sophisticated and ironical musical journey where classical music meets its roots in the traditional music of the world, particularly Irish and the Gipsy music, through surprisingly original re-elaborated versions of classical pieces mixed with Jazz, Irish, Flamenco and Arabian sounds.


“In this album, classical music dances a waltz and a jig with influences from Irish trad. Antoni O’ Breskey is a true musical visionary, one who not only sees through cultural barriers, he plows through them. For this composer, musical categories of genre, century and nation bear no restriction or limitation for his creativity—he brings all eras and cultures together in one musical space.
O’Breskey’s musical crossovers have an ethical imperative as well. He seeks to mesh the majority with the minority, the present with the past, and the vocal with the silenced, so as to “deflate the ethnocentrism of classical Western music.
For Antoni O’Breskey, musical cultures are not defined by borders, but by historical roots that reach deeply across all areas of the globe.”

Coleen Taylor
THE IRISH ECHO, NEW YORK
Full article here: www.irishecho.com/2016/02/obreskey-is-true-musical-visionary/


© 2019 Antoni O’Breskey

Nomadic Piano Project

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released July 30, 2019

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“O’Breskey’s musical crossovers have an ethical imperative. He seeks to mesh the majority with the minority, the present with the past, and the vocal with the silenced, so as to “deflate the ethnocentrism of classical Western music.” For this musician, musical cultures are not defined by borders, but by historical roots that reach deeply across all areas of the globe.

THE IRISH ECHO, BOSTON ... more

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