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Bach´n´Blues

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Sonatas by Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel
Passacaglia for Solo Violin by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Chaconne for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach

Iskandar Widjaja , violin
Anastassiya Dranchuk, piano

In the booklet that accompanies this CD, Iskandar Widjaja, born in 1986 in Berlin, describes the recording with these words:
„These two worlds, „Bach“ and „Blues“ are extremes meant to reflect my musical schizophrenia. Music full of childlike imagination and religious intensity. Or childlike intensity and religious imagination?“
Iskandar Widjaja has already performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Spain and the USA in such concert halls as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Karajan Konzertsaal of the UdK Berlin, the Opera di Brescia, the Gedung Kesenian Jakarta and the Tel Aviv Opera. He regularly appears as a soloist and concertmaster with the Berlin Chamber Soloists.
Work with Dora Schwarzberg, Christian Tetzlaff, Shlomo Mintz and Ida Haendel has given the young artist further impulses. He was celebrated like a pop star in Indonesia; he has already received lucrative advertising contracts there as a result of his unbelievable popularity. The artist plays a Franciscus Geissenhof violin from 1793.