Other Regina's albums:


Other albums (all in Lossless format - APE, FLAC):

• http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgnmnghn_1dv5czr
  last updated 13 July 2007:
  Opus3 Test CD 4 & 5 *Audiophile*
  Ray Brown Trio All "Some of my best friends are..." series
  Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos [RCA Living Stereo] & [EMI Great Recordings of the Century] *Audiophile*
  
• List of all my posts

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Paganini: After a Dream is a landmark album from the acclaimed violinist Regina Carter. This recording-which features Carter and her band of Werner "Vana" Gierig, piano, Chris Lightcap, bass, Alvester Garnett, drums, and Mayra Casales, percussion-is the culmination of a fairy tale: a once-in-a lifetime encounter between a jazz musician from Detroit and the most famous violin in classical music, Paganini's Guarneri.

Perhaps the most legendary classical violinist in history, Nicolò Paganini, born in Genoa, Italy in 1782, had a technique so dazzling he was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil. When he died in 1840 he left his famous Guarneri violin, called "Il Cannone" or "The Cannon," to his beloved City of Genoa. Now it is kept in impeccable condition by the City of Genoa, and great violinists from around the globe make the pilgrimage there to play and record on it, but only under the watchful eyes of the conservators and two armed guards.

In December 2001, Carter, who had trained as a classical violinist but switched to jazz late in her high-school years, received an extraordinary invitation from the City of Genoa to perform on Paganini's violin. No jazz musician had ever laid hand on the violin, nor had any African-American. The idea of jazz being played on the precious instrument unleashed heated controversy in Genoa - until Carter held a press conference and charmed the Italian press by her gracious appreciation for the honor of playing the violin - and by speaking Italian! The press rallied around her, the concert sold out, and Carter received a standing ovation and became a heroine in Genoa.


TRACK List:
1. Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte (Maurice Ravel)
2. Black Orpheus (Manha de Carnaval) (Luiz Bonfa)
3. Pavane (Gabriel Faure)
4. Oblivion (Astor Piazzola)
5. Reverie (Claude Debussy)
6. Healing in Foreign Lands (Werner "Vana" Gierig)
7. Apres Un Reve (Gabriel Faure)
8. excerpt from Alexandra (Regina Carter)
9. Cinema Paradiso (Ennio Morricone)

Regina Carter Violin, Vocal, Arranger
Werner "Vana" Gierig Piano, Arranger, Producer
Chris Lightcap Bass
Alvester Garnett (8) Drums, Vocal
Mayra Casales (8) Percussion, Vocal
Borislav Strulev (2, 7) Cello
Ettore Stratta (1, 4, 9) Conductor, Producer
Jorge Calandrelli (1-2, 4-5, 7, 9) Arranger