Rajesh Mehta’s Sky Cage Quartet: Rajesh Mehta (Trompete), Georges-E. Schneider (Violine und Elektronik), Keith O’Brien (E-Gitarre und Elektronik), Chad Popple (Schlagzeug und Tabla)

Mehta will present his current work-in-progress Black Fractions at the Global Trumpets Festival. In this work he explores the effects of racism: of social divisions and human reductions and how parts of the society are isolated from the whole as well as a note of hopefulness in which the recognition of our mutual human condition (reciprocals) leads to a sense of shared identity. Mehta is creating a structure for the group improvisations using his visual approach through graphical drawings and integrating text that resonate with his thoughts and experiences with racism. The development of this work is partially supported by a Stipend from NRW.

Rajesh Mehta's Sky Cage Quartet performing Black Fractions

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Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, violin
Kostas Tosidis, guitar

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Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, violin
Ondřej Kukal, Conductor
The Louis Poulet Chamber Orchestra
recorded live during the concert on April 30th, 2009, in the Great Academic Hall of the Liege University, Belgium.

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This track features Georges-Emmanuel Schneider's recording of Béla Bartók's Sonata For Solo Violin Sz 117.

"The Swiss-born violinist plays the north-face original version of the Bartók work, the one that gave Menuhin so much trouble before the composer consented to gentle revisions." Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale

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Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, Violin
Kai Röhrig, Conductor
I Sinfonietti 01
recorded live during the concert on March 30, 2003 at the Zurich Tonhalle, Switzerland

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This track features Georges-Emmanuel Schneider's recording of Béla Bartók's Sonata For Solo Violin Sz 117.

"The Swiss-born violinist plays the north-face original version of the Bartók work, the one that gave Menuhin so much trouble before the composer consented to gentle revisions." Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale

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