Spark – Folk Tunes

What an arrangement of my piece "Budget Bulgar" sounds like after it's been outputted from Notion Music via MusicXML into Sibelius 7

Budget Bulgar - as mashedup by Notion XML export

Kamran Ince - Two Step Passion, version for piano trio (excerpt)

Traditional - Greensleeves

The original demo Ljova recorded for "OLd Lautar", a piece that had since been recorded by Spark on their Deutsche Grammophon release, "Folk Tunes". (See more about that at http://www.spark-off.com/ )

A "Lautar" is a common term for a Gypsy violinist.

The Old Lautar (Original Version)

Fazıl Say, Kumru

Hailed by the New York Times as “dizzyingly versatile… an eclectic with an ear for texture… strikingly original and soulful”, LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, as well as a busy career as a freelance violist, violinist & musical arranger. Among recent projects is a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider and a commission for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, arrangements for Alan Pierson and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, tenor Javier Camarena, conductor Alondra de la Parra, the Mexican songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla, The Knights, and collaborations with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon and Eduardo Vilaro (with Ballet Hispanico). Ljova is also the composer and conductor of the video project “Signal Strength“, shared by over 200,000 viewers worldwide.