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SPIRITS OF MUSIC (McFerrin, Kennedy)


Soloist: Boine, Marie
Soloist: Kennedy, Nigel
Soloist: McFerrin, Bobby
Soloist: Rubens, Sibylla
Soloist: Wilhelm, Veronika
Choir: Bulgarian Voices "Angelite"
Choir: Kuumba Singers
Ensemble: Al-Kindi Ensemble
Ensemble: Kroke
Ensemble: Whirling Dervishes of Damascus
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Conductor: McFerrin, Bobby

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
Composer: Ravel, Maurice
Composer: Mendelssohn, Felix
Composer: Monti, Vittorio
Composer: Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio
Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Composer: Humperdinck, Engelbert
Composer: Faure, Gabriel

Venue: Market Square Leipzig
Date of Concert: 2014
Playing Time: 02:38:04
Catalogue Number: EuroArts5214
UPC: 880242760081

Spirits of Music is an unusual musical journey through centuries and cultures, featuring multiple Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin, violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy, soprano Sibylla Rubens and the Gewandhaus Orchestra with music from Bach to Mozart and Verdi. Magnificent examples of religious music come from artists as Kroke the Kuumba Singers, Mari Boine, Bulgarian Voices Angelite and the Ensemble Al-Kindi one of the best formations devoted to classical Arab music. This extraordinary musical journey, which took place on one evening at the Leipzig Market Square is completed by the Cuban a capella group Vocal Sampling, consisting of musicians from Havana's National Superior Institute of arts, who are celebrating their very own interpretation of Afro-Cuban music.

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