9/21/2023 0 Comments Los kjarkas flac![]() This project stirred into life just down the road from Presto HQ, when LUDWIG’s artistic director Peppie Wiersma and a friend were unwinding after a concert in Birmingham and found themselves in a café-bar where the dance-floor was alive with couples foxtrotting and waltzing to their hearts’ content. Formed a decade ago in the Netherlands, the ensemble’s philosophy takes its cue from Alban Berg’s remark to an abashed George Gershwin that ‘music is music’ – indeed their 2017 recording of works by both composers was accompanied by a documentary which took that phrase as its title. There can’t be too many ensembles who’d consider following a disc of Grisey, Nono and Haydn with an album which encompasses dances by Barry Manilow, Glenn Miller and Elgar, but LUDWIG Orchestra has never been a group to play safe with its programming. ![]()
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