Jacob Reuven & Alon Sariel - Sources

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Jacob Reuven & Alon Sariel - Sources
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Sources, music for two mandolins is the new recording from Israeli-based Jacob Reuven and Alon Sariel.

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Sources

Background music? Most definitely not! “Sources”, a new disc of music performed on mandolin and mandola by Israeli artists Jacob Reuven and Alon Sariel, recorded at the Jerusalem Music Centre in October 2009, will involve the listener from beginning to end and will provide much food for thought. The two artists, equally at home in oriental- and western music, have chosen to play European works of three centuries, none of them originally written for plucked instruments.

Baroque works include five of J.S.Bach’s Two-Part Inventions and G.Ph.Telemann’s Canonic Sonata no. 1, the former conjuring up a Baroque keyboard association, the latter an articulate, vivacious celebration of the art of imitation.
The disc includes several works composed for violins: Jean-Marie Leclair’s Sonata no. 1 in G major, a Sonata by Michel Corette, Charles Auguste Beriot’s Twelve Easy Duos for Two Violins opus 87 and twelve of the miniatures included in Bela Bartok’s Forty Four Duos for Two Violins. In Bartok’s Duos, Reuven and Sariel present complex folk rhythms and modes, feisty dissonances and bitonality with a good measure of joie de vivre.
Johan Halvorsen’s setting (for violin and viola) of the Passacaglia from Handel’s Suite no. 7 in G minor is brilliantly handled by the artists, taking the listener through a gamut of emotions, textures and dynamics.
This is a disc of interest and artistic depth.

-A freelance journalist, Pamela Hickman grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She holds degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and New York University. She teaches, composes and writes about the music scene in Israel.