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Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Janoska Ensemble

Thursday, 8 August 2019, Rougemont Church

Today's Music

Thursday, 8 August 2019
7.30 pm, Rougemont Church

One of the legends of French jazz, guitarist with an extra-terrestrial technique and father of the famous “gypsy” style; he became particularly famous during the 1930s within the Hot Club of France, together with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, accomplice of a certain… Yehudi Menuhin. Biréli Lagrène pays tribute to him together with other virtuoso string players, those of the Janoska family, who is taking advantage of his visit to give an improvisation workshop to the students of the String Academy.

Janoska Ensemble
Biréli Lagrène, Guitar

Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) 
Djangology 
Nuage 
Troublant Bolero 
Minor Swing 
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) 
Praeludium and Allegro (in the Style of Gaetano Pugnani) 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Air from the 3rd Orchestral Suite in D Major, BWV 1068 
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) / Cole Porter (1891-1964) 
Cole over Beethoven 
František Janoska (1986) 
Leonidas 
 100'
CHF 80/60/40