A century ago the program heard on this Czech release wouldn't have been daring or unusual, but for the year 2008 it decidedly was, and Czech violinist Pavel Sporcl deserves credit for stepping out of the norm with this classical-folk fusion experiment. Recorded live at the Prague club La Fabrika, the performance involves a roughly equal collaboration between Sporcl, whose repertoire until this point consisted of conventional classical works, and a gypsy ensemble called Romano Stilo he encountered at a benefit concert in ...
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A century ago the program heard on this Czech release wouldn't have been daring or unusual, but for the year 2008 it decidedly was, and Czech violinist Pavel Sporcl deserves credit for stepping out of the norm with this classical-folk fusion experiment. Recorded live at the Prague club La Fabrika, the performance involves a roughly equal collaboration between Sporcl, whose repertoire until this point consisted of conventional classical works, and a gypsy ensemble called Romano Stilo he encountered at a benefit concert in Bratislava, Slovakia. The CD booklet notes (in English, German, French, and Czech) indulge in some hype pertaining to how the members of Romano Stilo gave Sporcl "the greatest compliment a 'white' musician can ever expect to receive from a gipsy one"; they called him "one of us." But the influence went both ways, for the program consists of more than half Romany-flavored classical pieces like Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, done more or less straight. Traditional Eastern European tunes...
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