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NEW ALBUM BY SEBASTIAN STERNAL AND THE FRANKFURT RADIO BIG BAND
- By Charlotte Schmitt
- 11 Nov 2024
Experimental piano meets orchestral big band: Sebastian Sternal and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band break new ground on their album Turning Point. Genre-crossing Sebastian Sternal has written music for the Frankfurt Radio Big Band that sounds almost classical while retaining the freedom of jazz. In each piece, the musicians celebrate the rules of their art at the highest level by breaking them with relish. A feast of sounds for discerning music lovers of all genres.
TURNING POINT: A rousing album by Sebastian Sternal and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band
Three-time ECHO Jazz Award winner Sebastian Sternal has come full circle with his new recording Turning Point. At the same time, the pianist is once again breaking new ground as composer and arranger of the first-rate Frankfurt Radio Big Band for this latest project. He leads the ensemble from the piano, allows the band's outstanding soloists to have their say - and has practically tailor-made the new compositions for them.
He has a tradition of constantly exploring finely tuned twists and turns in his compositional language. For more than two decades, the musician, who trained in Cologne and Paris, has been presenting a self-contained oeuvre full of contrasts. His first trio albums (from 2009) were followed by his award-winning Symphonic Society (from 2012), with almost orchestral excursions of the length of a record, before returning to the smallest possible form of music creation with an intensive solo album (2022). Turning Point undoubtedly concentrates this diversity structurally and conceptually to form the pinnacle of his work to date.
Foto: Sihoo Kim
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Sebastian Sternal & Frankfurt Radio BigbandTurning PointThree-time ECHO-JAZZ award winner Sebastian Sternal meets the hr-Bigband – in a project in which he not only plays piano, but also wrote all nine compositions and conducted the band during the recording.
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