Hibla Gerzmava (soprano)

Trio of Daniel Kramer

Works

• trad.: About the Rock
• anon.: Hava Nagila
• Donizetti: Me voglio fa'na casa
• Dvořák: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
• Gershwin: Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
• Glinka: I am here, Inezilla
• Handel: Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo)
• Howard, B: Fly Me to the Moon
• Kalman: Ich sing mein Lied im Regen und Schnee (from Das Veilchen von Montmartre)
• Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K165 - Alleluia
• Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
• Verdi: È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui...Sempre libera (from La Traviata)

The programme includes rousing and lyrical jazz improvisations, unexpected arrangements and fantasias on the pieces of classical, jazz and popular music composers. The crossover is a synthesis of very different musical styles. Hibla and Trio of Daniel Kramer were inspired to create a jazz/classical experiment a few years ago, but have had to wait torealise their ambition. It took more than a year to select the repertoire, discuss details and make arrangements. The result is a programme built on contrasts. There is Schubert’s Ave Maria and an unusual arrangement of Mozart’s Alleluia, Glinka’s Inesilia in a completely different guise, and the jazz hit Fly Me to the Moon. Combining classical depth and aesthetics with jazz harmonies and rhythms, an operatic voice with a swinging trio is not an easy task to accomplish, but Hibla Gerzmava and Trio of Daniel Kramer come through with flying colours.