Jazz Macedonian Folk Dances & Classical Music - Tale Ognenovski

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Product Overview

• Format: Audio CD, Remixes included, Import, Jan. 6 2009
• Artist: Tale Ognenovski
• Release Title: Jazz Macedonian Folk Dances & Classical Music

DESCRIPTION CD album entitled" Jazz, Macedonian Folk Dances and Classical
Music". Label: Independent Records, USA. (Catalog: IR04542) includes: 3 Jazz
compositions, 6 Macedonian Folk dances and Classical Music, all composed by
Tale Ognenovski. Tale Ognenovski is soloist on clarinet, reed pipe, small
bagpipe and zourla. Album feature the Ognenovski performing with his current
quartet: Tale Ognenovski on clarinet, reed pipe, zourla, small bagpipe and
drum, his son Stevan Ognenovski on reed pipe and drum, his grandsons: Nikola
Ognenovski on reed pipe and Kliment Ognenovski on reed pipe. 6 Macedonian folk
dances (all composed by Tale Ognenovski) with unusual rhythms allow for highly
fluid and lyrical melodic interpretation. The exploration of Macedonian music
traditions with a jazz sensibility is remarkable on the three jazz
compositions. The sound is quite simply phenomenal. Tale Ognenovski has opened
up new possibilities for the clarinet that no one could have predicted. Each
piece on this album is rhythmically complex. Ognenovski's music is timeless.
Tale Ognenovski was obviously way ahead of his time, and it is a classic that
will be around forever. Tale Ognenovski Concert for Clarinet No. 1 is the most
beautiful and the most difficult Clarinet Concerto of all time. Variety of
phrasing, spectacular clarinet solos are both interesting and fascinating for
people to listen to and to admire. This CD Album is one of the Best
Instrumental Albums of all time. Tale Ognenovski is the greatest clarinetist,
reed piper, zourlist and small bagpiper of all time, demonstrating unique
skill, a wealth of invention, amazing improvisational virtuosity and
outstanding musical competence in all areas of music. He is one of the
greatest composers in the world of music. Tale Ognenovski is known across the
globe for his virtuosic performances. Musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
was born on January 27, 1756. Two hundred years later, on January 27, 1956,
another genius of music, Tale Ognenovski, performed as a virtuoso clarinet and
reed pipe soloist folk dances in the world-famous Carnegie Hall. Together, he
and the other members of the Macedonian Ensemble 'Tanec' appeared at Carnegie
Hall in a display of tremendous skill, which was a sheer joy to watch, listen
to music and to admire. Macedonian Ensemble Tanec's American tour began with
their debut on one of the most popular television programmes in the United
States, the Ford Foundation TV Programme "OMNIBUS", on January 22, 1956. This
programme was seen by millions of Americans. This TV debut of -Tanec" on CBS
(Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network, created great interest in
all 66 concerts in many towns throughout the United States. During an 84-day
tour throughout the United States of America and Canada (between January 22,
1956 and April 12, 1956), Ensemble 'Tanec' travelled 10,000 kilometres and
performed 66 concerts in 53 different towns. They were described as a Great
Cultural Event by the American press, with articles appearing in The New York
Times, The New York Daily Mirror, The New York Herald Tribune, The New York
World Telegram, The New York Daily News, Boston Traveler, Boston Globe,
Chicago Daily News, Chicago Daily Tribune, Saint Louis Globe Democrat, San
Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union, The Milwaukee
Journal, Washington News, Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, Denver
Rocky Mountain News, Life, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Globe and Mail, The
Washington Post and the Times Herald. This particular tour is one of the
longest and the most triumphant tours in the history of world music. Biography
Tale Ognenovski was born in the village of Brusnik near Bitola in the Republic
of Macedonia on April 27, 1922. Tale Ognenovski is the greatest clarinetist,
reed piper, zourlist and small bagpiper of all time, demonstrating unique
skill, a wealth of invention, amazing improvisational virtuosity and
outstanding musical competence in all areas of music. He is one of the
greatest composers in the world of music. Tale Ognenovski is known across the
globe for his virtuosic performances. Last CD entitled: Macedonian Clarinet
Jazz Composed By Tale Ognenovski will became something of a phenomenon. This
CD Album feature the Ognenovski performing with his current quartet: Tale
Ognenovski on clarinet, reed pipe, zourla, small bagpipe and drum, his son
Stevan Ognenovski on reed pipe and drum, his grandsons: Nikola Ognenovski on
reed pipe and Kliment Ognenovski on reed pipe. Ognenovski and his quartet
offering a sensational clarinet jazz music. Variety of phrasing, spectacular
clarinet solos are both interesting and fascinating for people to listen to
and to admire. Tale Ognenovski has opened up new possibilities for the
clarinet that no one could have predicted. Each piece on this album is
rhythmically complex. The exploration of Macedonian music traditions with a
jazz sensibility is remarkable. The sound is quite simply phenomenal.
Ognenovski's music is timeless. Tale Ognenovski was obviously way ahead of his
time, and it is a classic that will be around forever. He has composed and
arranged 150 Macedonian folk dances, one classical concert "Tale Ognenovski
Concert for Clarinet No. 1", and 12 jazz compositions. Some of his
compositions have been recorded on 11 LPs, 11 cassettes, 10 gramophone
records, 3 CD Albums and one videotape (Radio Television Belgrade, Serbia;
Jugoton Zagreb, Croatia; Macedonian Radio Television, Republic of Macedonia
and Independent Records, USA). Childhood and early years Tale Ognenovski
inherited his great talent from his great-grandfather Ognen and grandfather
Riste, both of whom were excellent players on the reed pipe ("kavalche"), and
from his father Jovan who was an excellent player on the bagpipe ("gajda"). He
began to play on the reed pipe at the age of 7 (1929) when he also made his
first musical composition. By the time Tale was 15 (1937) he began to play the
clarinet at many celebrations and concerts in villages and the town of Bitola
with many other musicians. Career From 1946 till 1951 he played in the
Cultural-Educational Societies of "Svetlost" and "Stiv Naumov" in Bitola, and
folk dance groups from the villages of Brusnik, Dihovo, Nizhopole, Rotino and
Lavci. Always a lover of classical music, Tale Ognenovski was prepared to
study alone to learn to play classical music on the clarinet. He performed
many times in radio broadcasts on Radio Bitola. He received the First Award as
the best clarinetist at the first regional Bitola Festival of Folk Dances and
Songs, held on October 9-11, 1947. From November 1, 1948 till December 30,
1948, he was a member of the Folk Orchestra of Radio Skopje at the invitation
of Mr. Vasil Hadzimanov and Mr. Nikolaj Galevski. First Award Clarinet, 1948
He had received the First Award Clarinet as the best clarinetist at the first
Macedonia Festival of Folk Dances and Songs, held in Skopje on October 11,
1948. He played many times with the Radio Skopje Studio Folk Orchestra, and
many of these performances were broadcast. From 1949 to 1951, at the
invitation of Mr. Angel Saldziev, Assistant Director in the Ministry of
Science and Culture in Republic of Macedonia, Tale Ognenovski toured the
Republic of Macedonia accompanied by folk dance groups from the villages of
Brusnik, Dihovo, Nizhopole and Lavci, and the "Chalgii" orchestras of Radio
Bitola and Radio Skopje. Mr. Angel Saldziev was the manager of these tours,
which were at the time significant musical events in Macedonia. First Award at
the Yugoslav (Former Yugoslavia) Folk Music Festival in Opatija, 1951 Tale
Ognenovski won First Award at the Yugoslav (Former Yugoslavia) Folk Music
Festival in Opatija, Croatia, September 9-12, 1951, together with another 11
members of the Folk Dance Ensemble from the Bitola village of Nizhopole. This
was out of 85 folk dance groups from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, Slovenia, Macedonia and Croatia. The Yugoslav (Forme