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Township Serenade

MoZuluArt

Composers
Ravel; Mozart; Haydn
Released
2014
Label
Manus / Mozulu
Forces
Vocal, Piano, Orchestra

The three singers of MoZuluArt grew up in Bulawayo with music passed orally through families and communities. On Township Serenade, their Zulu and Ndebele vocal harmony meets Roland Guggenbichler’s piano and a 19-piece Viennese orchestra. Five pieces draw on Haydn, Mozart and Ravel, as well as the anonymous Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126.

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The classical side carries the source works these cuts came from. The jazz side carries the cuts themselves. Each player holds what is available, and they need not match.

The originalsRavel; Mozart; Haydn
Jazzed up5 cuts
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The cuts

The classical-derived cuts from this record, each with the classical work it came from.

  1. Side Isikathi (After Ravel’s M. 81)Ravel: Boléro, M. 81
  2. Lindelani (After Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”)Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525
  3. Hard Times (After J. Haydn’s Hob.XVII:9)Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in F major, Hob. XVI:9: II. Menuet
  4. Nyawo Lwami (After J.S. Bach’s BWV Anh.126)Anonymous: Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126, from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, with a Ndebele traditional
  5. Uthando (After Mozart’s K. 311)Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311