Nicola Benedetti plays 'Prayer' by Ernest Bloch - sponsored by Maker&Son скачать в хорошем качестве

Nicola Benedetti plays 'Prayer' by Ernest Bloch - sponsored by Maker&Son

Grammy award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti and friends perform Ernest Bloch’s ‘Prayer’ in a special recording at Kemps House, the home of British luxury sofa manufacturer Maker&Son and Founder Alex Willcock. “Music can uplift through joy and it can console through reflection. Sometimes you are looking for something to make you feel more of what you are feeling. And through the process is a kind of cleansing, or a rebirth of your most uplifted self. I know I understand that experience myself and I am sure most people do” Nicola Benedetti reflected, “...sometimes you go deeper to come up.” We want simply to share the internal experience that we have with music in the most visceral possible way that we can, through a camera and a screen and to do that in a way that brings people deep inside that experience. It's not easy, but we both have the same commitment to wanting to do that, for as many people as possible. So to take a piece of music like this, that we obviously feel so much of that raw emotion for and to be trying to capture, not so much the practicalities of playing it, or even the slightly more superficial layer of performance, but allowing people inside of the mind and heart of what it is that we are experiencing. A new arrangement of Prayer by Ernest Bloch Originally scored for cello and piano, this new arrangement for violin and string quartet was commissioned by Alex Willcock, classical music the founder of handmade sofa company Maker&Son, after discovering the piece earlier this year and being deeply affected by its melancholy beauty. “There is an element of this particular piece that enables you to connect with a zeitgeist, to connect with the ‘now’. Interview between Alex Willcock and Nicola Benedetti In an interview on www.makerandson.com, Alex Willcock and Nicola Benedetti talk about the serendipitous events that connected them and led to working together. “Our hope is that we can share the experience and the emotional connection that we both have - with the violin, and classical music - with as many people as possible. We hope to share our passion and to offer that experience, or sense of being completely immersed in beautiful music.” The Benedetti Foundation is transforming the meaning of music Maker&Son are truly grateful for this very special friendship, and believers in what the Benedetti Foundation are doing, and the way that the are doing it. By advocating (loudly and with great spirit) for the place of quality arts and culture in our schools and our home, the foundation - through it’s tutors, teams, trustees and the enormous following it has engendered - is transforming the meaning of music for everyone involved. Natural Comfort to last a lifetime When Alex founded Maker&Son with his son Felix Conran, together they made a simple decision - to do what they loved, in the way they loved doing it, with the people that they loved. For some the relationship between music and business that sells sofas isn’t immediately evident, but for those that know Alex and his deep love of music, the two sit in perfect harmony. Well-constructed music and well-constructed furniture are both made to last a lifetime. The whole purpose of a really comfortable sofa is to be really relaxed… and when you’re really relaxed, you get into this beautiful state. A state not dissimilar to that we find in the purpose behind really emotive music. The studio recording of this new arrangement of ‘Prayer’ is available for download on www.makerandson.com.