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Caravelli In Moscow

CARAVELLI
Caravelli In Moscow (Special 2nd Russian Edition)

 

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This is a special Russian edition of the Caravelli In Moscow CD.

Published jointly by Beheme Music (BMR), C. 1999, catalog number: CDBMR 907076
and Melodia, C. 1982, 1999, catalog number: MELCO 6700531.

Special 2nd Edition, 2002. Limited Edition!

Caravelli In Moscow contains recordings by the famous French band leader performing with Soviet musicians, made in early 1980s in Moscow, Russia.  The music is an adaptation of popular Soviet and folk songs.

Track List:

  1. A Starlit Summer
  2. Love Has Come
  3. The Moon Is Shining
  4. It Was Long Ago
  5. I Was in the Garden
  6. The Red Arrow Train
  7. Expectation
  8. Carrie's Song
  9. Music of Love
  10. Farewell
  11. On the Swings
  12. No One Gives up on Love

The idea to record an album with the adaptations of Russian and Soviet songs came upon Caravelli while his was preparing for his USSR tour. Upon returning to Paris, after his orchestra's concerts in Riga and Moscow consistently collected a packed houses in the fall of 1981, Caravelli started his work on the project by thoroughly reviewing all recordings that arrived for him from Moscow. Before arriving to Moscow to record the album, Caravelli arranged and recorded with his orchestra two compositions (Love Has Come and Farewell).

Once the work has started, Caravelli arrived into the studio of the recording firm Melodia in the second-half of May of 1982. He came from Paris together with his sound director Jean Claude Egreteau, who has worked with the maestro for many years.

"It was easy as well as difficult," noted later Caravelli. "It is easy because Russian and Soviet songs are melodious and beautiful, and, therefore, my purpose it was only to select the best from the good. It is difficult because I was attempting in my arrangement to preserve the tunefulness of Russian and contemporary Soviet songs, while at the same time I was trying to present them in the interpretation of a Frenchman. In other words, I was trying to make the recordings sound like Caravelli. Another aspect of the complexity was that I did not know the musicians, for whom I was writing the music."

Caravelli's fears were in vain, and Soviet musicians fulfilled their tasks with flying colors. Upon the completion of the work, maestro described the joint operation: "The results exceeded my expectations. I met the talented, highly professional musicians in Moscow. I figure that we were mutually enriched by our the work in the recording studio Melodiya. In the end, however, the evaluation of our final product will be given by our listeners...