Esther Abrami

Description

The first self-titled album by violinist Esther Abrami on Sony Classical is a record where creativity is the key word, playing with different styles of classical music and giving pride of place to new compositions. By collaborating with a wide variety of contemporary composers and musicians as well as with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esther Abrami offers an inspiring album and brilliantly represents an entire new generation of classical musicians. British composer and pianist Alexis Ffrench, Dutch neo-classical pianist Annelie, French pianist and composer Alban Claudin, Oscar-winning British composer Rachel Portman, British cellist and composer Julian Llyod Webber, and American film music composer Jacob Shea,... All contributed to Esther’s album by offering her new compositions of their own. However, the album does not forget the great classical composers and includes original works by Clara Schumann and Amy Beach, as well as several new arrangements of some of the most famous classical melodies. Listeners will thus be able to recognize Pjotr Tchaïkovski, Éric Satie or even Frédéric Chopin. German composer and pianist Florian Christl, meanwhile, wrote a new arrangement based on Bach’s famous violin concerto, while American producer and composer Wide Eyed created a new variation on Mozart’s legendary air from Eine kleine Nachtmusik. One of the other major highlights of the album is Sainte Victoire en sol mineur - an orchestral composition that Esther wrote with one of her friends, French electronic music producer Worakls. “I decided to perform different styles of music in order to connect with all of my audience. The people who know me through TikTok are not the same as those who discovered me on YouTube or on the radio. I wanted this record to bring them together. I don’t think we should be put in a box and confined to a single style of music. In classical music, musicians tend to fade into the background behind the music, but with this album, people can discover who I really am, because it does justice to all my musical tastes and because I was able to be myself,” Esther explains. She adds: “On this record, I was able to work directly with composer Rachel Portman, who was one of my idols when I was younger. That was very important to me, and it goes in the same direction as the pieces Tomorrow composed by Annelie or Clara Schumann’s Romance. I want to inspire young women to become composers or classical musicians, because there are still too few of us. It’s time to change things!”