30 YEARS OF e.s.t. - TRIBUTE TO ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO
Love remains...
In 1993, three Swedish musicians, Esbjörn Svensson, Dan Berglund and Magnus Öström, formed the band e.s.t.. Svensson and Öström had known each other since they were children when they first started playing music. Neither of them could have imagined that e.s.t. would become the most influential band in European jazz in the 1980s. And when the band was formed, they probably didn't think they were particularly "jazzy" either; they just wanted to play the music that combined their passions: rock, pop, classical, folk, improvisation...
"e.s.t. 30" zooms from the widest panorama to the intimacy of the close-up. And from the utter silence and weightlessness of space in the opening "From Gagarin's Point Of View" to the closing "Believe, Beleft, Below", or as the later version with vocals calls it, to the heartfelt honesty of "Love is Real".
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Over the next 15 years, e.s.t. played thousands of concerts worldwide, released ten studio albums and numerous live recordings, won awards and gold records. We all know how the story ends.
Or did it really end? And will it ever end? To mark the 30th anniversary of e.s.t., Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund, together with close musician friends Joel Lyssarides, Magnus Lindgren, Verneri Pohjola and Ulf Wakenius, gave two major concerts, one at the Philharmonie in Cologne and the other at Filadelfia Church in Stockholm. They played a selection from the timeless e.s.t. repertoire but in a way we have never heard them before. The six musicians - all internationally renowned soloists - handle the original contours of these melodies and rhythms with tenderness and love. The iconic melodies and rhythms are all there, but we also hear how they open up again and again as the musicians immerse them in unexpected warmth and light. These musicians respond to each other in fascinating ways, and there's a definite tingle in the air as the audience listens in pinpoint silence, then erupts in boisterous applause at the end.
"If we met again, I would tell you how I feel, I would tell you from the beginning, I would tell you that love is real"
The love remains.
Released on the ACT label, the album wins professional and audience awards.
Magnus Öström - drums
Dan Berglund - double bass
Magnus Lindgren - tenor saxophone, flute
Joel Lyssarides - piano
Verneri Pohjola - trumpet
Ulf Wakenius - guitar
Erkel Theatre
Az Erkel Színház, Népopera néven 1911. december 7-én nyitotta meg kapuit. A többször is átalakított épület 1951 és 2007, valamint 2013 óta a Magyar Állami Operaház második játszóhelyeként funkcionál. Megnyitása óta az ország legnagyobb nézőterével büszkélkedhet, jelenleg 1819 ülőhellyel várja a közönséget.