Graces that Refrain
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.GRCD4408

By Martin Taxt, Mathias Eick, Music For A While, Pal Hausken, Stian Carstensen, and Tora Augestad. By Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Franz S. Bruinier, Franz Schubert, George Frideric Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Henry Purcell, and John Dowland. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.GRCD4408).

Fearless "cover versions" of compositions in classical music: from John Dowland to Poulenc. Music for a while, lead by Norway's uncrowned queen of cabaret, Tora Augestad, release their long-awaited second album with the ambiguous title Graces that refrain. As leading lady for Music for a while, Augestad fronts a dream team of Norwegian jazz musicians: Stian Carstensen (Farmers Market), Mathias Eick (Jaga Jazzist, Manu Katche), Martin Taxt (Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Koboku Senju) and Pal Hausken (In the Country, Susanna). What particularly characterizes Music for a while, is the group´s personal, organic and creative treatment of the material. On their critically acclaimed first album, Weill Variations, the band did original and fresh versions of Kurt Weill´s immortal music. Graces that refrain features fearless "cover versions" of compositions in classical music: from John Dowland to Poulenc.

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