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“Pop Songs”: Vogler plays Monteverdi and Michael Jackson
The cellist Jan Vogler plays at a concert in Brandenburg. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB/Archive image
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Cellist Jan Vogler has prepared hits from several centuries for his new album “Pop Songs”. The album was released on Friday with 15 tracks on Sony Classical. Monteverdi’s duet “Pur ti miro” was a pop song in Venice in 1642 and was sung by people on the street, Vogler told the German Press Agency in Dresden. “Michael Jackson’s productions are inconceivable without opera.” Both musicians are at the beginning and end of the album. In “Pur ti miro” Vogler can be seen in a duet with Omer Meir Wellber. The conductor, who conducts the BBC Philharmonic on other tracks on the CD, plays the accordion on Monteverdi.
Cellist Jan Vogler has prepared hits from several centuries for his new album “Pop Songs”. The album was released on Friday with 15 tracks on Sony Classical. Monteverdi’s duet “Pur ti miro” was a pop song in Venice in 1642 and was sung by people on the street, Vogler told the German Press Agency in Dresden. “Michael Jackson’s productions are inconceivable without opera.” Both musicians are at the beginning and end of the album. In “Pur ti miro” Vogler can be seen in a duet with Omer Meir Wellber. The conductor, who conducts the BBC Philharmonic on other tracks on the CD, plays the accordion on Monteverdi.
«Pop Songs» contains compositions by Vivaldi, Gluck, Rossini, Wagner, Gershwin and also by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Gary Moore’s “Still Got The Blues” and Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” close the album. Vogler considers a strict separation of serious and popular music to be wrong anyway: “It’s nothing new for me, because I’ve actually been following this path intensively for almost 20 years. I played Jimi Hendrix on the cello, worked with Eric Clapton and Udo Lindenberg and was never afraid to try new things, »explained the musician.
Cellists also set the tone at the Dresden Music Festival (May 11 to June 12). Artistic Director Vogler has invited more than 40 cello colleagues to «Cellomania 2.0», a «festival within a festival». Cellists can be heard in 19 concerts of various genres and formats, including heavy metal musicians from «Apocalyptica».