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Avi Avital has just recorded a new CD with music by Johann Sebastian Bach with Deutsche Grammophone.

I have compiled some videos and interviews with Avi Avital.

Avi Avital Performs Bloch’s “Nigun” from Baal Shem

Avi Avital presents Bach

Watch the trailer of Avi Avital’s debut album on Deutsche Grammophon including transcriptions of Bach’s Violin Concerto BWV 1041, the Keyboard Concertos BWV 1052 and 1056, and a Flute Sonata in an arrangement for mandolin, lute, and cello.

Homestory: Avi Avital

Feature by arte: Avi Avital is one of the most stunning musicians our days. Nobody plays the Mandoline like him.

 Avi Avital im Verhör

An interview by a Bavarian TV station, recorded in Munich close to the river Isar:

Auf der Suche nach einem schattigen Platz am Isarufer zieht Avi Avital sogar die Schuhe aus und nimmt nasse Füße in Kauf. Um an die Stelle zu kommen, an der wir drehen wollen, muss das ganze Team inklusive Avi ein kurzes Stück durch das erfrischende Isarwasser waten. Unser Ziel: ein schöner Baum in der Nähe der Ludwigsbrücke in München.

http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/sendungen/u21/u21-verhoer-avital106.html

Radio Show The Bach Hour

hear the recordings of:

Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 (orig. for flute, arr. Avi Avital) – Avi Avital, mandolin; Ophira Zakai, theorbo; Ira Givol, cello

Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 – Avi Avital, mandolin; Shalev Ad-El, harpsichord; Ophira Zakai, theorbo; Chamber Academy Potsdam

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Bach-Hour–Classical-New-England-803/episodes/Mandolinist-Avi-Avital-and-Gardiners-Motets-40278

Interview NPR

Avi Avital: A Mandolinist’s Unlikely Education

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/07/07/156373761/avi-avital-a-mandolinists-unlikely-education

Website Avi Avital

http://aviavital.com/

The CD is available at Amazon (partnerlink): Avi Avital – Bach