SONGS WITH WORD

“SONGS WITH WORD” released today via SONY CLASSICAL
“The tone poet.” (VOGUE)
“Ferruccio Busoni once said, ‘Music is sonorous air.’ That’s
what Kowalski’s music is. Most wonderful sonorous air.” (IGOR LEVIT)
“Mystical and unexpected.” (CHILLY GONZALES)

SONGS WITH WORDS is the new album by Malakoff Kowalski together with pianists Igor Levit, Johanna Summer, and Chilly Gonzales. The album features miniatures by classical composers coupled with sung poems by American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Reflecting on Felix Mendelssohn’s SONGS WITHOUT WORDS, this extraordinary quartet presents a new kind of music, and possibly a whole new genre that has never before appeared in this form either in classical music, jazz, or pop.