Johanna Summer & Malakoff Kowalski

In the organizer's words:

SONGS WITH WORDS

It all began with a crush: five years ago, Malakoff Kowalski heard Johanna Summer's Schumann improvisations, an "enchantment", as he wrote in Die Zeit, an incredible work that made him "dizzy with happiness". This was followed by an acquaintance - and the realization that Summer appreciated Kowalski's "art of economy" at least as much as he appreciated her for her wealth of ideas. This year saw the release of Summer's EP "Upright" and Kowalski's LP "Songs With Words", on which the German-American-Persian musician appears as a singer, pairs poems by Allen Ginsberg with classical piano pieces and is accompanied by Johanna Summer - as well as other recordings by Igor Levit and Chilly Gonzales. The two albums became a duo program that seems inevitable: on the one hand the meticulous perfectionist, on the other the highly virtuosic and imaginative jazz pianist who draws on classical music - the two, who adore each other, had to come together.