Kinan Azmeh is an outstanding soloist and composer of our time. Hailed as “intensely soulful” and a “virtuoso” by The New York Times and “spellbinding” by The New Yorker, Winner of Opus Klassik award in 2019 clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international recognition for what the CBC has called his “incredibly rich sound” and his distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres.

FLOW presents Kinan’s music in fantastic arrangements of Wolf Kerschek, played by the legendary NDR Bigband. The recording was one of the first studio recordings that took place after the first lockdown in 2020, followed by two successful concerts in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.

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Recorded at NDR Studio 1, Hamburg, 23rd to 30th October 2020.