Alondra de la Parra and The Impossible Orchestra | Music Documentary

Musicians recording at different locations and times, yet forming an ensemble: Impossible? No! Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra presents “The Impossible Orchestra“, playing a signature piece of the classical music repertory: Danzón No. 2 by composer Arturo Márquez. For the project, de la Parra assembled big-name musicians including, amongst others: The world-famous, Mexican-born tenor Rolando Villazon playing percussion; double bass player Edicson Ruiz; violinists Maxim Vengerov and Guy Braunstein; cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Jan Vogler; oboist Albrecht Mayer; percussionist Christoph Sietzen, and horn player Sarah Willis. The members of this “Impossible Orchestra” play at different times and in different places, such as Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, and Valencia. And of course the “Danzón No. 2” needs to also be danced, in a performance by Mexican prima ballerina Elisa Carrillo Cabrera. The result is a unique online performance, one that only c