George Enescu - Akim Moiseenkov - Leoš Janáček - Fazil Say

Black Rainbow

Julija Hartig

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917200447

Catalog number: CC 720044
Releasedate: 16-01-26

- Following her Edison Award win, Julija Hartig returns with her musical soulmate, pianist Reineke Broekhans.
- Black Rainbow traces the emotional landscape of migration, heritage, and belonging.
- The title work—co-created with Akim Moiseenkov—receives its world premiere, blending violin, voice, and electronics.
- Hartig and Broekhans share over 25 years of musical partnership and emotional depth.
- Merging classical artistry, live electronics, and ancestral voices, Black Rainbow bridges folk roots and modern sound.
- From Janáček to Enescu and Fazıl Say, the album unites Europe’s diverse musical souls in one story.

Black Rainbow is a deeply personal musical journey in which violinist and vocalist Julija Hartig explores questions of belonging, identity, and heritage. The album connects her multicultural roots—Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Austrian—to her Yugoslavian upbringing, weaving a narrative about migration and ancestral memory. The title work, co-created with Akim Moiseenkov, fuses violin, voice, and live electronics to tell the story of three generations of female migration through sound, using folk elements, recorded voices of her ancestors, and electronic textures. This composition serves as both a meditation on the flow of culture and a sonic bridge between past and present.

Through the music of Leoš Janáček, Fazıl Say, and George Enescu, Hartig continues this exploration of roots and renewal. Janáček’s folkloric sonata evokes her sense of “home,” while Say’s modern improvisational language resonates with her Balkan background. Enescu’s Romanian-inspired sonata becomes a revelation of shared ancestry and emotional kinship. Together with pianist Reineke Broekhans, her long-time musical partner and soulmate, Hartig turns Black Rainbow into more than an album—it is a reflection on the “Ancestral Code,” showing that wherever we go, the sound of our heritage remains within us