Roots

With Roots, his first Warner Classics album, violinist Nemanja Radulović draws on a diversity of cultures in a musical tour of the world. Roots has its roots in the pandemic. “Throughout this period I had the time to think profoundly about music … When the lockdown started I tried to create music, tried to practise, but I couldn’t.” As a listener, the music that really made Serbian-born Nemanja feel alive – in addition to Mozart – was music that reflected the traditions of its place of origin. “I realised how much music could connect people, through its sheer joy,” he says. “I realised that there was one thing I could offer to a world that lockdowns had forced behind new borders. And that was to reconnect it all through music … through world music, which is the basis of classical music.” He takes his journey in the company of his own ensemble, Double Sens, whose members come from both France and the Balkans. “The pieces selected for this album are very personal. My wish is that each of you discovers a world without borders through this music.”