Familiar Christmas melodies from German-speaking countries as well as a selection of the most beautiful Christmas carols from all over the world have been put together by the renowned Calmus Ensemble from Leipzig on their new Christmas album. The arrangements of Es kommt ein Schiff geladen, Barn Jesus i en krybbe lå, Stille Nacht and, of course, White Christmas for the vocal quintet give the traditional songs a fresh, sonorous and sometimes surprising guise. Always touching, but never kitschy, White Christmas by Calmus is a real "must have" for the Advent and Christmas season!
Weihnachts Lieder Aus Aller Welt, Vol. 1 / Calmus Ensemble
Carus
CD
$18.99Nov 13, 2015
The sublime Calmus Ensemble has recorded a selection of the most beautiful Christmas carols from all over the world exclusively for this CD collection. Containing carols from Denmark, Germany, England, France, Ireland, Croatia, North America, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sweden and Spain as well as "Silent Night" in several languages, the holidays just got a bit more cozy with this beautiful collection of songs and the worthy "Liederprojekt" which contributes to children's music education has another valuable addition to it's discography.
Brahms, R. Schumann, Gade: Music for Clarinet & Piano: Manz, Schuch
Berlin Classics
CD
$20.99May 20, 2022
On his latest album "Brahms, Schumann, Gade", the clarinet virtuoso and three-time ECHO Klassik winner Sebastian Manz dedicates himself to three absolute opera magna of the clarinet repertoire. The focus on the chamber music core repertoire makes this album project stand out clearly from the artist's previous discography. Without distractions or programmatic embellishments, Sebastian Manz completely serves the artistic content of these timeless masterpieces in this album. Sebastian Manz is accompanied on the piano by Herbert Schuch. Together they inspire with recordings in which one can hear that time and space have been left for spontaneous musical qualities. The thoughts and emotions of the performers thus come to the fore unfiltered. In addition, large-scale takes preserve the musical flow and their naturalness.
The fact that Niels Wilhelm Gade became famous as a composer primarily for his symphonic and concertante music is probably one of the reasons why his piano music, despite being widely published in print during his lifetime, has been relegated to the shadows. Marie-Luise Bodendorff presents a selection of Gade's piano works here, which makes it clear that we should revise our image of Gade.
