Classical Music

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We are taking the liberty of also performing op. 50 as a solo on the viola da gamba. In his title, Boismortier writes: „Pour les Violoncelles, Bassons ou Violes“. We have kept to that. He was practical and versatile – and so are we.

Quatuor Avium presents here a representative selection of compositions in an alternative instrumentation.

Maria Solozobova is one of the most renowned violinists of her generation. Her dazzling career has already taken her to the world’s finest concert halls including the Tonhalle Zurich, the Stadtcasino Basel, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Koelner Philharmonie, the Great Hall at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Ljubljana’s Philharmonic Hall. Solozobova has played under many famous conductors such as Vladimir Spivakov, David Zinman, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Jurowski, Daniel Raiskin, Muhai Tang, Peter Csaba, Howard Griffiths and Michael Hofstetter. She is a frequent guest, both as a soloist and a chamber musician, at the most prestigious festivals in the world. Solozobova’s performances today include appearances with leading orchestras and musicians worldwide including as Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Yuri Bashmet, Maria Joao Pires, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sol Gabetta and Mikhail Pletnev.

In her latest project, the soprano Andrea Chudak - known for her repertoire curiosity and joy of discovery - has dedicated herself to very cheeky settings by the composers Hans Stähli, Regina Wittemeier, Torsten Ratzkowski and Rainer Killius. The individual songs on this recording are as colorful as the accompanying poems by Wilhelm Busch. The poet with the good powers of observation, especially for everyday events, always succeeds in setting the peculiarities of human nature in small satirical scenes and drawing some surprising conclusions from them. At all times, composers have set texts by respected poets to music. And in the German-speaking world, nobody can ignore the texts of the poet, draftsman and painter Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908). The stories of Max and Moritz are and were formative for every child - the figures of teacher Lempel, widow Bolte or Fips the monkey or Plisch and Plum, drawn with a sharp pen, have burned into everyone. He describes his protagonists in striking words and as a reader one somehow assumes that the same images for these texts unfold in everyone's imagination. The present recording clearly shows how different this can be. Compositions for a soprano voice by four different composers show different intonations, perspectives and narrative styles of one and the same poet.

The theme of this release is ricordanza (reminiscence). This is established right at the beginning by “La Ricordanza“, a very thoughtful, rarely played piece by Liszt’s teacher, the important educator and composer Carl Czerny. Born in Georgia and based in Germany, the pianist Catherine Gordeladze has gained renown by virtue of her “sparkling tone,” “an original, profound musicality” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), her “charm, brilliant technique and great variety of tone colors” (Radio Bremen) and a “performance underpinned by instinctive sureness and elegance” (Zeitung furs Dresdner Land), thus establishing herself as one of the most remarkable musicians of the younger generation.

The Duo Conradi-Gehlen was founded by Stefan Conradi and Bernd Gehlen after both participated in the television recording of Mauricio Kagel’s “Repertoire” from “Staatstheater” in 1986. At this time, Stefan Conradi and Bernd Gehlen were both studying at the Academy of Music in Karlsruhe. They have so far performed and/or premiered works of John Cage, and many others at numerous concerts. (Antes)

Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, composed for piano but best known via Maurice Ravel’s orchestrated edition, is here arranged for organ and trumpet. + Three encore tracks, two from Mussorgsky and one appropriately enough from Ravel (the poignant Pavane), complete this affair. + Joachim Enders has proven his versatility as an organist, harpsichordist and pianist in many solo recitals and chamber concerts. + Manfred Bockschweiger is first trumpet with the State Theatre in Darmstadt.

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Mikl�s R�zsa's dynamic score for the film El Cid transcribed and played on a Klais pipe organ in L�on Cathedral in Spain by Phillip Pelster.

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