Composers Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) and Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938), two versatile and strong-willed men who lived complex lives in a complex reality, each created his own world of music. Despite having lived in different times and places, they shared many common passions, music foremost among these. This disc alternates Poèms, Mazurkas and Sonatas by Scriabin and one of his younger idolizers. The Ukrainian-born, prize-winning pianist and co-founder of “Duo Kiol”, Violina Petrychenko, lives in Köln, Germany and works as a piano instructor at the Music Academy Köln-Süd.

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The Duo Amythis is made up of guitarists Véronique van Duurling (Belgium) and Harold Gretton (Australia). Formed in December 2008, the duo performed its first concert in Canberra in January 2009. Since then, they have played concerts, both solo and as a duo, in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and many other countries. On their latest release they take their listeners on a journey from the Australian plain over the spirited Balkans to the snow-covered north of Sweden. Featured composers include Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz, Percy Grainger, Johannes Moller, Dusan Bogdanovic, and Phillip Houghton. Johannes Moller’s piece, “When Buds are Breaking,” is receiving here its world premiere recording.

This new release has been long anticipated, and concludes Ars Produktion’s discographic documentation of one of the most outstanding German theater scene Ring productions. This production of Wagner’s Ring cycle from 1997/1999 received international enthusiasm from critics due to its amazing artistic interpretation and musical skill. This special release includes a bonus CD with an interview featuring famed opera journalist Thomas Voigt and the director of the Staatstheater Kassel, Michael Leinert.

The waning of the era of lute player in the early 18th century coincided with the rise of the smallest member of the lute family, the soprano lute, also known as the mandolin, mandola or leutino in Southern Italy, especially in Naples, the city of music. In the following decades, the city of Naples, with it's famous conservatories, saw the birth of a number of compositions for mandolin. Many distinguished composers set out to discover the new possibilities this instrument offered.

Caroline Goulding presents her debut CD along with pianist Danae Dörken. Caroline Goulding, a Boston, MA native has received the Kempinsky Young Artists Fellowship, the Avery Fisher Career grant and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. She appears throughout the world, performing solo repertoire. German newspaper Die Welt describes Dörken as "a poet on the piano". Dörken is one of the most sought-after soloists of her generation, playing regularly at festivals and concert halls around the world.

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For this album, cellist Matthias Bartolomey and pianist Clemens Zeilinger recorded three works from the violoncello literature of the 20th century. Even though the individual works may not share a closer temporal relation there are certain crucial aspects connecting these compositions. On the whole these three pieces share a frequently kindred tonal language or a similar harmonic approach effecting the translation of emotion into music.

Boris Bloch's stupendous keyboard art and his incredibly strong personality are the basis for the widely praised depth of expression, the richness of color, the astonishing stylistic authenticity and the incomparable 'singing' of his piano playing. All this is reflected in the carefully composed programs of his recitals. Bloch's latest album for ARS PRODUKTION commemorates the 190th anniversary of Schubert's death. Born in Odessa, the pianist and conductor Boris Bloch has long been regarded as one of the most important interpreters of classical and romantic piano music. After studying at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the world-renowned pianist and pedagogue Dmitri Bashkirov he soon built up a large and ever expanding repertoire extending from Scarlatti and Bach, the Viennese Classicists, Chopin and Liszt and covering the German and Russian Romantics to the most important composers of the 20th century. Bloch's detailed knowledge of the piano literature of the last three centuries, his familiarity with the entire history of music and it's protagonists along with his stupendous pianism and above all things his strong artistic personality form the basis for the much vaunted depth of expression, the abundance of color, the amazing stylistic originality and the incomparable "singing tone" of his playing, manifesting themselves equally in the careful composition of his recitals.

With Horn6, Joachim Ba?nsch presents the sound world of his instrument to the listener in all it's variety, ranging from solo works and original compositions to six-part arrangements. The recording was completed with the help of multi-track equipment. Ba?nsch notes: 'Dauprat's Sextet has fascinated me since my student days. Again and again, our concert performances of the sextet have come to grief, and even today we consider it barely playable on account of it's enormous technical challenges. I hired a sound engineer and spent two weeks recording it at a church in the Provence region of France.'

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