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"• An album of three chamber works composed or arranged for violin, viola and two cellos – a rare and intriguing string collective. • A pupil of Rimsky-Korasakov and later teacher of both Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Anton Arensky's chamber works are considered amongst his finest compositions. • Ernest Sauter (1928-2013) gained his greatest degree of recognition as a composer for the ballet. The work heard herein, titled ""À la mémoire d'Arenski"", is a fitting companion to the Arensky work."

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Even if the title refers more to the gothic sacred buildings of England, Nadege Rochat, inspired by her two-year studies in London, wanted to place the no less spectacular mansions of the island a musical monument. With works by Elgar, Walton and Boyle, she takes us to the time of the series Downton Abbey and designs a musical panorama of England at the beginning of the 20th century.

Shortly after Thomas Leleu moved to Berlin in 2017, he discovered Kurt Weill's music. In Leleu's eyes, Weill symbolizes both exile (to France and the USA) and the mixture of genres, cultures, the influence of jazz, cabaret and classical music. Kurt Weill is the cornerstone of this program, which revolves primarily around vocal works. This album shows Leleu's preference for different genres and how he feels comfortable in each of them. The international press described Leleu as "the world star of the tuba" (Europe 1), "the tuba prodigy" (La Crois), and "the tuba has found it's Paganini" (France Musique). The "absolute genius of the tuba" (La Nouvelle Republue) has forged an impressive career as a crossover artist, performing both classical as well as world and pop music. He deploys his astonishing musicality and versatility to dust off the traditional image of the tuba, while his wide-ranging interests and relaxed approach to concert life make him an ideal ambassador of his instrument.

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On their second album of this series, Ensemble Esperanza is looking south. Just as on their debut album, Nordic Suites, Ensemble Esperanza has selected dance-like pieces, this time from the highly variegated musical landscapes of Southern Europe. Although only one of the works is in the form of a traditional dance suite, all four move with a swaying motion. The works on this recording date from the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. All four are highly individualistic in character and share a quest for essence and for the sublime, with a formal clarity and lucidity inspired by the great model of Classical Antiquity, which first gave rise to this vast cultural landscape. The warmth of the underlying sentiment allows the pieces to align with their own luminous ideal of Mediterranean beauty. Ensemble Esperanza was founded in 2015 as part of the integral musical education programme of the International Academy of Music in Lichtenstein. With the exception of the concert master, the ensemble is made up of grantees of the International Academy of Music who are coming together for their musical projects from all over the world.

The Ensemble Esperanza was formed in 2015 by students of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein as part of an integral musical education programme. With the exception of the concertmaster, Chouchane Siranossian, the harpsichordist, the ensemble is made up of grantees of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein who are coming together for their musical projects from all over Europe. With their debut release they are embarking on a new challenge, for which the venerable musical form of the suite provides an appropriate setting.

Claude Debussy's piano music plays a central role in his compositional oeuvre. Debussy combined Russian as well as Oriental and East Asian influences with his admiration for Bach and the French harpsichord masters to create a relatively compact body of work. The classical contours and absolute clarity of Debussy's musical forms and the unity and self-contained character of his work, for which he owed a great debt to Rameau, contradict the widely held association of his music with vague, indistinct impressionism, which Debussy vehemently rejected. Debussy's music is characterized by it's refinement of tone colors, transforming sound into a unique and highly nuanced world of expression. Debussy's emphasis on tone color is directly linked to his harmonic style: while being neither attached to tonality nor leaving it entirely behind, Debussy transcended the formative effect of functional harmonic relationships through the use of chromaticism, and pentatonic and exotic scales. Mario Haring was born into a German-Japanese family of musicians in Hanover Germany in 1989 and grew up in Berlin. He began playing violin and piano at the age of three and began receiving formal piano lessons in 1994. As a soloist and chamber musician, Mario Haring has won sixteen first prizes at music competitions all over the globe.

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The third edition of the series Film Music – Sounds of Hollywood presents music from the most famous movies and television series. The brilliant sound of the Vogtland Philharmonie brings Hollywood directly into your sound system. Some of the most award-winning film scores are presented on this album, including selections from John William’s Star Wars score, who was nominated for his fourth Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2015. Also included are selections from House Of Cards, Game of Thrones, Aladdin, Bonanza, and others. The Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra is a supra-regional orchestra with a unique spectrum of activities ranging from symphonic concerts to serenades and gala evenings, from concerts in historical costumes to film music performances or contemporary crossover projects. The Vogtland Philharmonic has developed a series of educational programs as well, such as the “Kids meet Classic” concert series, in order to engage new musical talent. As the musical ambassador of the region, the Vogtland Philharmonic performs all over Europe, as well as in Turkey, China and in the USA. It is also a regular partner of international music competitions. Formed in 1992 as the result of a merger between two renowned symphony orchestras from Thuringia and Saxony, the Vogtland Symphony has since established itself as an indispensable cultural institution. It continues the over 150 year old orchestral tradition of the region at the highest artistic level and continues to delight with its spirit of invention and innovation.

This recording combines all the major works of bassoon repertoire written between 1770 and 1830, with Mozart's magnificient concerto as the undisputed masterpiece of the entire repertoire. He was able to bring the full range of bassoon's possibilities into play, making use of its entire tonal range in the opening movement, with semiquaver passages, glorious cantabile sections and maniacal trills. Matthias Rácz, probably one of the best bassoon players of our generation, present this work as well as the two concertos of Hummel and Weber with the greatest of ease.

Today Camille SaintSaëns is classified as a conservative classicist by many people. By his contemporaries he was considered as a musical revolutionary who demanded "dreams of the future" his audience. His oratorio Le Déluge courted the pope's resentment; he criticized it as too secular. It certainly is a significant contribution to the French Oratorio, whose composer is finally rediscovered as one of the great personalities in the history of music.

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The fourth episode of the "Weimar Classic" is dedicated to Franz Carl Adelbert Eberwein's "Entreactes and Songs to Goethe's Wife". It's a world premiere recording and is presented by the chamber choir of the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar under the direction of Jürgen Puschbeck. They are accompanied by a number of speakers and singers, including Hans Burkia in the role of Faust. Franz Carl Adalbert Eberwein (10 November 1786 - 2 March 1868) was a German composer and violinist. He was born in Weimar, Germany and learned music under the consultation of his father. He was good friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and put music to many of his works, such as Faust and to Proserpina.