Tobias Koch was born in Kempen. He attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Dusseldorf, and conservatories Vienna, Graz and Brussels. Koch is the recipient of the Music endowment award of the City of Dusseldorf. He pursues a concert career specializing in historically informed performance practice and musicological research, constantly striving to lend the music he performs vivid color and unorthodox style on keyboard instruments best suited for the repertoire. Tobias Koch is on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Music College Dusseldorf, the Gutenberg University in Mainz, and at the Summer Academy in Montepulciano.

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On their second Genuin release, the young, multi-award-winning Monte Piano Trio from Frankfurt turns their attention to three great women composers. And this is not all that's remarkable about the production: Amy Beach, Natalie Klouda (in a work commissioned by the Monte Piano Trio), and Clara Schumann wrote the compositions during three completely different phases of their lives. But when we hear the ensemble's rich and full-bodied sound on this album, we have little thought about who wrote the music and who recorded it so flawlessly: the Romantic sonorities of all three works flow over us so limpidly and naturally that we only want to sit back and enjoy!

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Right from the very first wistfully tender notes of the sonata by Fernande Decruck, the young saxophonist Asya Fateyeva puts us under her spell: In GENUIN's Primavera edition, which features winners of the German Music Competition and always gives us outstanding soloists, she goes beyond all boundaries. The musician flies through Jacques Ibert's carefree saxophone concerto with such an ease, as if it's technical difficulties were nonexistent. And in Jean-Denis Michats concerto her saxophone entices us with Arabic accents - in a virtuosic manner that is equally stunning! Captivating discoveries, breathtaking played!

The violinist Annette Unger has already made several highly praised CDs issued by GENUIN, and her new release is also off the well-beaten path. All these pieces are wonderful, romantic enrichments of the standard repertoire, and the duo partners take every opportunity to let them sparkle.

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The Essence of Christmas is the Leipzig Flute Ensemble Quintessenz second release on the Genuin label. Anna Garzuly who leads the ensemble has studied in Budapest Munich and New York with Paul Meisen and Jeanne Baxtresser. She has also won prizes in renowned international competitions in Kobe Budapest Geneva and more.

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This impressive album of music by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) is performed by pianist Dinara Klinton. This is Klinton’s second album. She has won prizes in more than 15 international competitions, and was the first recipient of the Benjamin Britten Fellowship from the Royal College of Music. Titled Etudes d’execution transcendante, this album name brilliantly describes the style of Klinton’s playing, as her virtuosity sweeps across listeners.

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