For Music Council prize winners Andreas Martin Hofmeir and Andreas Mildner, instrumental perfection and ideal ensemble playing are only the basic conditions for their new CD. Sensitivity and humor characterize both of them, and they are two of the most brilliant practitioners of their respective instruments.

On their debut release, these three young and dynamic musicians perform a blend of works by the old master Mikhail Glinka and the imaginative Swiss composer Daniel Schnyder. Trio Elego features Antonia Lorenz on clarinet, Philipp Zeller on bassoon and Isabel von Bernstorff on piano.

Genuin presents the second release of the Saxon Wind Philharmonic, this time featuring for the first time, festive wind music. Director and conductor Thomas Clamor leads the group through Bernstein and Gershwin classics such as Candide, Summertime, and Strike up the Band.

Germany's youngest top orchestra is already releasing it's eighth album with GENUIN. This time around, the German String Philharmonic is presenting repertoire from late Romanticism up to the present day. The program includes works by Elgar and Suk, Mahler's famous Adagietto, and Bacewicz's Concertino for Strings. It also features a world premiere recording: Shir-Ran Yinon's Vivid, full of gripping rhythms and bursting with energy! The joie de vivre that emanates from the young musicians is joined by the heart and soul with which they play - and thus their release is called Alma! Not only the name of Gustav Mahler's wife, but also the Italian word for "soul" or "spirit." A more fitting title could hardly be imagined!

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“Sandmann, lieber Sandmann,” (“Sandman, dear Sandman”) is a text familiar to every child in the GDR, sung by the Leipzig Radio Children’s Choir, which became the MDR Children’s Choir. And this very children’s choir is here to present music by its founder Hans Sandig on a Genuin release, under the direction of Ulrich Kaiser and Wieland Lemke. The program features the world premiere recording of Sandig’s late “Morgenstern cycle Winter Cantata,” as well as the first new recording of his “Zoo Cantata Come on, we’re going to the Zoo!” since German reunification. We’ll get to know the grumpy moon bear, the trotting oriental camel, and last but not least, the earthworm- lots of fun, melodious, and with tunes that are guaranteed earworms!

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Principal bassoonist of the Hamburg Philharmonic, Christian Kunert, performs concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, Gordon Jacob, Jean Francaix and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Kunert is the recipient of many awards including the 2nd prize and public's choice award at the 57th annual ARD music competition in Munich, prize winner at the 1st Theodor-Rogler Chamber Music Competition and prize winner at the international woodwinds competition in Bayreuth, Germany.

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The Great Gate of Kiev is in itself huge. But with the eight horns of German horn sound plus percussion amplification it becomes gigantic! After their successful Verdi-Wagner Portrait "Siegfried and Violetta" the world-class horn players appear again in 8.1 wide-screen format on their second GENUIN-CD. However, before the listener is blasted away by the sound of the Great Gate, he travels through a veritable musical Jurassic Park: spooked by the Gnome, a witches' Sabbath on the Bald Mountain, and morbid waltzes and emotional suffering with Romeo and Juliet. On the program: Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev - here dances the Russian bear!

Green is the third of the highly praised color series by the award-winning Amaryllis Quartet. White received the ECHO Klassik in 2012.

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​Industrialists used to have a direct connection to art in the days when the towel manufacturer Tost commissioned string quartets from Haydn and provided Spohr with the occasion to compose a nonet. The mixture of strings and winds was much the fashion in those days, forming one of the pillars of court and bourgeois entertainment music. And when one listens to the pieces by Mozart and Clementi served at afternoon tea by the fabulously transparent and virtuoso Persius Ensemble from Potsdam, one hears that Spohr’s magical piece was in good company. Who was Persius? A master builder of the Prussian king, who else … But you can also enjoy the ravishing, witty and finely woven Genuin CD even if you hadn’t known the answer to this question … Long live architecture, long live the textile industry!

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