One of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century, Dinorah Varsi's musicianship is showcased in this "Legacy" box. Varsi plays over 250 yeras of music from Rameau and Bach to Bart�k and Ustvolskaya.

The Eliot Quartet offers a reminiscence of C�sar Franck, the magician of sound, on it's new GENUIN album in co-production with SWR. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Belgium's greatest composer, the multinational ensemble has combined Franck's only string quartet with his celebrated piano quintet. The friendship between the quartet and pianist Dmitry Ablogin bears musical fruit on this release, as the five musicians weave an intense web of sound between keyboard and strings in the Piano Quintet. Both works on this album testify C�sar Franck's mastery and ability to conjure vast sweeping lines in the most harmonically and melodically refined late Romantic garb!

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An illustrious guest on the 17th CD of the Edition Artist Consort: the grand seigneur of the oboe, Heinz Holliger, plays Mozart's sparkling Oboe Quartet with his Swiss compatriots. The two other woodwind chamber works by the greatest Viennese classicist on this new GENUIN CD are of the same extraordinarily high level. As first among peers, Felix Renggli interprets the fragrant Flute Quartet, and François Benda plays the basset clarinet in the same role as in the original version of the Clarinet Quintet.

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Mellow, portly, and ponderous: this is the tuba, you believe? Multi-award-winning young tuba player Constantin Hartwig does away with all the cliches. His debut release, appearing in the Genuin Primavera Edition, reveals the winner of the 2016 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb to be a swinging, dynamic, and breathtakingly virtuoso musical force of nature who practically gives his instrument a new face. The works he presents here bear such titles as ''pearls'', ''Silhouettes'', and ''The Liberation of Sisyphus''. Crossing boundaries, expanding repertoire, and performed at a dizzyingly high level: join in and swing along!

Cellist Daniel Haefliger and pianist Gilles Vonsattel play works by Heinz Holliger, one of the great composers of our time, on the new CD in GENUIN'S Artist-Consort series. + The works range from early pieces to current production, revealing astonishing stylistic variety: from the sonic journeys of the Chaconne (1975) to the explosions of color of the Feuerwerklein (2012), from almost inaudible processes of amalgamation in Romancendres to the relentless rhythms in the final movement of the Partita.

Claude Debussy was profoundly permeated by his French roots. However, his Ballad demonstrates that Russian influences from Tchaikovsky also played an important role in his compositions. In works such as the Danse bohemian and the Arabesques, the fusion of both French and Russian inspiration comes together for a unique aural experience.

What Simon Höfele does with his trumpet is simply sensational! The prizewinner of the German Music Competition and winner of the special prize "U21" of the ARD music competition shows all his skills on his GENUIN debut album in the Primavera Edition. It presents an electrifying program of contemporary music: from György Ligeti to HK Gruber, from André Jolivet to Toshio Hosokawa. What results is a firework of sounds, between delicate hints and shattering fanfares, between deep seriousness and teasing humor. Höfele and his colleagues on piano and percussion start with a debut that promises for a great career! Simon Hofele, only 23 years old, is one of the most exciting trumpeters of the up and coming generation. Just this year he gave his debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, and more. He was also recently selected as a BBC Radio 3 new generation artist.

The Edition Primavera already consists of numerous commendable CDs, produced by GENUIN in collaboration with the German Music Competition! The latest offering in this series is the debut CD of pianist Frank Dupree (b. 1991), the 2014 prizewinner. His clever program spans an extremely wide range of music: bracketed by Beethoven's first and last piano sonatas, works of the 20thand 21st c. – a world-premiere recording of Peter Eötvös, as well as Berio's Encores and Alban Berg's first sonata, are performed, all-in-all an intellectual as well as a sensual musical pleasure.

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Once again, the Saxon Wind Philharmonic under Thomas Clamor unleashes a veritable display of musical fireworks: On their new Geniun album the musicians take us to Russia- and all who are not yet fans of this fantastic ensemble would do well to come along! The recording offers numerous highlights: the syncopations of Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite, the fairy tale of Stravinsky’s Firebird, Tchaikovsky’s buoyant Capriccio Italien and, not least, the fairy tale “Ruslan and Lyudmila.” Once again, the Wild Philharmonic’s overwhelming splendor and captivating virtuosity are impressive. Hop on- go east!

• The Merel Quartet, founded 2002 play two of Mozart's “Haydn Quartets” • The quartet's 2nd Genuin CD • Highly renowned in Switzerland • The Merel Quartet has performed extensively in prestigious European venues and festivals • Booklet notes in English, German and French

Benedict Kloeckner, a prize winner at Verbier in 2012, has joined José Gallardo, a much sought-after chamber music pianist today – a musician who not only works with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Gidon Kremer, but also cultivates contacts with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm. They both shed light on the "Golden Era" of the violoncello with the stormy Sonata of the young Richard Strauss to the quiet as a whisper Fantasy Piece by Wolfgang Rihm.