This debut CD with an unusual twist presents the Frankfurt based cellist and pianist Elena Gaponenko, in a program of solo and duo pieces by Igor Stravinsky, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Adrien-Fran�ois Servais and Niccol� Paganini. The duo pieces involve a level of studio wizardry with Gaponenko double tracked playing both instrumental parts.

On her new release, featuring music by Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, the young soprano Mirella Hagen reveals to us why she has won numerous competitions and why she was able to make her successful debut in Bayreuth. With the Lieder by Ludwig. Thuille, both she and her piano partner Kerstin M�rk show that there is much more wonderful song literature out there than anyone can dream of. From the serene "Hat gesagt" to the swirling "Waldm�dchen", they divulge to us the romantic side of a maiden's heart.

Hailing from Frescia, cellits Paolo Bonomini offers a survey of 200 years of musical Italy on his Genuin debut release. The First Prizewinner at the 2016 Leipzig Bach Competition performs works by Joseph Dall'Abaco, Luigi Boccherini, Alfredo Piatti, and Luigi Dallapiccola. In terms of the program, we could hardly imagine a more rich and varied overview, and the young, internationally-successful soloists's playing more than fulfills our expectations - from his lean and buoyant sound in the playful and exuberant Baroque works, to his crystal-clear articulation and bold risk-taking in the modern selections. A brilliant and highly promising debut!

Genuin presents the debut recording of tuba player Andreas Martin Hofmeir, prize winner of the prestigious German Music Competition. In cooperation with the German Music Council, he presents witty, stimulating works by Jorg Duda, Gisbert Nother and Kjell Roikjer - all of them world premiere recordings.

• Benefit CD. • Proceeds go to Otjikondo, a children's music project in Namibia • Pianist and pedagogue Friedrich-Wilhelm Schnurr placed • his art at the service of humanity • Schnurr plays with singing tone and a broad color spectrum. • Many reasons for wishing this CD great success!

GENUIN fans have already admired the horn playing skills of Christoph E� on many occasions, including in the albums of German hornsound, the celebrated ensemble founded by Christoph E�. Now the solo hornist of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra presents four effervescent, lively and soulful concertos by Mozart with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, perfectly laid out and light as a feather. With his colleagues from German hornsound, he plays-as an encore, so to speak-a quartet of Madsen with tongue-in-cheek and breathtaking virtuosity. Horn couldn't be better! Christoph E� is considered today one of the leading hornists of his generation. In addition to his work as solo horn of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, he is a laureate of numerous international competitions and also appears as a sought-after soloist and chamber musician.

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That a young violinist dares to present a CD that exclusively features contemporary music is unusual enough. That, however, her program selection is so successful that this GENUIN CD goes beyond all aspects of tonal beauty and all violinist bravura, exhibiting almost meditative qualities, is simply marvelous. Zhi-Jong Wang spans a bridge between the East and West, between Sofia Gubaidulina and Bright Sheng, between Arvo P�rt and Lera Auerbach. However, she does not fall into the trap of globalization- leveling everything, but instead follows a wholly individual, striking path. Highest marks for repertoire and interpretation!

"• Surely only a pianist who has penetrated to the depths of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier for decades, artistically and pedagogically, can afford to offer this milestone of piano literature as her debut CD. Gerlinde Otto – Professor at the Academy of Music in Weimar – is this • artist, presenting the second volume of Bach's monumental cycle as her first production on GENUIN. She plays vibrantly and with a big, singing sound."

In a new collaboration with ensemble Trio Ex Aequo, this release which features Beethoven’s piano trios, is the first in a series of three. Matthias Moosdorf is the cellist of the Leipzig String Quartet, one of the world’s premier quartets. He has performed with the quartet in more than 60 countries on all continents and can be heard in over 80 prize-winning CD recordings. He has won four Echo-Klassik awards.

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Dreams, illusions, nightmares, tender and formidable images: all this can be heard on the new, third GENUIN CD by the Japanese flutist Atsuko Koga. From the first lost melodies by her fellow countryman Akira Miyoshi and the yearning musical arcs of Carl Maria von Weber to the playful, even euphoric figurations of Bohuslav Martinu, Koga and her partners succeed in taking us into ever-new musical and spiritual landscapes.

Lieder and Pictures, featuring 12 Schubert-Liszt transcriptions and Mussorgsky's greatest piano cycle, is the young pianist Mikhail Mordvinov’s GENUIN debut CD. + Mr. Mordvinov was first propelled onto the international stage when he won the 12th Robert Schumann Competition (Zwickau ‘96) and the 6th Schubert Competition (Dortmund ‘97). + His busy touring schedule includes performances at the world’s major concert venues. + Reviews have noted his virtuosity, clarity, lyricism and confidence.

Winner of the 2015 German Music Competition, clarinetist Bettina Aust presents this new release alongside her brother, pianist Robert Aust. For Bettina’s debut album, she has chosen a varied programs, immersing the listener in a kaleidoscope of styles, including pieces from composers Francaix, Burgmuller, Widmann, Bernstein, and Brahms. “The two young musicians supply from a performance that is a huge thunderstorm of sound feels…they mingled rapid pace with crystal-clear sound…” (Der Tagesspiegel)