Yellow marks the Amaryllis Quartett's fifth release, following the award-winning White. Similar to the first release, the phenomenal ensemble is performing music from the First and Second Viennese School, this time showcasing Mozart and Schoenberg. Joining the project are exceptional young soprano Katharina Persicke and ARD prizewinner Tomoko Akasaka.

This new release from Trio Enescu follows their acclaimed debut album with GENUIN. Recently, the ensemble won First Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Helexpo in Thessaloniki and Prize of the Austrian Brahms Society. This album features early piano trios by their namesake, George Ensecu, as well as Anton Arensky. Enescu’s work is especially intriguing, as it shows how passionate music written by a seventeen year old can be.

The Goldberg Variations are one of the greatest works of piano literature, and a test of virtuosity for any concert pianist. Marie Rosa Gunter has chosen these works for her debut album, presented here. Marie Rosa Gunter has already won first prize in multiple competitions, and this release marks the start of what will surely be a remarkable career.

This new release is the first album in a new series from GENIUN which showcases the winners of the ARD International Music Competition. Soprano Emalie Savoy is the 2015 winner of the ARD International Music Competition. This is her debut album. Savoy has been praised for the “gleaming richness” of her voice by the New York Times. Her warmness will carry listeners away as she sings Ravel’s Sheherazade and Dvorak’s Song to the Moon from Rusalka. Ms. Savoy is a native of Albany New York. She completed the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and holds both a Bachelor and Master of Music degree from The Julliard School. She also frequently performs with various opera houses, notably as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Giulietta in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Norah in William Shield’s The Poor Soldier.

The debut CD is always something very special for a young musician. the oboist Thomas Hecker, winner of the German music competition in 2008 and now solo oboist of the deutsche's Symphonie Orchester Berlin, ensures that his first genuine CD is also something extraordinary for the listener. masterfully he juggles repertoire, skillfully combining the baroque and modern together, as well as the serious and the amusing. his clever program compilation is exceeded only by the brilliant, warm-hearted performance of the young musicians. from Couperin to Berio, from Handel to Isang Yun - glowing chamber music!

The Saxon Wind Philharmonic, along with director Thomas Clamor are a guarantee for thrilling releases. This most recent release transports listeners to the world of expansive spaces and ethereal sounds. Joining with Leipzig University Organist Daniel Beilschmidt, the orchestra performs works from the Renaissance to the present that all have their roots in church music. Whether it is Gabrieli or Guilmant, Bach or Peeters, the winds and organ merge together into a single instrument, transforming a listening space into a cathedral...

Harpsichordist Jean-Christophe Dijoux is the International Bach Competition 2014 Winner in the Harpsichord Category, as well as the 7th International Telemann Competition in 2013. The works that Dijoux has chosen take the listener on a journey through Baroque virtuosity with works by Handel, Buxtehude, Bohm, Bach, Telemann, Mattheson, and CPE Bach. This release was recorded on two harpsichords built by Matthias Kramer.

This new release is Berlin-based saxophonist Ruth Velten’s debut release with GENIUN. A versatile musician, she has compiled modern classics like New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich with 21st century gems like Jodlowski’s Mixtion. Especially notable is the inclusion of Gordon Kampe’s work, Ruth’s Piece, which was written for the saxophonist herself, and is receiving its world premiere recording here.

This eclectic collection features works by Antoine de Lhoyer, Antonin Dvorak, and Edward Elgar, bridging the gap from the Baroque to now. This release is Basel-based chamber orchestra I TEMPI’s debut recording. The ensemble performs these works on period instruments. Internationally award winning guitarist Stephan Schmidt joins the ensemble for Antoine de Lhoyer’s Guitar Concerto.

This new release is the debut recording of violist Guy Ben-Ziony. Featuring works by Telemann, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Wiesenberg, Ben-Ziony proves his talent with this rarely performed repertoire. Especially notable is Wisenberg’s composition “Monodialogue,” which was dedicated to Ben-Ziony’s teacher,T. Zimmermann.

Only a few chamber music ensembles of the world-famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra are allowed to have the addition "Gewandhaus" in their name. That obliges! The musicians of the Gewandhaus Brass Quintett are all award-winning brass players and present the multifaceted diversity of their instruments with unusual programmes ranging from swinging baroque to jazzy groove. Their latest release focuses on compositions written especially for the quintet. Compositions in the traditional style, onomatopoetic and rousing pictures by the Californian Kevin McKee, tonal experiments in the work of Steffen Schleiermacher or melancholic-jazzy harmonies with a touch of melancholy. The fundamentally different sounding world premiere recordings convey an impression of the colorful complexity of the brass sound.

Full of joyful esprit Robert Schumann wrote his Davidsb�ndlert�nze: A tender, lively, thoughtful, romantic wedding-eve party! With this the pianist Nikola Avramovic, prize winner of numerous competitions, opens his new GENUIN album with piano music of the 19th century. Alongside Schumann, the programme includes Chopin and Liszt, and Avramovic gives this virtuoso, glittering yet profound music the breath it needs: From Schumann's contrasting characters Florestan and Eusebius to Chopin's highly emotional ballads and Liszt's multi-layered arrangements of folk music. Really large arches are created here!

You have never heard of Paolo Litta? The pianist Michael Sch�fer will teach you better, because for 14 years the pianist has been digging up untiringly forgotten works in his Edition Un!erh�rt at GENUIN. With the concert trilogy by Paolo Litta, he and violinist Ilona Then-Bergh have discovered a particularly exciting major work of symbolism. In the successively published parts "Der Minne-See", "Die entschleierte G�ttin" and "Der Tod als Fiedler", literature, art and music are interwoven into a total work of art. From Georges Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte, Paolo Litta took the setting and from Paul Gauguin the three-part form, which simultaneously symbolises the course of human life, birth, life and death. Richard Wagner's leitmotif flows into his work, combining all three parts. The music is very poetic, almost innocently playful in the first part "Der Minne-See", dramatic in the second part, in which the man's psyche struggles with suffering and doubt, and highly virtuoso in the last part, in which death approaches inexorably. On this recording, it is impossible not to hear how much Ilona Then-Bergh and Michael Sch�fer merge with the composer's intentions. A discovery not to be missed!

The work featured in the Octavians’ GENUIN release is 700 years old: the Kreuzleich by Heinrich “Frauenlob” von Meissen. The multi-award-winning a cappella ensemble with three countertenors takes on this fascinating work in a new guise, as a new composition by Karsten Gundermann for soloists, chamber choir, and orchestra. The result is sensational: a lively mixture of age-old and new, of archaic sounds and orchestral colors, sung and performed at the highest level. In terms of repertoire and entertainment value, highest ratings for this total work of art that inspires at every moment!

On his new GENUIN release, Jeremias Schwarzer allows his recorder to dance: Le Ballet imaginaire is the name of this production that brings together Baroque masterpieces by Bach, Ch�deville, Telemann, and Handel. Schwarzer's ideally-matched partner, who is one of his instrument's leading exponents, is Ralf Waldner on the harpsichord. The two artists not only dance through this enchanting and spirited music with lightness and vitality, but also make it sing and speak. Originals and counterfeits, kings and opera princes, love songs and sparkling virtuosity - a ballet full of passions!