Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

The combination of flute, viola and harp instruments is one of the most unusual and delightful chamber music combinations, as the Trio Partout brilliantly proves with their album "Play of Colors". Probably the first work in music history for this line-up was by Claude Debussy, who composed his "Sonate pour fl�te, alto et harpe" in 1915 under the impact of the beginning of the First World War. Only a year later, the British composer Arnold Bax published his "Elegiac Trio", which acts as a kind of dream sequence through the ostinato harp arpeggios and lyrical elements of viola and flute. Harald Genzmer is considered one of the key composers of German music after the Second World War, and in 1947 wrote the Trio for flute, viola and harp, whose impressionistic sound images seemingly refer to Debussy. The Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud uses a variety of modern playing techniques in his work "Sydenham Music" from 2011.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Remy Ballot and the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, enacted at Bruckner's place of work, the basilica of St. Florian in Upper Austria – an extraordinary combination of artistic abundance which becomes manifest for the fourth time in a CD release with the Gramola label. This time the annual festival Brucknertage centered around “the Sixth”, and once again the musical youth of the Upper Austrian Symphonic Youth Orchestra enjoyed the great honor to give a celebrated performance in this one-of-a-kind setting. The juvenile vigor and professionalism joined by the intuition of Remy Ballot provide for some goose bumps and append another worthy opus to this series which has been critically acclaimed and honored with numerous prestigious international awards.

Austrian clarinet player Simon Reitmaier and Auner Quartet dedicate this album to three clarinet quintets from different epochs. The Clarinet Quintet K. 581 by W. A. Mozart counts as the first work of this genre, but at the same time is already a highlight of its kind. Originally composed for his fellow mason Anton Stadler and his bassett clarinet, this work exemplifies the significance of Mozarts oeuvre, influencing his posterity until today. As such, the Larghetto of Mozarts quintet inspired composer and organist Ernst Ludwig Leitner, born 1943 in Wels, Austria, to compose his clarinet quintet as part of his series “Metamorphoses after W. A. Mozart” that premiered in 1996. Max Regers clarinet quintet is also inspired by Mozart, as e. g. the fourth movement, being a variation movement, suggests.

The Bach Choir Salzburg was founded in 1983 and soon came to prominence as one of Austria's leading vocal ensembles. During the last decade it has additionally acquired an international reputation. Since 2003 it's artistic director has been Alois Gla�ner. The choir appears regularly at the Salzburg Festival, where it has been acclaimed at numerous concerts as well as in opera productions. The Bach Choir Salzburg has appeared with many outstanding conductors and with orchestras of the eminence of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata, and more. With this release, "Rejoice," featuring organist Wolfgang Kogert, the Bach Choir presents selected works for choir and organ, including the eponymous 'Rejoice with the lamb' Op. 30 by Benjamin Britten, 'O sacrum convivium' by Olivier Messiaen, Charles Ives' 'Psalm 135,' and more. The great stylistic diversity of one of the leading Austrian vocal ensembles comes into it's own with this release.