Friederike Chylek, born in Starnberg, began playing the piano and the recorder at age seven. Whilst still attending secondary school in Stockdorf and Gräfelfing, she began her artistic education in Munich with the harpsichordist Michael Eberth. Starting in the year 2000, she studied harpsichord and figured bass at the world renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with professors including Jesper Christensen, wtih Rudolf Lutz and Edoardo Torbianelli. She performs regularly in numerous concert halls in Germany and abroad and is a welcome guest at such select festivals as the Cadenza Baroque Days in Berlin, the Handel Festival in Göttingen and the Festival Maj z Muzyka Dawna, Wroclas, amongst many others. With the present album, Friederike Chylek puts an end to prejudices against English music - England was long denigrated as the "Land without music" - bringing time to a standstill with works from the Golden Age of Virginal Music, numerous performance and compositional techniques of which provided decisive impulses for the development of European keyboard music.

The German mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster is today considered one of the most important representatives of her voice range and can be heard internationally in all the major opera houses and concert halls, in operas, song recitals and in concert. “Ms. Schuster explores the beauties of the romantic Lied literature on this program with sensitivity and enthusiasm, together with the empathetic Markus Schlemmer. Recorded in the dreamlike atmosphere of the Eppan Lied Summer Festival, this is a top-class interpretation for lovers of German Romanticism!” (Brigitte Fassbaender)

On her first CD for Oehms Classics, Andrea Benecke occupies herself with a composer who was justifiably called a universal genius during his own time: Johann Mattheson. Mattheson composed no few than six operas, 33 oratorios, orchestral works and chamber music. For this recording, Andrea Benecke consciously chose a modern concert grand piano, for this instrument brings out the singing quality of Mattheson's style.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Mezzo-soprano Katharina Magiera has recorded several live CDs as a member of the Frankfurt Opera, and now presents this solo album accompanied by guitarist Christopher Brandt. Magiera has chosen a bouquet of Goethe lieder, set by such composers as Hugo Wolff, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Robert Schumann. This album was created in cooperation with the Goethehaus in Frankfurt, where Magiera will be presenting concerts in the future.

Time Transcending is a musical journey through the world of violin playing. It ranges from the characteristic universal order of Bach's Chaconne, through the agitating drama of the Ballade by Ysae and the motifs of Berio's Sequenza repeating themselves under high tension, to the ascending movement of Paganini's famous Caprice No. 24 through the Rochberg Variations, suffering fragmentation like a cubist painting. It continues with the virtuoso variations of a melancholy Irish folksong, "The Last Rose," colliding onto the destructive and corrosive power of the clockwork of Bre�m, finally reaching it's end in the sounds of devotion of the last movement of Messiaen's "Quatuor pour le fin de Temps," dying away at a high altitude.

One of his most popular works, Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, op. 90 (‘Italian’), composed while on an Italian journey in 1835, contains within itself that period’s general enthusiasm for Italy. In the spirit of Bach, the Reformation Symphony is infused with the spirit of baroque music. It is marked by contrapuntal density and constructed on church-music themes that already had their place in Bach’s musical consciousness. The internationally recognized Columbian-born conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada recently concluded his brilliant five-year tenure with the Tonkünstler Orchestra.

Telemann’s legacy is extremely extensive and comprises all the customary musical genres of the time. Typical of Telemann are cantablie melodies, inventively applied timbres and, especially in his late works, unusual harmonic effects. The instrumental works frequently reveal the strong influence of French and Italian music, and occasionally folkloristic Polish influences. Stefan Schilli, solo oboist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony, has strongly committed himself to this repertoire; this forms the basis for the creation of the present CD with Schilli’s “Accademia giocosa”.

• OehmsClassics proudly presents, with NUEVO TANGONUEVO, the first series of world premieres of theleading Argentine composers in this field: Nisinman,Ortiz and Viera. _x000D_ • These are by no means the usualtangos in the style of Carlos Gardel, for example, butgenuine “concert tangos” intended for listening enjoymentrather than for dancing. _x000D_ • In Facundo Agudin,born in Buenos Aires, this music has found a fantasticspokesman who interprets the melancholy of the tangoargentinoin an impressive manner.

Avery modern concert hall has been opened in Blaibach in the Bavarian Forest. During the preliminary stages, however, this ambitious project of the baritone Thomas E. Bauer and pianist Uta Hielscher had to struggle against opposition from the populace. But now the construction is already attracting it's first tourists. With this CD, Oehms Classics proudly presents an entire series of Opuses No. 1, intended to mark the beginning of the "cultural period" in Blaibach.

The B minor Cello Concerto, op. 104, one of the seminal works in the concerto literature for cellists, coupled with the 'Dumky' Trio in e, op. 90, a work of similar standing in the chamber music literature, both from the pen of Anton�n Dvor�k, are the focus of Sebastian Klinger's third Oehms CD. Mr. Klinger, solo cellist of the BRSO, is in the fine company of Lisa Batiashvili and Milana Chernyavska in the latter work, and fronts the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbru�cken Kaiserslautern, Simon Gaudenz conducting, in the former. "A revelation. A superb Dvor�k interpretation." (Luxemburger Wort)

This CD, Iskandar Widjaja's second for OehmsClassics, presents works for solo violin by Bach and two violin concertos with the Berlin Camerata._x000D_ Regarded as one of the most interesting violinists of his generation, Mr. Widjaja, a talented violinist with Indonesian roots, is unswervingly pursuing his own course and knows exactly where he's headed. His playing style, imagination, sound, impeccable technique, wide repertoire and charisma” has been praised by many._x000D_ “a true force of nature” - The Strad

Xiaoming Han began his remarkable career in 1980, at age 17, as principal horn of the China Central Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1985 Han has been the principal horn of the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he has been frequently invited to perform as guest principal horn with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Dusseldorf Opera House Orchestras as well as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

The piano concertos of Fr�d�ric Chopin are amongst the greatest and best-known orchestral works of the 19th century. It is thus no wonder that every pianist would like to play them and, of course, record them as well. Joseph-Maurice Weder, winner of the SWISS AMBASSADOR'S AWARD 2013 in London, has achieved this in the unusual ensemble of the piano sextet. Chopin Concertos with Joseph-Maurice Weder and the Berlin Camerata. During the 19th century, the practice of transcribing orchestral works for smaller ensembles was widespread- in the age prior to recordings, this was an indispensible way of helping compositions achieve their breakthrough with the public.