Classical Music

Classical Music

• The young and talented French Hélène Tysman presents an all-Chopin program, her second such for Oehms.

Classical Music

Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64, while labeled as a symphony by the composer, is a tone poem which forgoes the traditional form of the multi-movement symphony and is made up of twenty-two continuous portions of music. This is Strauss’s largest scale non-operatic work, calling for 125 performers in all. Strauss was inspired to write this work after he lost his way heading up a mountain in a storm. The work in its entirety was completed in 1915, and dedicated to Count Nicolaus Seebach, director of the Royal Opera in Dresden. Conductor Sebastian Weigle has an impressive list of accomplishments to his name- founding the “Berliner Blaserquintett,” artistic director of the “Kammerchor Berlin,” “Professor of French Horn at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin, and now the General Music Director of the Oper Frankfurt. His previous recordings with the ensemble have gained him critical recognition.

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Concerts with internationally established artists and master classes for highly motivated young talent have been a wonderful annual reality in Starnberg since 2000 and in Seefeld/ Tirol since 2009, initiated by Albanian-born violinist Rudens Turku, who continues to direct them in serious yet most congenial fashion. "Souvenirs" was created in public gratitude and as a kind of homage to these artistic gatherings. The instrumentalists, some of the finest of their generation on their respective instruments, are heard with Mr. Turku in works of Doppler, Paganini, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.

The Lutenist Axel Wolf and the Saxophonist Hugo Siegmeth - Who Join Forces Here - Are Two Musicians with Roots in Completely Different Musical Disciplines. A Virtuoso on the Lute and Theorbo, Axel Wolf Specializes in the Renaissance and Baroque Periods, Whereas Hugo Siegmeth, Saxophonist and Composer, Is An Expert on Modern Jazz and Contemporary Music. Although Several Centuries Lie Between the Heydays of Both Musical Styles, with 'Flow', These Two Musicians Both Place Special Focus on Improvisation: Involvement in the Surprising Moment and Spontaneous Interaction.

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Richard Strauss’ Metamorphoses for 23 solo strings, his last great orchestral work, was given its premiere on 25 January 1946 in Zürich, Switzerland under the direction of the work’s dedicatee, the eminent Swiss musician Paul Sacher (1906-99). + Here, the conductor Eugen Jochum (1902-87) conducts the dynamic Bavarian Radio Symphony, the orchestra he helped found. + The Concerto for Oboe in D, also one of the composer‘s late works, received its premiere a mere one month after Metamorphoses, also in Zürich. + The performers here are once again the BRSO and their solo oboist Stefan Schilli.

A true Platti Renaissance was initiated with the first two CDs that Sebastian Hess recorded for OehmsClassics. This CD, made as a co-production with BR Klassik, was recorded on August 2012 at St. Jacobus Kirche in Grosslangheim. Axel Wolf accompanies Sebastian Hess on the lute. Volume 3 is supplemented with solo sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi.

For her second CD on OehmsClassics, Sophia Brommer walks onto the operatic stage, presenting with Dirk Kaftan and the Augsburg Philharmonic a smartly conceived bouquet of arias ranging from Bellini and Donizetti to Verdi and Leoncavallo, French opera arias from Gounod, Bizet and Massenet, and all the way to “Glitter and Be Gay” from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Ms. Brommer’s many appearances on stage at the Augsburg Theater in Germany 2007-13 included starring in the roles of Konstanze, Pamina, Lucia, Liu, La Folie, Micaela, Lulu, Gilda, Violetta, Donna Anna and Mimi.

The French-Armenian violinist Chouchane Siranossian is one of the most interesting talents of her generation. + Very open to present-day developments and experienced in historically informed performance practice, she has made a name for herself as a “universal musician” in circles ranging from baroque music to New Music. + It is therefore unsurprising that Ms. Siranossian has conceived a mixture of baroque (Stamitz, Leclair, Rust) and modern music (Tanguy, El-Khoury, Naregatsi) for her debut OehmsClassics release.

Classical Music

Classical Music