This new release presents Chinese poetry in song. The Polish mezzo, Anna Krawczuk, a fellow of the Ministry of Culture and National Legacy of Poland,...

This new release presents Chinese poetry in song. The Polish mezzo, Anna Krawczuk, a fellow of the Ministry of Culture and National Legacy of Poland, graduated "with distinction" in singing and choral conducting from the Warsaw Academy of Music Frederic Chopin. Anxious to perfect herself in the world of Lied, she has been studying at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe since 2010 in the Lied class of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll. Tenor Andreas Kalmbach received his musical training at the University of Music in Würzburg, where he studied singing with Prof. Christian Elsner. In addition, he attended master classes with Michael Volle, Prof. Helmut Deutsch, Prof. Siegfried Jerusalem, and Gerold Huber, among others. For some time he has been artistically supervised by Prof. Siegfried Jerusalem and Prof. Henriette Meyer-Ravenstein. Tenor Shichao Cheng was born in Zhang Pu, China in 1990. He started his musical education at the China Conservatory of Music from 2008 to 2013 and received his Bachelor of Music there. From 2015 to 2017 he studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Prof. Stephan Kohlenberg. The vocalists are beautifully accompanied here by pianist Fan Yang.