Domenico Gabrieli: Sonate en Sol Majeur, Grave - Anonyme vénitien: Concerto pour violoncelle - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto en do mineur RV 401 + Concerto en Do Majeur RV 400 + Concerto pour deux violoncelles RV 531 - Giuseppe Maria dall’ Abaco: Caprices pour violoncelle seul n°2 % Nr. 10 en sol mineur - Giorgio Antoniotto: Concerto en sol mineur - Niccolò Sanguinazzo: Ricercar en Do Majeur - Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Concerto en Ré Majeur WD 651 - Giuseppe Maria Jacchini - Concerto decimo per violoncello obligatto op. 4; Hanna Salzenstein, Cello, Orchestre Le Consort Théotime Langlois de Swarte; # Mirare 760; Aufnahme 09.2024, Veröffentlichung 14.02.2024 (68'35) - Rezension von Remy Franck ** (For English please scroll down)
Dies ist ein wertvolles Programm mit barocken Cellokonzerten, die zum Teil dem Stylus phantasticus zuzurechnen sind und von denen einige auf diesem Album erstmals aufgenommen wurden. Read More →
Christoph Demantius: Passion nach dem Evangelisten Johannes + Weissagung des Leiden und Streben Jesu Christi (Jesaja 53) - Hammerschmidt: Ach, Jesus stirbt, HaWV 659 + Erbarm dich mein, HaWV 139 + Unser Herr Jesus Christ, HaWV 661 + Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, HaWV 682 - Selichius: Meine Seele ist betrübt - Scheidt: Herzlich tut mich verlangen - Schein: O Lamm Gottes unschüldig - Schütz: O hilf, Christe Gottes Sohn, SWV 295; Ensemble Polyharmonique, Alexander Schneider; # cpo 555 583–2; Aufnahme 06.2022, Veröffentlichung 14.02.2025 (61’58) - Rezension von Guy Engels ** (For English please scroll down)
Er mag nicht so bekannt sein, dennoch gehört Christoph Demantius zu den herausragenden Komponisten der ausgehenden Renaissance wie etwa Heinrich Schütz oder Andreas Hammerschmidt. Es ist demnach programmatisch durchaus kohärent, wenn Alexander Schneider und sein Ensemble Polyharmonique auf ihrem aktuellen Album Demantius’ Johannes-Passion mit Chorwerken seiner Zeitgenossen ergänzen und dabei dramaturgisch die Leidensgeschichte Jesu darstellen, wie sie im frühen 17. Jahrhundert möglicherweise erzählt wurde. Read More →
Robert Schumann: Quartette für Streicher op. 41, Klavierquintett op. 44; Quatuor Strada (Pierre Fouchenneret, Ayako Tanaka, Violine, Lise Berthaud, Viola, François Salque, Violoncello), Théo Fouchenneret, Klavier; # b·records LBM071; Aufnahme 04.2024, Veröffentlichung 14.02.2025 (72'46) – Rezension von Uwe Krusch ** (For English please scroll down)
Um den Pianisten Théo Fouchenneret erweitert zeigt das Quatuor Strada beim Quintett von Robert Schumann, wie man sich mit Elan und energiegeladenem Einsatz dem Werk nähern kann, ohne die ganz große emotionale Karte zu ziehen. Im zweiten Satz wirkt ihr Tempo recht zügig, so als ob sie von der Satzbezeichnung dem ‘In Modo d’una Marcia’ mehr Beachtung geschenkt hätten als dem ebenfalls angegebenen ‘Un poco largamente’. Read More →
Elbphilharmonie
(c) Remy Franck
The Elbphilharmonie Visions festival with orchestral music written in the 21st century, jointly organized by the Elbphilharmonie and NDR, came to a successful end. Over the course of just over a week, seven concerts attracted a total of 13,157 people, resulting in an impressive average attendance rate of 92%. The organizers were especially pleased to welcome around 6,000 first-time visitors to the Elbphilharmonie, with 23.5% of the audience being under the age of 30.
Nach einer intensiven Wettbewerbswoche fand die dritte Ausgabe des Internationalen Wettbewerbs für Operndirigenten ihren Abschluss. Nach Beratung gaben die Jurymitglieder unter dem Vorsitz des Künstlerischen Leiters Stefano Pace ihre Entscheidungen bekannt: Read More →
The Alfred Street Baptist Church in Washington has canceled its annual Christmas event at the Kennedy Center. Here is the press release: « The After prayerful consideration, and discerning, the Alfred Street Baptist Church , one of the oldest and largest African American Baptist churches in the nation, has made the difficult decision to cancel hosting its annual Christmas performance at the Kennedy Center. Read More →
In schools run by the American government, all books dealing in any way with diversity or inclusion are withdrawn. The list of books prohibited under AH Trump’s directives continues to grow. These include « books that are likely to promote gender ideology or the ideology of equality in the face of discrimination », it says. It has not yet been announced whether these books will be publicly burned. On the 10th May 1933, the Nazis had burned books in over 70 German cities.
Kennedy Center, Washington
Last week was a dark one for the arts life in the US. AH Trump took control of one of the most important and until now nonpartisan arts institutions in the country, the Kennedy Center in Washington. Read More →
Czech conductor Vladimír Válek has died at the age of 89. Válek led the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011 and also conducted the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He was the Principal Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic from 2004 until 2007. Over his career, he worked with top ensembles, including the Czech Philharmonic and Japan’s Osaka Symphony Orchestra. Read More →
Polish conductor Łukasz Borowicz is among the musicians honored at this year's International Classical music Awards with the album Urlicht featuring
Samuel Hasselhorn and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra. Jakub Puchalski from the ICMA Jury member Polskie Radio Chopin made the following interview with him.
Lukasz Borowicz
(c) Bruno Fidrych
Seeing your many CDs, one can trace an idea behind them. A discovery or rediscovery of interesting, beautiful repertoire, often once well-known but later forgotten. The same one can say about your concert programs. You must be extremely hungry for new music.
My interest in unknown music started very early. Since the childhood, once I started to collect CDs. It was at elementary school in my early years. And after getting to know the standard repertoire, I started my own research to discover new composers, new pieces, new performers. And somehow it went naturally, because when I started my conducting career, I was often assisting to many important productions at the Polish orchestras. First of all, at the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra where I was assistant to Antoni Wit, who was recording a lot of Polish music and he was promoting an unknown music, as well as the orchestra, as well the places I assisted too, at the Budapest Festival Orchestra, also at Teatr Wielki. Read More →
