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Together with the pianist Elisaveta Blumina and the cellist Peter Bruns the new CD of the  Saxophonquartet clair-obscur will be published by Capriccio on 7th February 2020! They recorded chamber music by the Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin (*1937). You can pre-order the CD now!

Just in time before the advent and christmas season the 4. Christmas-CDfrom amarcord turned-up. An audio-CD full of joy. 62 times they are singing from joy and laughing, also eleven „Hallelujas“ and twelve spanisch „Hurrays“. The 24 tracks promise pure christmas joy and are therefore a daily musical companion through the advent season. Most of...

For the first time the young and repeatedly rewarded percussion-duo DoubleBeats worked together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and capture with the program „BachBeats“ new soundscapes with arrangements from pieces by Johann Sebastian und Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Two concerts were at the St. Elisabeth-Church in Berlin on the 19th & 20th october.

Two times the saxophonquartett clair-obscur will be in Hamburg und Luxembourg: On the 20th october with Saint-Saëns‘ Le carnaval des animaux in Marnach and in march 2020 cooperation with the Philharmonie Luxembourg with „El Dorado“ a  musically spectacle for the young audience. In Hamburg they will be on the 8th of november wit pieces by Bach, Prokofiev,...

The first CD with compositions by Per Arne Glorvigen himself is out now! Together with the cellist Andreas Brantelid and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra they’re on a journey through the cities Buenos Aires, Paris and Chicago. In his compositions he tries to point out the different facets of those metropolises and is telling stories like...

Just in: the new CD by accordionist Viviane Chassot with Camerata Bern on Sony Classical: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concertos K. 413, 450 & 595. After a selection of piano concertos by Joseph Haydn, also released by Sony Classical in 2017, here’s the versatile accordionist’s next step into the world of the First Viennese...

At the Kurt Weill Fest Dessau amarcord, sopranos Ute Gfrerer and Winnie Böwe as well as the Ensemble Modern conducted by HK Gruber performed the “Mahagonny-Songspiel” and the “Chansons des Quais” (in a new version commissioned by the Kurt Weill Foundation). A studio production has now been released on the Ensemble Modern label. The recording...

The Trio Zadig from Paris, who have been awarded eleven international prizes, presents their debut CD under the title „Something in Between“. The three musicians from France and the USA deal with their origins on this CD. The exceptionally gripping recording features the overture to „Candide“ as well as a fantasy on themes from Leonard...

The first joint project of the renowned Leipzig vocal ensembles amarcord and Calmus has been published by Carus: The focus is on Antoine Brumel’s splendid twelve-part Mass, which is said to have been performed in the St. Thomas Church on the occasion of the famous Leipzig Debate between Martin Luther and the papal representative Johannes...

Isn’t it true that the sounds of the harp soar directly up to heaven? The program idea of the splendid young French harpist Agnès Clément, who won the ARD competition in 2016, is absolutely compelling: a production featuring music that renders homage to the birds. On her first GENUIN CD, she gazes at the nightingale,...