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 the songs are dear to the heart of the five singers from Leipzig during 27 years on stage and compiled on this album.

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In Hamburg they will be on the 8th of november wit pieces by Bach, Prokofiev, Bernstein u.a. in the chamber music hall of the Elbphilharmonie and on the 15th february 2020 together with the actor Wolfram Berger in the „Kaistudio 1“ of the Elbphilharmonie.

“Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart without piano. Accordion virtuoso Viviane Chassot makes it possible. With her new CD, which was produced in collaboration with Deutschlandfunk, she takes a fascinating new look on Mozart. The Swiss artist has transferred three Mozart piano concertos to the accordion with respect for the original, fantasy and an unerring feeling for the expressive possibilities of her instrument. The art of songful playing is particularly close to her heart, an aspect where the accordion is perhaps even superior to the piano. Together with Camerata Bern, she produces an unheard-of sound result.” Deutschlandfunk

Here you will find a video from the recording session and here a portrait of the artist in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German).

The recording was selected as the album of the week by concerti magazine at the beginning of May: “The Leipzig male quintet amarcord is in its prime, you go weak at the knees after the ‘Mahagonny-Songspiel’, already”.

The magazine Pizzicato is enthusiastic: „Fontaine has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece of transcription, and the Zadigs play ravishingly“. Also RBB Kulturradio has just recommended the CD and rounded off its review, referring to the title: „The Trio Zadig doesn’t make a debut somewhere ‚in between‘, but at the top of the young piano trios“. An artistic video on this CD, which breathes the cinematic flair of the 1940s and 1950s, is available here.

amarcord and Calmus will perform the musical program for the Leipzig Debate on June 16, 2019, 500 years after the historical event at the original venue, the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, as part of the Leipzig Bach Festival.