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amarcord starts the new season with the release of the CD „Folks & Tales“ and a concert tour to New York and Houston. Over the 20 years of their career, the vocal ensemble from Leipzig has collected the world’s most beautiful folk songs in more than 1,600 concerts around the globe. A selection of popular,...

The festivities for the 20th anniversary of armarcord reached their long-awaited peak on 5 October with a gala concert in the Great Hall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus where the artists gave a musical review of their unique career. Their concerts are acclaimed all over the world. Even the Sydney Morning Herald recently went into raptures:...

We are now happy to represent one of the most important and best-known piano trios in the world: the Norwegian Grieg Trio. Their „playing was everything one wants from a trio: precise, balanced, beautifully nuanced and shaped in a way that lets a listener see into the music rather than through it.“ The New York...

Not only Christian Zacharias appreciates the exceptional enthusiasm and quality of the aspiring Cuarteto Arriaga. This ensemble, which combines Latin temperament with the balanced sound aesthetics of the European musical tradition, recently captivated the audience at the festivals „Quincena Musical de San Sebastián“ in Spain and „Movimentos“ in Wolfsburg. Together with the pianist Christian Zacharias,...

The new CD „Von den letzten Dingen“ of amarcord together with the Cappella Sagittariana Dresden has just been released. The record presents a representative choice of baroque funereal musics from Central Germany. It contains amongst others the CD-world premiere of a marvellous Penitential Psalm, composed around 1700 (anonymus). Furthermore the record contains pieces of Heinrich...

amarcord’s recent album „Rastlose Liebe“ („Restless Love“) has won the renowned ECHO Classical Award 2010 in the category „Choir Recording 18th/19th century“. With their 10th CD-production, the singers take a stroll through the musical Leipzig of the 19th century. This anniversary recording is a reverence to the hometown of the five world-class vocalists who obviously...

amarcord’s tenors Wolfram and Martin Lattke successfully sang the solo parts in Riccardo Chailly’s performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, on December 17th and 18th at the legendary „Teatro del Maggio Musicale“ in Florence as well as on January 7th and 8th in the singer’s hometown Leipzig. The press reaction was enthusiastic: Wolfram Lattke was certified...

The Norwegian Per Arne Glorvigen will be appearing in Hamburg on January 30th. Together with the NDR Symphony Orchestra under Kristjan Järvi he is performing Astor Piazzolla’s concerto for bandoneon and orchestra. Glorvigen is one of the most important bandoneon soloists these days and became known internationally through his concerts and tours with Gidon Kremer....

Restless Love A stroll though Romantic Leipzig – vocal music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Marschner, Mühling, Steinacker, and Zöllner amarcord (vocal ensemble) Wolfram Lattke, Martin Lattke – tenor Frank Ozimek – baritone Daniel Knauft, Holger Krause – bass Restless Love: searching, finding, singing With its tenth CD production, amarcord takes a stroll through the musical Leipzig...

The vocal ensemble amarcord has been performing since 1992 – this spring the five singers appeared on stage together for the 1000th time. They’ve celebrated this anniversary on their first major tour through the Netherlands with a concert in Rotterdam. On tour, amarcord gave concerts in nine different cities, with the highlight being their debut...