Casal Quartett – Russian Treasures
Artists: Casal Quartett
Title: Russian Treasures – Titz – Glasunow – Tschaikowsky
Catalogue No.: SM 241
Release: 02.12.2016
Description
Decades later Alexander Glazunov made big sensation as a young composing dare devil. During his magnificent 1st symphony he also wrote the 5 Novellettes op. 15. The witty, energetic set of masterpieces is full of technical refinements and glamorous esprit, but also filled with deep emotional devotion. Within them one breathes the spirit and the joy of discovery of the Petersburg salons.
Russian chambermusic triumphed in Tchaikovsky’s successfull quartet debut and finally caught up with the musical capitals of Europe. Its overwhelming orchestral sonority meets Russian melos and passionate virtuos vitality. With its latest CD, the casalQuartett presents known and newly discovered gems from the musical treasure chest of Old Russia.
Tracklist
| Quartett Nr. 3 a-Moll | Anton Ferdinand Titz | |
| Siciliano affetuoso – Allegro di molto agitato | 6:45 | |
| Romance | 3:59 | |
| Polonaise | 4:29 | |
| Novelettes op. 15 | Alexander Konstantinowitsch Glaszunow | |
| Alla Spagnola | 6:35 | |
| Orientale | 3:48 | |
| Interludium in modo antico | 4:25 | |
| La Valse | 6:05 | |
| All’ Ungherese | 7:59 | |
| Quartett Nr. 1 D-Dur op.11 | Peter Ijitsch Tschaikowsky | |
| Moderato e semplice | 10:53 | |
| Andante cantabile | 6:48 | |
| Scherzo: Allegro non tanto | 3:50 | |
| Finale: Allegro giusto | 9:00 |
Max Müller & Münchner Symphoniker – Der Nussknacker
Künstler: Münchner Symphoniker
Max Müller
Titel: Auszüge aus “Der Nussknacker – Geschichte eines Nussknackers”
Katalog Nr: SM 252
Veröffentlichung: 02.12.2016
Produktbeschreibung
Auf dieser Doppel-CD präsentieren die Münchner Symphoniker sich unter der Leitung von Chefdirigent Kevin John Edusei mit Auszügen aus Peter Tschaikowskys beliebter Ballettmusik „Der Nussknacker“. Auf der zweiten CD findet sich die „Geschichte eines Nussknackers“ von Alexandre Dumas, einer weniger bekannten Nacherzählung von E.T.A. Hoffmanns berühmtem „Original-Nussknacker“. Dumas‘ Version der Nussknacker-Geschichte diente als Vorlage für die Ballettmusik von Tschaikowsky.
Tauchen Sie mit dieser Doppel CD ein in die Welt dieser wunderbaren Musik und der Geschichte eines Nussknackers und lassen Sie sich verzaubern: Erleben Sie Ausschnitte aus Peter Tschaikowskys „Der Nussknacker“, einem der populärsten Ballettstücke, mit Texten von Alexandre Dumas, gelesen vom Schauspieler und Sänger Max Müller, bekannt als Michi Mohr aus der beliebten ZDF-Serie „Die Rosenheim-Cops“.
Als eines der vier Symphonieorchester der Stadt sind die Münchner Symphoniker der Stadt München und ihrer Musiktradition intensiv verbunden. „Der Klang unserer Stadt“ ist für das Orchester Motto und Auftrag zugleich. Gleichrangig neben der Klassik pflegen die Münchner Symphoniker hochkarätige Produktionen aus den Bereichen Oper, Filmmusik und Show. Pro Jahr stehen rund 110 Konzerte auf dem Programm, in denen das Publikum das breite Repertoire und den extrovertierten Musizierstil des Orchesters erleben kann.
Ein Euro pro CD geht an die Spendenplattform der Stadtsparkasse München www.gut-fuer-muenchen.de
Tracklist
| CD 1 – Die Musik | |
| Auszüge aus dem 1. Akt | |
| Ouvertüre miniature (Allegro giusto) | 03:20 |
| Vorrede, in welcher erklärt wird, wie der Verfasser gezwungen wurde, die Geschichte vom Nürnberger Nussknacker zu erzählen | 05:12 |
| Marsch der Zinnsoldaten | 02:35 |
| Auszüge aus dem 3. Akt | |
| Im Zauberschloss von Zuckerburg und Marie (Klärchen) und der Prinz | 08:24 |
| Schokolade – Spanischer Tanz (Boléro) | 01:10 |
| Kaffee – Arabischer Tanz | 03:16 |
| Tee – Chinesischer Tanz | 01:11 |
| Trepak – Russischer Tanz | 01:10 |
| Tanz der Rohrflöten | 02:33 |
| Mutter Gigogne und die Hampelmänner | 02:40 |
| Blumenwalzer | 06:52 |
| Pas de deux. Intrada | 04:53 |
| Variation1: Tarantella | 00:45 |
| Variation 2: Tanz der Zuckerfee | 02:14 |
| Coda | 01:28 |
| Finale und Apotheose | 04:40 |
| Total | 53:44 |
| CD 2 – Die Geschichte | |
| Geschichte eines Nussknackers | |
| Der Pate Drosselmayer | 05:35 |
| Der Christbaum | 03:11 |
| Das Mädchen mit dem hölzernen Mantel | 05:48 |
| Wunderdinge | 08:17 |
| Die Schlacht | 03:35 |
| Die Krankheit | 05:07 |
| Die Prinzessin Pirlipat | 10:44 |
| Frau Mauserinks | 07:37 |
| Der Mechanikus und der Astrolog | 05:11 |
| Die Nuss Krakatuk | 02:47 |
| Das Ende der Geschichte der Prinzessin Pirlipat | 06:01 |
| Der Oheim und der Neffe | 00:54 |
| Die Hauptstadt | 04:07 |
| Das Puppenreich | 04:48 |
| Schluss | 04:41 |
| Total | 78:24 |
Margarita Höhenrieder – Thuille, Poulenc, Françaix Sextets
Artists: Title: Thuille, Poulenc, Françaix Sextets
Catalogue No.: SM 251
Release: 02.12.2016
Description
Her artistic career has led her to many of the world’s major music centers. Margarita Höhenrieder has played many concerts as soloist with conductors like Kirill Petrenko, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Riccardo Chailly, and Fabio Luisi, and with such orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
She has been a friend of Harald Genzmer for many years. Among other works, he dedicated the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings to her, which she premiered together with Guy Touvron and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. Genzmer composed his last major work for Margarita Höhenrieder, “Wie ein Traum am Rande der Unendlichkeit” (“Like a Dream on the Edge of Infinity”) for piano and flute. In 2009, she played the premiere of the work with Emmanuel Pahud in Rome. (Solo Musica CD SM159)
In September 2014, she had a reunion with her former teacher Leon Fleisher as conductor in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Zollverein world heritage site in Essen.
Margarita Höhenrieder and the Bläsersolisten der Staatskapelle Dresden give regularly concerts and are producing recordings together.
Tracklist
Ensemble Raro – Being EaRNeST
Description
Ensemble Raro’s new recording of two rarely performed chamber music gems by Ernő Dohnányi – the Second Piano Quintet in E-flat Minor Op.26 (1914) and the Sextet Op. 37 in C Major (1935) for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet and horn – proposes to reassess these works, which are imbued with idealism, and to reflect upon the values encoded in them. It may communicate to the receptive listener something new about the world that surrounds us, since “it is the present that polarises the events into fore- and after-history” (W. Benjamin).
Tracklist
| 2. Klavierquintett es-Moll op. 26 | Ernst von Dohnányí | ||
| 1 | I Allegro non troppo | 9’50 | |
| 2 | II (Intermezzo). Allegretto | 4’52 | |
| 3 | III Moderato | 10’20 | |
| Sextett in C-Dur für Klavier, Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Klarinette und Horn op. 37 | Ernst von Dohnányí | ||
| 4 | I Allegro appassionato | 11’00 | |
| 5 | II Intermezzo. Adagio | 5’36 | |
| 6 | III Allegro con sentimento | 6’50 | |
| 7 | IV Finale. Allegro vivace, giocoso | 5’38 |
Ensemble Raro – Lived & Dreamed – Erlebtes & Erträumtes
Artists: Ensemble Raro
Title: Lived & Dreamed – Erlebtes & Ertraeumtes
Catalogue No.: SM222
Release: 30.10.2015
Description
The three of them also shared an enthusiastic interest in old national traditions, among them the great treasure trove of fairy tales and the wealth of folk melodies and rhythms. Perhaps fairy tales and dreams can help us to endure reality, because they place it in a vast continuum and because individual suffering then becomes part of a greater whole from which no-one is excluded. If that is true, then the music presented here really ought to be available on prescription.
Ensemble Raro was formed in 2004 by four extraordinary young musicians: pianist Diana Ketler, violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, violist Razvan Popovici and cellist Bernhard Naoki Hedenborg. Their goal is to create unforgettable musical moments and to combine innovative approach with rich European tradition of intimate and sincere chamber music making. In 2011 the Ensemble Raro welcomed new members: violinists Alina Pogostkina and Erik Schumann, clarinetist Thorsten Johanns, hornist Olivier Darbellay and cellist Julian Arp.
Tracklist
| Quartett für Klavier, Violine, Viola und Violoncello a-moll op. 1 |
21’37 |
| I. Allegro appassionato | 6’44 |
| II. Adagio | 7’25 |
| III. Allegro con fuco | 7’22 |
| Quartett Nr. 1 D-Dur, op. 23 für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier |
35’39 |
| Allegro moderato | 15’29 |
| Andantino e Variazioni | 12’17 |
| Finale. Allegretto scherzando | 7’47 |
| “Märchen” (Pohádka) für Violoncello und Klavier |
12’45 |
| I. Con moto | 5’21 |
| II. Con moto | 4’23 |
| III. Allegro | 2’57 |
| aus “Erlebtes und Erträumtes” für Klavier op. | 6’16 |
| “Den vergessenen Grabhügeln auf unserem Dorffriedhofe” | 6’16 |
| Total | 76:43:00 |
Max Müller – Weihnachten!
Max Müller
Weihnachten!
Katalog Nr.: 88875033532
Veröffentlichung: 31.10.2014
Produktbeschreibung
Jetzt legt der Künstler eine wunderbare CD mit Weihnachtsliedern in neun Sprachen und Weihnachtstexte aus drei Jahrhunderten vor.
Max Müller: „Ich bin in Kärnten aufgewachsen, wo man, theoretisch, die Möglichkeit hat, in drei Sprachen Weihnachten zu feiern: Deutsch, Slowenisch und Italienisch. Das hat wohl meine Neugier geweckt, herauszufinden, wie Weihnachten in anderen Ländern klingt und was andere Menschen in den letzten dreihundert Jahren zum Thema so geschrieben haben. Mittlerweile zähle ich viele Weihnachtsmusik-CDs mein Eigen – die Notenberge und Bücherstapel diesbezüglich habe ich noch nicht gezählt – und ich freue mich sehr, Sie mit dieser CD auf meine ganz persönliche Weihnachtsreise einladen zu dürfen. Begleitet werden wir dabei von der Harfenistin E. Goritschnig, der es tatsächlich gelingt, auch hartgesottene Weihnachtsgegner milde zu stimmen. Sogar im Hochsommer, zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme!Harald Krassnitzer im Vorwort zu dieser CD:……und jetzt kommst du, lieber MAX MÜLLER, und bringst mir dieses wunderbare Geschenk und machst all meine dumpfen Gefühle für Weihnachten vergessen. Führst mich mit deiner Musik quer durch Europa und weit darüber hinaus und erwärmst mein Herz mit den humorigen Geschichten von Jandl bis Rosegger und Storm bis Glattauer.
Ja, jetzt ist es mir wieder vollkommen bewusst. Der Heilige Abend ist eine ganz große Geburtstagsparty, und da geht’s gar nicht um die Geschenke und um die Gutscheine, sondern einfach nur darum, dass man zusammen mit vielen Menschen ein Fest feiert und das tut, was Sartre so wunderbar einmahnt: Lachen, einfach viel lachen und sich freuen. Ich danke dir dafür und wünsche dir auch eine fröhliche Weihnacht.
Backcover & Tracklist
Casal Quartett – Genesis 1757 – F. X. Richter
Artists: Casal Quartett
Title: Genesis 1757 – F. X. Richter – Sieben Streichquartette op. 5
Catalogue No.: SM 184 – 2 Hybrid SACDs
Release: 09.06.2014
Description
An ominous foreboding, blood in the snow, a corpse in winter …
These is the story of a tragic incident which took place near the court of the Duke of Hildburghausen in 1757, and forms part of the unusual credentials of a man who avoided a fatal end only by a hair’s breadth because he chose to play string quartets. In his memoirs, the violinist and composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf recalls refusing an invitation to take a ride in a horse-drawn sleigh due to a premonition. As a consequence, while Dittersdorf was playing first violin with his brothers in the court orchestra, a young man sitting next to the coachman on the sleigh ride was killed due to reckless driving. Stimulated with high-quality coffee and indulging in the finest tobacco, Dittersdorf named the celebrated composer of that era whose works they were playing that evening: Franz Xaver Richter, the Mannheim master of counterpoint and a composer of the most exquisite chamber music and symphonies.
Recent research by musicologists shows it is safe to assume that those works were very likely the seven quartets of opus 5, which are now to be released for the first time in a complete recording on the SOLO MUSICA label. Two exceptional CDs have been compiled, in cooperation with the SWR broadcasting company, featuring the casalQuartett from Zurich, an ensemble that won an ECHO Klassik award in 2010. As was the case on their previous two “BIRTH of the STRING QUARTET” CDs, this release features some almost unknown examples of stunningly beautiful string quartets played on four unique instruments by Jacobus Stainer, one of the most-sought-after European violin-makers of the 18th century. This release represents a milestone in the string literature, bringing to life works written 250 years ago, and it makes the case for a well-earned revival of one of the founding fathers of the string quartet.
Tracklist
Quartett g-Moll op. 5/5b
Quartett D-Dur op.5/6
Quartett A-Dur op. 5/3
Quartett Es-Dur op.5/4
Quartett B-Dur op. 5/2
Quartett G-Dur op.5/5
Margarita Höhenrieder, Wiener Symphoniker – Klavierkonzerte
Artists: Margarita Höhenrieder, Wiener Symphoniker
Title: Klavierkonzerte Schumann & Mozart – Variationen Chopin
Catalogue No.: SM 189
Release: 20.01.2014
Description
Margarita Höhenrieder and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Fabio Luisi are playing on this Studioalbum the most famous piano concertos by Mozart, Schumann and the Chopin Variations from Don Giovanni.
The CD was recordedat the Konzerthausin Vienna.
Margarita Höhenrieder, an outstanding pianist from Munich, rarely performs in concerts. She is little known to the general public but highly respected among experts. She has been invited to perform as a soloist by the conductors Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel as well as by renowned orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle of Dresden, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
Margarita Höhenrieder also owes some essential musical inspiration to her friendship and cooperation with Alfred Brendel.
Tracklist
Piano Concerto A Major KV488Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto a minorFrédéric Chopin
Variations op. 2 “Là ci darem la mano” de “Don Juan” de Mozart
Peter Horton – Sigi Schwab – Guitarissimo XL
Artists: Peter Horton – Sigi Schwab
Title: Guitarissimo XL
Catalogue No.: 88725422342
Release: 17.01.2014
Description
Guitarissimo, the primal creation of Peter Horton and Sigi Schwab, which made plucked-string history in the Eighties with its dazzling successes, has now upgraded itself to XL. Guitarissimo XL unveils two new jewels in the crown of sound that is Guitarissimo: Tommi Müller, bass and Andreas Keller, drums & percussion. The two are adept at adding fuel to the flames of nimble-fingered Peter Horton and Sigi Schwab.
Peter Horton, artistic all-rounder and custodian of the inner fire, has been associated with Sigi Schwab guitar-wise for many years; as guitarist and vocalist, he soon joined forces with Sigi to create the Duo Guitarissimo. The two became a musical legend, inspiring hundreds of thousands of guitarists and lovers of the guitar worldwide with the art and craft of their playing.
Peter Horton, singer, guitarist, composer and writer, stood in Germany, Austria and Switzerland many thousand time on the concert stage and before the TV camera. He made music with world stars from David Bowie to Placido Domingo – nearly in all music directions and released up to 60 recordings and 10 books.
Sigi Schwab, a true Marco Polo in his diligent journeys of discovery across the tonal landscapes of guitar culture, has an internationally unrivalled track record featuring jewels of music with world stars, in studios and on stages at the highest level.
Tracklist
Ensemble Raro – Dohnanyi Dvorak Suk
Description
Ensemble Raro was formed in 2004 by four extraordinary young musicians. Ensemble Raro is constantly looking for creative programme forms, in which they aim to establish new cultural, musical and literary connections. Raro is the ensemble in residence at the Chiemgauer Musikfrühling Festival in Traunstein, SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest, Kobe International Music Festival, Pelerinages in Munich and Mozartiade in Augsburg. They are actively involved in performing contemporary chamber music repertoire. They gave a British and German premieres of Peteris Vasks’s Piano Quartet. Their performances of Walter Braunfels’ and George Enescu’s works in Pelerinages series in Munich received a high critical acclaim.
When a new musician is being considered for the ensemble, personal compatibility is the criterion, not technique. That was the case with the Ukrainian violinist Andrej Bielow. “It was clear from the first note that we would play together,” says Diana Ketler, “because he can completely open himself emotionally – to his colleagues, to the audience, to the music.”
Tracklist
Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1 [28:56]
1. Allegro (8:19)
2. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (4:36)
3. Adagio, quasi andante (7:43)
4. Finale. Allegro animato (8:07)
ANTONÍN DVOØÁK
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 87 [36:35]
5. Allegro con fuoco (8:41)
6. Lento (10:09)
7. Allegro moderato, grazioso (7:41)
8. Finale. Allegro ma non troppo (9:52)
JOSEF SUK
9. Elegie Op. 23 for Piano trio
Adagio [5:56]
TT 71:45