Neue Philharmonie Westfalen , Jan Schulte-Bunert – Escapades
Artists: Neue Philharmonie Westfalen , Jan Schulte-Bunert
Title: Escapades (CD + 2 LP Vinyl)
Catalogue No.: SM 186
Release: 22.04.2013
Description
John Williamsis today Hollywood’s leading film composer. Escapades for saxophone and orchestra is based on the music to Catch me if you can, the 2002 comedy about a con man starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, who in this film worked with “his” composer John Williams for the twentieth time.
Michael Nymanis one of the most dazzling figures in the post-modern music scene. Where the Bee dances was commissioned by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and performed on July 13, 1991 during the Cheltenham Music Festival.
Andrei Eshpaiwas born in 1925 the son of a composer and folk song researcher in Russia. He wrote the Saxophone Concerto in 1985/86.
The New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia was founded by a merger of two orchestras in the northern Ruhr area in 1996: the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra in Recklinghausen and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Gelsenkirchen.
The conductor Heiko Mathias Förster makes regular guest appearances with orchestras all over the world. The Israel Symphony Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Prague Symphony Orchestra are only a few of the ensembles Heiko Mathias Förster has conducted in recent years.
Tracklist
Music: J. Williams
„Where the Bee dances“ for Saxophone and Orchestra
Music: Michael Nyman
Konzert for Saxophone and Orchestra
Music: Andrei Eshpai
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen – Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5
Title: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor in five movements for full orchestra
Catalogue No.: SM 160
Release: 14.11.2011
Description
The New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia was founded by a merger of two orchestras in the northern Ruhr area in 1996: the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra in Recklinghausen and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Gelsenkirchen.
The conductor Heiko Mathias Förster makes regular guest appearances with orchestras all over the world. The Israel Symphony Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Prague Symphony Orchestra are only a few of the ensembles Heiko Mathias Förster has conducted in recent years.
Tracklist
II. section Scherzo
III. section
III. section – Rondo-Finale
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen – Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 7
Artists: Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
Title: Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 – Romances for Violin and Orchestra
Catalogue No.: SM 148
Release: 14.05.2011
Description
The year 2010 has given the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen another opportunity to present itself and the culture of the Ruhr to audiences from far beyond the region, with the orchestra being represented at many levels in the programme of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 – whether within the framework of Local Heroes Weeks, the Henze Project, “!SING Symphony of a Thousand” conducted by Lorin Maazel or the internet opera of the Ruhr Music Theatre – and yet again functioning as an ambassador for culture.
The conductor Heiko Mathias Förster makes regular guest appearances with orchestras all over the world. The Israel Symphony Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Prague Symphony Orchestra are only a few of the ensembles Heiko Mathias Förster has conducted in recent years.
Ursula Schoch played in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado for two years. In 2000 she became leader of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, which with its principal conductor Mariss Jansons is one of the most popular European ensembles.
Tracklist
Symphony No. 7 A major op. 92
Poco sostenuto – Vivace
Allegretto
Presto
Allegro con brio
Romance for Violin and Orchestra G major op. 40
Romance for Violin and Orchestra F major op. 50
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
Ursula Schoch Violin
Heiko Mathias Förster Conductor
Clair Obscur – Neue Philharmonie Westfalen: Cool Rhythm
Artists: Clair Obscur, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
Title: Cool Rhythm
Catalogue No.: SM 135
Release: 26.02.2010
Description
When black and white notes turn into sound …
The feeling when all of us play together and the notes in black and white turn into music is overwhelming. The sound is warm, full and intoxicating, sometimes almost inaudibly soft, sometimes brutally loud.
The Phantastische Zauberträume (fantastical magic dreams) by Siegfried Matthus offer particularly great variety. Sparklingly fast runs alternate with frozen moments, lyrical passages are contrasted with eruptive staccato orgies. To record this work is a real challenge.
Rhythm of the Americas by the American saxophonist and composer Bob Mintzer demands quite different abilities from the performers; the orchestra and we ourselves turn into a big band, we need jazz feeling, offbeats and a gigantic sound! Beside their solo projects all four members of the quartet also help out moreover regularly when saxophonists are required in Berlin orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic. The clair-obscur Saxophone Quartet’s most recent distinctions were at the International ADMC Competition in Illzach in 2007, the Gaudeamus Music Competition in 2007 and the Friends’ Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales in 2008.
Tracklist
Phantastische Zauberträume
01 I Die tapferen Zauberer
02 1. Zauberspruch
03 II Sentimentales Ständchen für eine zauberische Schönheit
04 III Notwendige Abrechnung mit ein paar bekannten Raufbolden
05 IV Reise in das Land Phantasien
06 2. Zauberspruch
07 V Mitternächtliches Rendevous mit lieblichen Spukgestalten
08 VI Schlaf- und Träumeliedchen für den kleinen Frank, die kleine Elsa, den kleinen Tom und andere kleine Kinder
09 3. Zauberspruch
10 VII Wilder Besentanz gegen die geistreichen Trottel, die arroganten Schönredner und die gefährlichen Dummköpfe
Rhythm of the Americas
11 I Convergence of French and English
12 II Afro-Carribean
13 III Jazzical
14 IV Confluence