Long-term cooperation with the Munich Symphony Orchestra

The label partnership, initially scheduled for five years, will be launched on 20 October 2017 with the release of a Schubert CD conducted by Kevin John Edusei.

“We are pleased to have found a partner in Solo Musica, with whom we can collaborate in an up-to-date arrangement on an equal footing as well as artistically self-determined,” commented Annette Josef, Intendant of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, signing the contract with Solo Musica , The collaboration is initially scheduled for five years, in which CD recordings of the Munich Symphony Orchestra are to be published in their own appearance at regular intervals. Solo Musica takes over the label management and enables the worldwide distribution of the recordings via the distributors Sony Music for Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as Naxos in the rest of the world.

“Solo Musica is very interested in developing creative ideas in partnership. This is the only way to create individual, extraordinary recordings, such as our first publication with the Munich Symphony Orchestra – a Schubert recording. In addition, I think it is nice to work together with a sought-after Munich symphony orchestra as the Münchner Plattenlabel in addition to our internationally established artist base, “said Hubert Haas, managing partner of Solo Musica.

The first release is scheduled for October 20, 2017, for which the Schubert Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 “The Unfinished” were included in the finished version by Mario Venzago. Kevin John Edusei, Principal Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, on the repertoire selection: “Franz Schubert is considered by my orchestra to be a composer with an essential key function. It is to be understood out of the spirit of Viennese Classicism and at the same time bridges the gap to Bruckner and Mahler or contemporary composers such as Thomas Larcher. In other words, we just have to do Schubert! “

Today (07/31/17) it was announced that Philippe Jordan, Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, was appointed Music Director of the Wiener Staatsoper. The Wiener Symphoniker and Philippe Jordan will soon be touring Japan, South Korea, France, Germany and Switzerland. Most recently, Jordan’s cycle of all symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven in the 2016-17 season, which was also recorded for the first time as a complete cycle for the in-house CD label, was recorded and will be released in autumn 2017.

International Opera Awards 2017

Philippe Jordan, Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, was named Best Conductor at the prestigious International Opera Awards.

Congratulations!

We are happy about two nominations:

Liv Migdal: Acht Jahreszeiten
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni
Piazzolla: Cuatro estaciones portenas

Sinfonieorchester Basel: Igor Strawinsky
“Pétrouchka (Originalversion from 1911)”
Version for Orchestra and for Piano Four Hands

Unconditional meticulousness: The Et Arsis Piano Quartet releases its debut album with piano quartets by Johannes Brahms and Peteris Vasks at Solo Musica

There are music ensembles that launch their debut CD just days after their first rehearsal. Well, exaggerated said. The Et Arsis Piano Quartet certainly did not show such a precipitous will to publish: the four musicians spent a good ten years before they recorded their first record.

With their forward-moving, accented recording of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (op. 25), the four chamber musicians make an independent, contentious contribution to the musical discussion of Brahms interpretation. They are preceded by the quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano by the contemporary Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who like no other person gives musical expression to the exile of his people in their own country during Soviet rule and the uncertainty of the years of transformation.