Bossi / Welte Philharmonie Organ Seewen - Britannic Organ 8 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With it's program InchFriedens HallInch on this album, the memorial choir is on the road as a traveler, ambassador and seeker of a common sound of peace. The ensemble, under the direction of Philipp Goldmann, presents the motto in very different associations the musical range alone from over five centuries of music history deliberately breaks all limits. The Denkmalchor Leipzig is one of the most prominent choirs in the city. With the Volkerschlachtdenkmal Leipzig, the monument choir has a concert venue of extraordinary quality. The performance of secular and sacred vocal music by the memorial choir in the Volkerschlachtdenkmal are unique in the Central German choral landscape due to the special acoustic conditions and an extraordinary spatial sound.

The pianist Maria Kihlgren studied at Göteborgs Musikhögskola and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna gaining her diploma in 1979. She has performed in Sweden and several European countries, the USA and South America. In recent years she has also devoted herself to recordings. Her albums, with solo music for piano on the Sterling tag, have been internationally acclaimed. All of them have a specific theme, with cover pictures by her father, the painter Carl Speglitz. The present includes works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Reger, Debussy, de Falla, and more.

TheLeuven Chansonnier (1470-75) includes not only fifty compositions by such leading 15th century Franco-Flemish names as Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys and Firminus Caron but also twelve newly rediscovered works that exist in no other source. The Ensemble Sollazzo here brings a selection of this music to life in an interpretation that is both brilliant and refreshing. With the present Volumes 3 and 4, the final instalment of the complete recording of this fascinating manuscript is now available.