Dorff / Schwantner / Foss / Surman / Chardas - The American Album - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin and soprano Christina Landshamer present a Telemann monography, consisting of his cantata Ino and instrumental works composed in the same period. Despite, or perhaps actually thanks to, Telemann's use of just one singer, Ino is highly dramatic, depicting a desperate woman trying to save herself and her son from her husband turned mad, eventually throwing herself off a cliff and then transformed into a goddess. Telemann composed it two years before his death, and the score is exceptionally rich and colourful. The cantata is combined with his Overture in D Major, Divertimento in E-flat Major and Sinfonia melodica, each underlining the exceptional liveliness of this composer well into the ninth decade of his prolific life. The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial Pentatone discography, including CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), Handel's Concerti grossi Op. 3 and 6 (released in 2019 and 2020). Telemann's Miriways (2020), Handel's Messiah (2020), Haydn's L'isola disabitata (2021) and Mozart Symphonies (2023). Christina Landshamer collaborated with the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin on La Passione (2022), and also featured as Marzelline on Beethoven's Fidelio (2021).

Furtwangler - Symphonyny 8 [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/23/2009

Oxalys and the New World' in it's latest CD recording, Oxalys delves into American masterpieces for chamber music ensemble. From Pulitzer Prize laureate Aaron Copland with his nature fresco Appalachian spring to Minimal Music icon John Adams' mythical Shaker Loops and jazz icon Wynton Marsalis' funky and groovin' Meeelaan. Three unknown facets of a flourishing and inspiring musical culture, as always virtuosically captured by Oxalys, the jewel of our Belgian chamber music ensembles.