Gunar Letzbor - Sonaten BWV 1001 1003 1005 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Andreas Tarkmann is one of the leading arrangers of our time. He has won numerous awards and collaborated with Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Albrecht Mayer and James Galway. However, he also appears as a composer, especially in the field of children's and young people's audiences. He frequently puts Hans Christian Andersen stories to music and presents stunning family-oriented concerts. On this recording his two works for children InchZwerg NaseInch (Gnome Nose) and InchDas kalte HerzInch (The cold heart) are presented by narrator Juri Tetzlaff and the Duisburger Philharmoniker under Christoph Breidler. Andreas Tarkmann is currently a professor at the Mannheim College of Music where he teaches instrumentation and arrangement.

MIT Wind Ensemble - Waking Wings [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/25/2004

In music, InchostinatoInch (Latin obstinatus InchobstinateInch) is a constantly repeated sequence of notes. A constantly repeated bass motif is perfect for improvisation - which in turn inspired many Baroque composers to write numerous masterpieces. Gunar Letzbor has put together a splendid program from this fund of pieces, including the well-known Ciaconnas by Bertali and Schmelzer and two ostinato-dominated sonatas by the violin virtuoso Biber, but also works by lesser-known composers such as Georg Arnold, Heinrich Döbel and Johann Josef Vilsmayr. In the question of the continuo instrumentation, the Ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria breaks new ground according to new research, the magnificent Salzburg court, where Biber was Kapellmeister, had a special continuo accompaniment for this magnificent instrumentation with lute, chitarra attiorba and colachone, the ensemble had the instruments specially reconstructed and now let's the InchSalzburg lute continuoInch be heard again on this recording.