Jan Kobow - John Dowland & His Contemporaries - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 2016, almost three hundred years after the composition of Georg Caspar Schurmann's Die getreue Alceste, Barockwerk Hamburg presented a semi-scenic performance of this opera in the atrium of the Hamburg State Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. Ira Hochman founded the ensemble Barockwerk Hamburg in 2007 with the goal of rediscovering both vocal and instrumental chamber and stage music from the Baroque era and bring it back to life. The ensemble draws particularly often from the rich tradition of Hamburg, which not only attracted numerous great musicians during the 17th and 18th centuries, but also the public and patrons from all over Northern Europe. The permanent cast of Barockwerk Hamburg consists of 15 instrumentalists and singers. However, the ensemble cooperates closely with other Baroque specialists and adapts the cast to the requirements of different programs. It's members include musicians with international experience as well as up and coming talents from Hamburg University of Music and Drama.

Kahn / Thedeen / Triendl - Cello Sonatas / Two Pieces [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/07/2019

In her own words, Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) had been gifted by nature with a Inchsmall, invisible engineInch that allowed her to do in ten minutes what others needed an hour for. This inner drive can be demonstrated in all areas of this Polish artist's life. She was an excellent violinist from an early age, had success as a writer and wrote her first compositions as a teenager - all at a dizzying pace and yet the quality of her works are not superficial in the least. This new by cpo is the second in a series of her complete symphonic works. After presenting her Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4, works from the early 1950s, Lukasz Borowicz and the WDR Symphony Orchestra perform more examples of Bacewicz's wealth of expression. These include the neoclassical outbursts of the Overture (1943) and the Second Symphony (1951), the sophisticated, already strongly timbre-oriented Variations for Orchestra (1957) and the Tre movimenti, in which Grazyna Bacewicz had achieved her InchlateInch style - the so-called InchsonorismInch, in which the colour of sound plays an essential structural role. After these Inchthree movementsInch, the Inchsmall engineInch ran for almost another four years - this phenomenal musician had completed everything faster than the others. Her invisible drive can still be heard here today.