Maria Cebotari - Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection" - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is the third volume in the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra's series of Mahler symphonies, conducted by Tomáš Netopil. Since winning the 1st Sir Georg Solti Conductors Competition at Frankfurt in 2002, Netopil has become one of the most sought-after conductors of the younger generation. Now celebrating his ninth season as general music director of the Aalto Musiktheater and Philharmonie Essen, he gave an acclaimed performance of Mahler's Second Symphony at the Aalto Theater in Essen in May 2022.

The pianist Violina Petrychenko is a tireless and convincing ambassador of Ukrainian music. Through her initiative, numerous works from her homeland have been made known to a wider international public. Together with the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Volodymyr Syvokhip, she presents piano concertos by her compatriots Vasyl Barvinsky (1888-1963) and Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938) Each of them is an important milestone in Ukrainian music history, but unfortunately they have received little attention in the West.

Oliver Schnyder (piano), and Andreas Jahnke (violin) and Benjamin Nyffenegger (cello) perform Smetana's Piano Trio in G Minor and the famous InchDumkyInch-Trio by Antonin Dvorak. The Oliver Schnyder Trio made their debut at the Zürich Tonhalle in 2012. Their recording of Schubert's Piano Trios was hailed Incha new benchmark recordingInch by the magazine Die Bühne and was chosen as InchSwitzerland's Best Classical Album of the YearInch by the Aargauer Zeitung. This immediate success was confirmed by the recording of Brahms' complete Piano Trios, which also received great critical acclaim and was given a InchMilestoneInch from Musik & Theater. Past and present concert appearances and festival residences include the SWR Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen, WDR Funkhaus Köln, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Festspiele Baden-Baden, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Schloss Elmau, Meisterzyklus Bern, Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Musikdorf Ernen, the Hirzenberg Festival and the festival Universum Beethoven, where they took part in a complete cycle of Beethoven's Piano Trios at Boswil and Muri, alongside the Trio Jean Paul and the Wanderer Trio.