Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet - Trout Quintet / Piano Quintets - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The first volume of CPO's two-part of concertante quartets or 'Concerto Sonatas' by Georg Philipp Telemann features seven works, each of which is scored for a different chamber ensemble selecting it's particular combination of instruments from the recorder, transverse flute, oboe, violin, viola, viola da gamba, violoncello, or bassoon over a thoroughbass foundation. No other composer of the era offers better material for studying the various playing styles of the concerto sonata than Georg Philipp Telemann. There are more than thirty trio sonatas and quartets in which Telemann explored sonata and concerto border regions and moved between them in various chamber ensembles. The ensemble Cologne Camerata - Camerata Köln is one of the most long-loved chamber music ensembles for early music in the world. Under the name of Camerata Köln a handful of music students founded the ensemble in 1979 at the music conservatoire in Cologne. Ever since then, enthusiasm for the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the desire and imagination to pursue wholly new sounds and forms of interpretation, artistic approaches and stage presence in combination with a great deal of research and spontaneous desire for music making have marked the work of the ensemble and their international concerts.

Scubert - Quintet-The Trout [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/2014

NOWS from David Rosenboom is a captivating expression of the radical challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The music examines the notion of Inchco-presence,Inch or togetherness, when experienced in isolation. This seemingly self-contradictory concept became an everyday occurrence as in-person gatherings became video conferences. Rosenboom spent this time passing fragmented musical ideas back and forth with performer-composer Sarah Belle Reid. In this organic way, a collection of Inchsound correspondencesInch accumulated between the two artists, made with instruments ranging from strings and horns to modular synthesizers, analog signal processors, urban and desert soundscapes, and much more. The resulting album, NOWS, is a post-genre masterpiece that speaks to our unique moment in history.