Nicolas Altstaedt - Works for Cello & Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In it's new GENUIN CD InchDie Weihe des HausesInch (The Consecration of the House), the Philharmonie Südwestfalen / Landesorchester NRW presents the entire diversity of a modern symphony orchestra. The occasion for this CD is the orchestra's move to it's new domicile, the Haus der Musik in Siegen. Chief conductor Nabil Shehata chose orchestral music from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day for this production, making full use of his orchestra's strengths Beethoven's overture to InchThe Consecration of the HouseInch, with it's almost baroque sonority, Tchaikovsky's passionate and virtuosic 5th Symphony, and Andres Reukauf's lively and playful InchSüdwestfalen-FanfareInch (South Westphalia Fanfare) span a wide range of the repertoire that the powerful state orchestra offers it's audience

Nicolas Altstaedt - Concertos for Cello Nos 1 & 2 [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/01/2009

Winner of the of the 2005 German Music Competition, the 2005 Stuttgart International Cello Competition and the 2006 Adam International Cello Competition, New Zealand, as well as the recipient of a 2009 Borletti Buitoni Fellowship.