Torri / Hammer / Bernhard / Meier - Baviera - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

This recording features works by some of the most well-known composers from the era of the musical Baroque. Born roughly within two decades of each other in Italy and Germany, the influence of the older generation on the younger was significant. The common thread of the selections on this recording is the subject of Christmas, explicitly so in the case of Corelli and Torelli, implied by the time of year in the case of Vivaldi, and by the choice of festive trumpets, the pastoral flute and the oboe d'amore as solo instruments in the works of Bach, Handel and Telemann. Details 1. Grave - Vivace 2. Largo 3. Vivace 4. Overture 5. Rondeau 6. Sarabande 7. Bourree I-II 8. Polonaise - Double 9. Menuet 10. Badinerie 11. Allegro Non Molto 12. Largo 13. Allegro 14. Soave 15. Allegro 16. Largo 17. Vivace 18. Vivace - Grave 19. Allegro 20. Adagio 21. Allegro 22. Adagio 23. Vivace 24. Allegro 25. Pastorale Largo 26. Overture 27. Gigue 28. Aire - Menuetto 29. Bourree - Marche 30. Air 31. Ich Steh An Deiner Krippen Hier

Born in 1968, the Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon writes music that has been described as 'driven by a playful modern sensibility' (New York Times). His work list includes all genres, from solo pieces to large orchestral works, such as the Helvetia Symphony, scored for the same forces as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. He has also written for smaller orchestra, however, and this disc is bookended by his two chamber symphonies. Chamber Symphony No.?1 was composed in 2013, and in his liner notes the composer admits to influences from Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schreker, as well as Olivier Messiaen 'if passionate gestures evoke the decadent Vienna of the turn of the 20th century, the overall harmonic color remains quite InchFrenchInch... Switzerland is, after all, half way between Vienna and Paris.' In contrast, the initial inspiration for Chamber Symphony No. 2 (2017) was a visual one - a stained-glass panel from 1658 commemorating the first members of Musikkollegium Winterthur, for which the work was written. Dubugnon creates a chaconne based on the colours of the stained glass, but also includes a Bach fragment in allusion to a reference on the panel to Psalm 150. These elements are used in various ways throughout the piece, which ends in a big accelerando. Framed by the symphonies is the concerto Klaveriana for piano, orchestra and obbligato celesta. Featuring a wide range of piano techniques, the concerto is unusual in that it incorporates an important part for the celesta which functions as a mysterious reflection of the piano. The album is a first on BIS from Musikkollegium Winterthur under it's conductor Thomas Zehetmair, with Noriko Ogawa as the soloist in Klaveriana.

The Principality of Liechtenstein celebrates it's anniversary - and the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra celebrates with a new in super audio quality! The orchestra's founding anniversaries are only one year and an important zero apart while in 2018 the orchestra was in it's 30th season, in 2019 the fourth smallest country in Europe - and the sixth smallest in the world - can look back on 300 eventful years. Under the baton of conductor Florian Krumpöck, the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra performs the Symphony in D Minor op. 10 InchWallensteinInch by the European romantic Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901).