Various Artists - Immortalis / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When tuba player Siegfried Jung gave the composers the instruction to write a piece for this album, he gave them the following task InchWrite in the style of the folk music of your home country, so that it will be recognized by locals as a part of their culture.Inch The result fascinates not only by the richness of the sounds, but also by the unusual combination of tuba and harp in some of the works. Siegfried Jung, born in Timisoara, studied orchestral playing with tuba as principle instrument at the Musikhochschule Franz Liszt in Weimar with Walter Hilgers. Since 1999, he has been a tuba player in the Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim. He has gained a wide reputation in Germany and abroad through his long teaching experience at the music conservatoires in Frankfurt am Main and alongside solo appearances and receives regular invitations to teach at master classes. He has performed as guest with prestigious orchestras including the BR Sinfonieorchester, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the German radio orchestras SWR Stuttgart, HR Frankfurt and SR Saarbrücken, the Münchener Philharmoniker, at the Staatsoper in Munich and with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Amsterdam.

This offers up 75 minutes of the greatest film music of all time in original arrangements by Krzysztof Lenczowski, performed by Maksym Rzeminski and the Radom Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Dawid Runtz. Maksym Rzeminski graduated from the Primary and Secondary Music School in Kielce in the piano class of Professor Janina Wozniak. He continued his education at the Academy of Music in Krakow in the class of Marek Koziak. He was a multiple scholarship holder of programmes for highly gifted students. He debuted with a symphony orchestra at the age of ten, performing a piano concerto by WA Mozart. He is the winner of the first prize at that Polish Competition in Konin, second prize at the Polish Piano Competition in Olsztyn, second prize at the Polish Piano Competition in Skarzysko-Kamienna, and third prize at the International Chopin Competition in Germany.

East West explores musical landscapes from the European and American parts of the globe, resulting in a kind of travel journal that begins in Eastern Europe and then travels westward Duo Aliada is known for their creative approach to adapting classical repertoire for their own instruments. Polish saxophonist Michal Knot and Serbian accordionist Bogdan Laketic formed the duo in 2013 in Vienna, a city whose rich musical tradition reflects it's history as a crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe. The following years brought Michal and Bogdan to performances around the world, and into contact with various cultures and musical traditions. This wide range of experiences, beginning all the way back with their childhoods in Eastern Europe, is a major source of inspiration for their music making and for this album.