Vintage Culture - Promised Land - VINYL LP

Born in Prague in 1979, the composer, conductor and chorus master Ondrej Adámek, who studied in his Czech hometown and in Paris, has already won numerous prestigious awards for his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic music. In his musical language, which also repeatedly incorporates elements of distant cultures, he creates unusual musical narratives. He seeks the authenticity of his interpretations by combining voices and movements, gestures and theatricality, phonetic and semantic aspects, and his own specially developed musical instruments. The premieres of Ondrej Adámek's InchWhere are You?Inch and InchFollow meInch were distinctive for their excellent casts, featuring stars such as Magdalena Kožená, Isabelle Faust and Simon Rattle. In Adámek's InchFollow meInch, a three-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, the melodies are divided between the soloist and the orchestra along the lines of the late medieval hocket technique, whereby the composer seeks to connect a single individual with a (human) crowd. The first performance of Adámek's InchWhere are You?Inch for mezzo-soprano and orchestra was an outstanding event in Munich's concert programme this year. In the eleven-part, approximately 35-minute-long kaleidoscope of sound, dominated by constant motoric movement - ranging from everyday sounds such as the monotonous ticking of a clock to the sweeping, electrifyingly rhythmic pounding of the orchestra tutti - the composer embarks on a search for the human (InchWhere do we come from and where are we going?Inch) and the divine.

The opportunity to celebrate, in 2020, the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven alongside the 30th anniversary of German reunification is akin to a gift for a tag that has been instrumental in preserving the recording heritage of the GDR, offering as it does the opportunity for a retrospective view and assessment of the past. This series with 10 new editions from the archive of ETERNA recordings includes audio productions from the early days of the tag as well as later productions from the late 80s. Partly remastered from the original tapes and provided with the original covers, these historic-legendary recordings shine in new glamour. The present volume presents Symphony No. 9 performed by Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Leipzig with conductor Hermann Abendroth and vocalist Peter Schreier.

Vintage Culture -InchPromised LandInch / The culmination of a transformative journey unearthed in 2019 and forged during a creative awakening amidst the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Vintage Culture announces his long-awaited album, Promised Land. Through 16 meticulously crafted tracks, Vintage Culture will deliver a comprehensive exploration of various electronic music genres, unfolding a deep listening experience that showcases his talent as a producer, sonic visionary and DJ. CD Digipak.