Wu Wei - Time Travels - Zeitreisen - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When Ada Aria Rückschloss took her first piano lessons at the age of three, she was already an enthusiastic listener to music. She was only eight when she first took lessons from celebrated professors. She studied at the colleges of music (MHS) in Karlsruhe (as a junior student), Stuttgart and Würzburg and attended numerous master classes. Her teachers include such leading figures as Bernd Glemser, Sontraud Speidel, Friedemann Rieger, Kristian Bezuidenhout, the duo Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl, and Arnulf von Arnim. Ada Aria has won over 100 prizes at national and international competitions. Concert tours have taken her throughout Europe and to the USA.

?Three years after it's initial , Holland Baroque's Pentatone debut Silk Baroque is presented in an attractively priced Stereo re-issue. Silk Baroque presents a musical encounter between Wu Wei and Holland Baroque, performing a programme that ranges from Baroque greats such as Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Rameau to Chinese traditional tunes, all tied together by the musicians' openness to improvisation, experimentation and cultural exchange. Wu Wei plays the sheng, an extraordinary ancient Chinese mouth organ, which looks like a bundle of bamboo reeds cased in a metal bowl. It is a miracle of harmony, melody and rhythmic possibilities, and Wu Wei's abilities fully bring out the sheng's beauty whispering, charming, and compelling. Age-old traditions come together in performances that sound fresh and contemporary. Silk Baroque carries listeners into a lively, enticing and fascinating sound world. Holland Baroque is an original and innovative baroque orchestra that approaches baroque repertoire through a fresh and contemporary approach, with a focus on improvisation and collaborations with outstanding artists from different traditions. On their first PENTATONE , they work together with Wu Wei, who dazzles audiences worldwide with his virtuosic sheng playing.

Wu Wei - Iceberg [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/26/2009