Arranco de Varsóvia Rosalina

This series of recordings of Martinus early orchestral works has already brought more than its fair share of surprises. The two shorter works here are colourful and atmospheric tone-poems, pieces of real substance and major discoveries in their own right. But it is the 1922 symphonic triptych Vanishing Midnight (Mijejici pulnoc in the original Czech) here receiving its first recording which will prove the real revelation.

Aziz Shokhakimov is Music Director to Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Artistic Director to Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra. During 2015 – 2021 he held the position of Kapellmeister to Deutsche Oper am Rhein. His guest conducting has included orchestras such as Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and hr-Sinfonieorchester. In North America he has conducted Houston Symphony, Toronto and Seattle symphony orchestras.

Biografía de uno de los personajes más interesantes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Escapó de un gulag y del gueto de Varsovia. Sufrió las torturas de las SS y huyó de los bombardeos. Llevaba consigo un secreto que podría haber removido los cimientos del mundo, pero una vez junto a los poderosos, su voz se perdió en la incredulidad y la indiferencia, aplastado por la dura ley de la guerra. Estas son las palabras desatendidas del partisano polaco que en 1943 denunció a Churchill y a Roosevelt los horrores de la Shoah. Esta es la increíble historia de Jan Karski.

Hailed by Gramophone as ‘a master of his instrument and a musician of lyrical elegance and good taste’and by Le Monde as belonging to ‘the French cello elite’, Christian Pierre La Marca has, in a few years, distinguished himself by his radiant presence in the world’s leading concert halls and his award-winning recordings. After making his debut in Aix-en-Provence, he studied in Paris with Jean-Marie Gamard and Philippe Muller, before continuing with Frans Helmerson in Cologne and Steven Isserlis in London. He rounded off his training with masterclasses under Mstislav Rostropovich, Heinrich Schiff, Anner Bylsma, Natalia Gutmanand Gary Hoffman, and benefited from the advice and encouragement of such musical personalities as Itzhak Perlman, Philippe Jaroussky, Thomas Quasthoff, Leif Ove Andsnes, Maria João Pires, the Artemis Quartett, François-Xavier Roth and Seiji Ozawa. His trajectory was crowned with success at international competitions in Osaka, Frankfurt, London (Philharmonia), New-York (YCA) and Vienna (Haydn) and he has several times been invited to appear at the French Grammies.