Friederike Reumann

Friederike Krum has learned from the best, sang with the best and deployed her extraordinary mezzo-soprano in the service of opera, jazz and classical musicals. On her 2020 album, 'Somebody Loves Me', she explores with her own unique and experienced vocal the timeless music of George and Ira Gershwin, stripped back to just her voice and the piano of Ronnie Scott's artistic director, James Pearson.

William Byrd’s oeuvre stands out above all by virtue of the diversity of its genres and structural principles. This is clear particularly in his exceptional keyboard music. The influence Byrd exerted on the continental development of clavier music is also remarkable. With Hornpipe, this program of keyboard works from Friederike Chylek finally ends, the key element of which is William Byrd’s oeuvre. From Byrd to Byrd! Friederike Chylek was born in Starnberg near Munich.

Experience a captivating juxtaposition of four distinct and mesmerizing compositions spanning a mere decade on the GENUIN CD recorded by violinist Friederike Starkloff and pianist Endri Nini. The duo has compiled works from 1913 to 1923 by Erwin Schulhoff, Claude Debussy, George Antheil, and Leoš Janáček - echoes of an era characterized by tumultuous innovation and pioneering spirit where artists across all genres laid the foundations for modernity. Starkloff, who embarked on her career as the youngest first concertmaster of a German radio orchestra, and Nini, esteemed internationally as a chamber musician, breathe life into these extraordinary, kaleidoscopic compositions with unparalleled intensity and technical mastery.

The Mediterranean Sea has been the hub of resettlement and migration for centuries. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the people who settled in those areas that were depopulated by years of war, expulsion and flight. And in 1492, the Spanish Reconquista led to the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews, who brought their culture to many countries around the Mediterranean. Even today, the Mediterranean again plays an inglorious role in flight and expulsion. The German gambist Friederike Heumann has taken this as an opportunity to present, together with the Turkish singer Nihan Devecioglu and the Spanish guitarist Xavier Díaz-Latorre, the many ancient cultures around the Mediterranean: the tradition of the Sephardic people, songs from Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia and Greece, art music from Venice to Fado in Spain and Portugal, whose influences reach as far as South America.

Handel wrote little for his native tongue, but what he did demonstrates a particular level of contemplative piety while still employing the familiar techniques of Italian opera. Praise for the beauty of nature and eternal life are the subjects of the sacred poems by his contemporary Barthold Heinrich Brockes which Handel set to music in his 'Nine German Arias'. Each aria celebrates an aspect of nature, from the beauty of a flaming rose to the sweetness of silence, with extraordinary tenderness and sincerity.

Im unterfränkischen Königsberg stürzt eine Frau in den Tod. War es ein Unfall, Selbstmord oder gar Mord? Dem neuen Klienten der Bamberger Privatdetektivin Katinka Palfy wird der mysteriöse Todesfall per anonymen Brief in die Schuhe geschoben. Noch rätselhafter ist allerdings der Mann selbst: Ewald Isenstein leidet seit einem Unfall an einer Persönlichkeitsspaltung, sein Innenleben ist unberechenbar. Katinka hält ihn für unschuldig, doch dann geschehen zwei Morde und Isenstein hat wieder kein Alibi.