…sit back and enjoy the brilliant, imaginative playing, with its interesting dialogue between the performance styles of jazz and classical music…[Mullova] certainly sounds spontaneous but retains a disciplined polish from her classical training…all in all this is a very stimulating programme, performed with flair and finesse.
The child of an American mother and a German father, prodigy violin soloist David Garrett, born David Bongartz in Aachen, Germany, reached and surpassed many an important milestone before his matriculation at Juilliard in New York. Garrett's interest in violin began at the age of four, when his older brother received a violin from his father, who was himself an antique stringed-instrument dealer.
"…The Mozart Piano Quartet provide these works with enthusiastic advocacy and MDG’s sound is a model of clarity and natural balance – just like Bonis’s music” ~Grammophone
Recent work of German instrumentalist David Bongartz (Aachen, 1980), aka David 'Garrett'. His acting talent made the Deutsche Grammophone his recruitment at fourteen years old and only fifteen years old made his first two recordings and was released on TV. Since then, after having graduated from New York in 2004, having studied with violinist Itzhak Perlman, his musical career has skyrocketed and has performed with many prestigious orchestras worldwide. In his performances is accompanied by their own group, including keyboard, guitar and percussion. This album features a diverse repertoire with compositions of hybrid versions of contemporary pop (Michael Jackson, Queen or AC / DC), film music, classical (adaptations of Debussy, Brahms, Vivaldi, Puccini, Bach or Gershwin) and own compositions in collaboration with Franck van der Heijden.
"SHM-SACD (Super High Material SACD) is the ultimate Super Audio CD that utilizes the materials and technologies that were developed for the SHM-CD to further enhance the audio-resolution. These discs are made with polycarbonate developed for the screen of the liquid crystal display. As it has a higher transparency, players can read the signal more faithfully. Also, it excels in fluidity, which enables you to cast a more accurate pit. What works wonders for a low resolution format such as CD should offer even greater sonic improvements in a real high resolution format such as SACD."
The Hungarian trumpeter, Gábor Boldoczki (…) received the coveted Prix Davidoff of the Reemtsma-Foundation for his "technical perfection and fully-developed artistic virtuosity", followed by the highly esteemed Prix Young Artist of the Year in 2002. After previously being awarded the Echo Klassik as Best Newcomer in October 2003, Gábor Boldoczki was again honoured by the German Phono Academy in 2008 as Instrumentalist of the Year.
2018 Year 12 month 6 to celebrate the 120th anniversary "German gramophone".Since its founding in 1898 as a classical music label, it has produced recordings of many great classical artists, including fultwengler, Karajan and Bernstein. This album is selected by Mr. Ryuichi Sakamoto who has been in contact with classical music through the recording of German gramophone from an early age."Best of German gramophone・selected by Ryuichi Sakamoto" is released. From the 1950s monophonic recordings to the new post-classical composer Johann Johannsson's work, all 18 tracks were recorded on a 2-Disc disc.
For his new album, Christoph Sietzen has recorded fascinating works by Bach, Albéniz, Piazzolla, Glass, Francisco Tárrega and Arvo Pärt. In his very personal selection, the percussionist selected pieces in which he and the listener find silence: "Opening" of Glassworks by Philip Glass, the famous "Asturias" by Isaac Albéniz, Bach's "Sarabande" and the "Gigue" (from the Lute Suite in E minor) - under the guidance of Christoph Sietzen, these pieces get a magical sound on the marimba, which is also reflected in the very direct recording. Whether »Recuerdos de la Alhambra« by Tárrega, Pärt's »Mirror in the Mirror« or Piazzolla's »Romántico« and »Verano Porteño«, Christoph Sietzen manages a meditative sound journey that captivates the listener from the beginning - until the end of the album the famous second, slow movement of Bach's harpsichord concerto in F minor accompanies the Academy of Ancient Music.