Hin Hugrakka

Wolfgang Holzmair is a baritone, especially noted for his art song recitals. He received his university education at the Vienna University of Economics. After graduating, he began voice studies at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. In 1981 he won second prize at the 's-Hertogenbosch Competition in the Netherlands, and won the Vienna Musikverein International Competition for Lieder Singers in 1982.

In earlier times, adaptations and rearrangements of their own works or those of others formed an integral part of the daily lives of musicians and composers. So-called ‘historically informed’ performance practice, which has developed out of a strictly historical perspective on past eras of music, long left this way of treating an existing composition almost totally unexplored. Today, however, it is enjoying a renaissance and is part of a musician’s training. The idea of arranging Bach’s works is a natural one, since the composer himself was an inveterate transcriber. Most of the programme recorded here consists of solo keyboard works rescored for a chamber formation – in other words, the performers have chosen an approach that is the contrary of Bach’s usual practice. A fascination for the timbral possibilities of the viola da gamba trio and a shared passion for Bach’s music prompted the Cellini Consort to create this original and personal programme.

Xavier Naidoo hat wie kein anderer die deutsche Popmusik geprägt und ist einer der erfolgreichsten Sänger und Songwriter Deutschlands. Seine authentischen Live-Auftritte gehören zu dem Besten, was die Musikszene in Deutschland zu bieten hat; seit über 25 Jahren steht Xavier Naidoo nunmehr auf der Bühne und begeistert sein Publikum mit seiner einzigartigen Stimme und seiner virtuosen Musikalität. Inzwischen hat er sieben Studio-Soloalben veröffentlicht, die sich millionenfach verkauften und alle direkt in den Top-3 der deutschen Albumcharts landeten. Sein achtes Studioalbum Hin Und Weg erscheint am 19.07.2019.