Siesta Ensemble & Ovidio Gimenez Bassoon Delights

There is always poetry as well as virtuosity coursing through Enrico Gatti’s violin playing, and nowhere more so than when he turns to Italian early Baroque music, as here in Mille consigli with his Ensemble Aurora: the album title reflecting the multiplicity of emotional ideas and colours possible in violin music from this time (Gatti’s earlier recordings of similar music have recently been re-released by Glossa as L’arte del violino in Italia).

The second solo album by Georgy Shaskov, who is currently active as the principal bassoonist of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. This work is a collection of chamber music works centered on bassoon, supported by friends of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. An exquisite ensemble and rich sound that can only be achieved by making music together on a daily basis. You can feel the joy of playing music from each sound. From the classical style of De Vienne to the contemporary-sounding Francois, to the sonata with Mozart's original cello, the colorful tones of the bassoon are fully recorded.

Following the Grammy nominated Volume 2 featuring the music of Fitelberg, the Canadian ARC Ensemble presents Volume 3 in its "Music in Exile" series, dedicated to the music of Szymon Laks. Born in Warsaw in 1901, Laks studied in Paris before being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He soon joined and conducted the Auschwitz orchestra (his auditioning with a 'Jewish' work - Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto - went unnoticed). Although the trauma of his imprisonment left him alienated and reclusive, few of his works refer specifically to the Holocaust.

This collection of chamber works by French female composers helps to consolidate our understanding of how important these musicians were to French culture during the period 1860-1960. Some of these names will be more familiar to the public than others, Germaine Tailleferre being perhaps the best known, mostly for her membership of Les Six. Others ought to be far more renowned than they are now.

Georg Lickl - Calamus Ensemble - Wind Music: Cassation / Quintet / Sextets
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 217 MB | Full Artwork: 89 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 603 0859-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1999
Genre: Classical | Style: Classicism, Wind Music

Johann Georg Lickl, also Ligkl, Hans-Georg Lickl, Hungarian: Lickl György (11 April 1769 – 12 May 1843) was an Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher. He wrote operas, one wind quintet, three string quartets, and served as a Kapellmeister at several churches. From 1807 until his death he was choirmaster at what is now Pécs. A large portion of his output is sacred music, including masses and requiems…