Hans Suren

The pianist George Vatchnadze was born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi but now lives and works in Chicago as Professor of Piano at DePaul University School of Music, having studied with several renowned artists from his homeland such as Alexander Toradze. As winner of prestigious competitions including the Gina Bachauer Competition in 1994, he has given concerts across Europe and the US with the likes of Valery Gergiev and Gianandrea Noseda. For this album he has gathered together 33 short pieces drawn from the huge oeuvre of film music composed by the greatest Georgian composer of our time, Giya Kancheli.

The Singapore Symphony and its music director Hans Graf present a recording of Józef Kozłowski’s Requiem, together with the Singapore Symphony Chorus & Youth Choir, as well as a quartet of outstanding soloists: Olga Peretyatko (soprano), Olesya Petrova (mezzo-soprano), Boris Stepanov (tenor) and Christoph Seidl (bass). The Requiem (1798) was commissioned to Kozłowski by the abdicated King Stanisław of Poland, and can be perceived as a requiem not just for the monarch, but for the entire Polish nation, absorbed by the Russian state during the 1780s.

Get to hear Hans Zimmer s greatest hits as you ve never heard them before! Sony Classical releases the double-album The World of Hans Zimmer A Symphonic Celebration in spring 2019. The album features the music from the Zimmer-curated World of Hans Zimmer international concert tour by Semmel Concerts. For The World of Hans Zimmer A Symphonic Celebration Hans Zimmer has newly arranged his greatest hits and made them into electrifying concert suites for orchestra, choir and an impressive list of soloists. Each concert suite features the most recognisable parts and melodies of a film score in the cohesive form of a new symphonic work. The album features such legendary scores as The Dark Knight, The Da Vinci Code, Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean and M:i-2 Mission: Impossible 2.

In 1987 the Renner Ensemble Regensburg was formed under Bernd Englbrecht, which took its name from the Regensburg cathedral organist and composer Josef Renner jun. (1868 -1934) named. Almost all members of the ensemble received their musical training from the Regensburger Domspatzen.