Knftige Lebenswege Von Schulkindern

„Möbius Strip“combines two very diverse productions, which compliment each other nicely. On both the saxophone plays the lead.

Die Ruinen von Athen (‘The Ruins of Athens’) was composed to celebrate the opening of the new German theatre in Pest in 1812. Designed to accompany the play of that name by August von Kotzebue, its incidental music is substantial enough to form a kind of one-act Singspiel. It is full of attractive arias, duets and choruses and includes the famous Turkish March. Though the work’s theme was rooted in Greek mythology, in reality it was explicitly political in nature, celebrating Pest as ‘the new Athens’. This is the first ever recording of the work with full narration.

Herbert von Karajans ikonische Aufnahme der Missa Solemnis von 1966 mit den Berliner Philharmonikern und einem herausragendem Quartett von Solisten (Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich und Walter Berry) erscheint erstmals als Blu-ray Audio. Komplett neu gemastered in den renommierten Emil Berliner Studios liegt diese ausgezeichnete Einspielung nun in audiophiler Klangqualität 24bit/192kHz vor. Der Aufnahme liegt ein 20-seitiges Booklet in Deutsch und Englisch bei mit einem exklusiven Kommentar von Gundula Janowitz “Recording with Karajan”.

Herbert von Karajan (German: [ˈhɛɐbɛɐt fɔn ˈkaraˌjan] (About this soundlisten); born Heribert Ritter[a] von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years.

Immense interpreter of the work of Robert Schumann, the German pianist Severin von Eckardstein offers here an intense and narrative version as seldom of one of the most complex cycles of the XIXth century, the Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6.