Kra Maga

Une corneille ne tue jamais une autre corneille. Dans un futur proche ravagé par la pollution, un vieil homme nous raconte qu'une Corneille nommée Dar Duchesne - la première de tous les temps à avoir porté un nom - lui a raconté ses nombreuses vies et morts au pays de Kra…

Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr (1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. Dario Salvi continues his exploration of Marschner’s overtures and stage music in this second volume featuring a programme of all world premiere recordings. Salvi conducts the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra in its first recording on the Naxos label.

The violin, the cello and the piano are blessed with an immense wealth of concertante works from all eras. For the composer Fabian Müller (*1964), it was therefore particularly appealing to write solo concertos for two instruments that tend to be neglected in classical music. The sound of the heckelphone in particular is probably only familiar to a few.