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The Richter Ensemble performs music from the 17th to the 20th century exclusively on gut strings and uses its experience with historical performance practice to heighten the sense for the development of musical language over the centuries. The ensemble is passionately dedicated to the music of the Second Viennese School and, based on its research, has decided that the time is ripe to steer the perception of this music in a new direction, on the path of rediscovering and recapturing not only its modernity but also its connections with the past. Hence the musicians have initiated a project to record the entire string quartet works of the Second Viennese School, to place them in a historical context and to combine them with unusual works by other composers.

Between 1980 and 1998 Simon Rattle conducted no less than 934 concerts with the CBSO. Together they performed works by many 20th-century composers, as well as established favourites, and gave a total of 16 world premieres. Rattle also made 69 recordings for EMI with the orchestra. This box brings together that recorded legacy, which includes pieces by composers pivotal to his work, such as Mahler, Sibelius and Szymanowski, as well as some of the new compositions he championed — Nicholas Maw’s Odyssy, Mark Anthony Turnage’s Momentum, Three Screaming Popes and Drowned Out, and Thomas Adès’ Asyla.

Ich möchte singen bis Freund Hein mich holt, antwortete Reinhard Mey in einem Interview zur Tournee des Jahres 2017. Und so stand er wieder auf der Bühne, der Liedermacher und Geschichtenerzähler Reinhard Mey, der wie am Beginn seiner Karriere ganz allein, nur von seinem Gitarrenspiel begleitet von Freude und Hoffnung, von Liebe und Zorn, von Glück und Schmerz singt.

Paul Hindemith - Ensemble Villa Musica - Complete Sonatas Vol. 1
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 248 MB | Full Artwork: 106 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 304 0691-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1997
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century, Contemporary

"Die Musiker des Ensembles Villa Musica spielen mit einer ansteckenden Begeisterung, mit der diese Werke geradezu wachsen und an musikalischer Bedeutsamkeit zu gewinnen scheinen." (FonoForum)