Sebastian Bohren & CHAARTS Chamber Aartists - Op. 2 - Hartmann, Mendelssohn, Respighi, Schubert (2017)

The founding principle of the Swiss ensemble CHAARTS is to bring together a group of individual musicians from a variety of backgrounds - but from high-class orchestras and ensembles: Philharmonic from Vienna and Berlin, Tonhalle from Zurich, Bavarian Radio, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Quator Galatea, Julia Fisch Quartet, Stradivari Quartet etc. - and to make music without a conductor. Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren brought together CHAARTS for this second album, bringing them together for a very eclectic program. To begin: Mendelssohn's violin concerto … but not the one we believe! It is the First Concerto - the famous, in E minor, is actually the second - written by the very young composer, then fourteen years old, at the time of his symphonies for strings. In particular one will notice the delicious last movement, rather gypsy in spirit. Bohren continues with another rarity, the sombre Concerto funèbre by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composed in 1939 as lamento for the invasion of Eastern Europe by the Nazi regime. A dense, rough writing, full of sad and unfathomable beauties. Follow the adorable Antiche danze ed arie by Respighi, a kind of reverence to baroque music as imagined in the twentieth century. And Bohren finished with a last rarity, the Rondo in A major Schubert, a work of 1816 - so youthful - but one of the rare concertant moments that exist in his repertoire.

TRACKLIST

01. Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV O 3: I. Allegro - Sebastian Bohren
02. Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV O 3: II. Andante - Sebastian Bohren
03. Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV O 3: III. Allegro - Sebastian Bohren
04. Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: I. Introduktion. Largo - Sebastian Bohren
05. Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: II. Adagio - Sebastian Bohren
06. Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: III. Allegro di molto - Sebastian Bohren
07. Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra: IV. Choral. Langsamer Marsch - Sebastian Bohren
08. Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 3: I. Italiana. Andantino - CHAARTS Chamber Aartists
09. Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 3: II. Arie di corte. Andante cantabile - CHAARTS Chamber Aartists
10. Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 3: III. Siciliana. Andantino - CHAARTS Chamber Aartists
11. Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 3: IV. Passacaglia. Maestoso - CHAARTS Chamber Aartists
12. Rondo for Violin and Strings in A Major, D. 438 - Sebastian Bohren