Vor genau 10 Jahren entstand mit "RELAX Jazzed“ die erste bahnbrechende Zusammenarbeit von Blank & Jones und Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr.

Of all the classical song cycles, Schubert's 'Winterreise' is perhaps the most beloved. Baritone Michael Wilmering and pianist Daan Boertien give a new, deeply emotional charge to the music, which, in these uncertain times, seems to be a compass for a future whose contours are not yet entirely clear. Adversities are there to be overcome and in this new TRPTK release, we hear two young talents give a contemporary vision of this timeless music. A refreshing interpretation that, perhaps more than many others, directly touches the listener and takes him or her by surprise.

Sasha Cooke has been called a “luminous standout” by the New York Times and “equal parts poise, radiance and elegant directness” by Opera News. She has won two Grammy Awards, including one for her contribution to Mason Bate’s opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, released on PENTATONE in 2018. In 2021, she returned to the label with Violins of Hope. Kirill Kuzmin makes his PENTATONE debut.

For the Piazzolla album "Variations on Buenos Aires", which will be released by Berlin Classics on 28 January 2022, the Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen has brought together two different ensembles - her own ensemble specialising in tango nuevo and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, which she artistically directs. A special chance that allows the music of Astor Piazzolla to be heard in a new way due to its unusual combination of tango ensemble and string orchestra.

Ruggiero Ricci, né le 24 juillet 1918 à San Bruno - Californie, était un violoniste américain. Issu d'une famille de musiciens (sa soeur Emma était violoniste au New York Metropolitan Opera), il commence le violon à sept ans. Ses premiers cours sont dispensés par Louis Persinger, son professeur jusqu'à ses dix ans. Par la suite il suivra les cours de Michel Piastro, Paul Stassevitch et Georg Kulenkampf.

Berliner Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch

After years and years spent playing solo and chamber music of all kinds, and touching the greatest composers (among whom Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov) as well as instrumental rarities by Puccini, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Rossini, Offenbach, the occasion arises for recovering some short piano pages of my own. They had been created on the spur of the moment, frequently connected with particular occasions and emotions provoked by events, places, encounters… They are almost in the style of the “Péchés de Vieillesse”, to whom – as happened to my great compatriot Gioachino Rossini – the most intimate confidences are secretly entrusted. They also express my wish to let something personal and deep surface, something ripened thanks to my assiduous dedication to their great repertoire. Their references are at times obvious and not hidden, but also filtered through the sensitivity of a pianist-performer who writes, after all, for an audience of friends, recounting his life to them.

«Then we sat down and listened to quite beautiful music from all kinds of instruments, which were all played by the nuns. In particular, I was astonished to hear several angelic voices, the likes of which I had never heard before in my life.» (VON UFFENBACHS TRAVELS with Bernhard Trebuch)This is how Herr von Uffenbach reports about the nuns who were trained in music in the famous Ospedali in Venice and whose concerts were known far beyond the Srenissima.Antonio Vivaldi, who wrote many of his concertos for the young ladies, also worked in one of these Osepdali – orphanages.The Austrian recorder virtuoso Michael Oman gathered the crème de la crème of the early music scene around him with Amandine Beyer, Paolo and Albert Grazzi as well as Francesco Galligioni when he sets out on the trail of the concerti of the Prete rosso.

Retrouvez la sélection officielle de RTL sur la compilation 50 Ans de Chanson Française. Ce coffret 5CD réunit les plus grands titres de la chanson française dont des titres inoubliables interprétés par de magnifiques artistes.

On An Evening of New York Songs and Stories, Vega revisits some of the most iconic songs in her repertoire as well as more hidden gems in a stunning live recording on which she is backed by longtime guitarist, Gerry Leonard, bassist Jeff Allen and keyboardist Jamie Edwards. The album was produced by Gerry Leonard, mixed by Grammy Award winning engineer Kevin Killen and mastered by Grammy Award winner, Bob Ludwig.

The French pianist Chantal Stigliani, of Venetian origin, studied the piano at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur. In 1971 she met Yvonne Lefébure, who had a decisive influence on her career through her teaching and friendship. She won first prize in the Claude Debussy International Competition and has inherited from her teacher an understanding of the subtleties of French music. Yvonne Lefébure transmitted to her pupils the secrets of those to whom she was close from the beginning of the last century: Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Emmanuel, Fauré and others. This is a tradition that Chantal Stigliani passes on in masterclasses. Her own eclectic tastes give pre-eminence to J.S. Bach but also to music of the twentieth century. She is often heard in recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris and in various towns in France. She has made a number of recordings for radio and gives concerts regularly in Germany, England, the United States, Canada, Holland, Bulgaria, Italy and Greece, either in chamber music or as a soloist with orchestra. She is founder of the Philomuses Association for the promotion of gifted artists from different disciplines, bringing an enrichment through contact between painters, composers and poets. In the same spirit she has set up workshops for children to introduce them to music, dance, mime, and the history of art.

British art-pop group established in 1983.Often cited as a pioneer in commercial electronic music and sampling, TAON used technology to rework the same recordings many times over, a novel approach at the time. Although only a relatively small amount of original material was commercially released during the project's active periods (1983-1989 and 1998-2000), their legacy includes scores of reissues, remixes, and compilations of previously released and unreleased material.

One of the most enduringly popular conductors to come out of Eastern Europe during the postwar era, Rafael Kubelik had the good fortune to outlive the communist Czech regime from which he exiled himself, and to return to his homeland a hero late in his career.

Die Neue Hofkapelle Graz stellt hier Mozarts Die Zauberflöte in einer bezaubernden Kammerfassung vor und kommt dabei mit drei Musikerinnen (Flöte, Violine, Violoncello) aus. Der bekannte österreichische Bühnen-, Film- und Fernsehschauspieler Johannes Silberschneider kommentiert das musikalische Geschehen mit einer Bearbeitung von Textausschnitten von Emanuel Schikaneder in steirischer Mundart.