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Norbert Glanzberg
(1910-2001)
Holocaust Lieder
Suite Yiddish
Roman Trekel,
Baritone
Orchestre Symphonique de
Mulhouse
Daniel Klajner
MDG
901 1588-6
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The Franco-German
composer Norbert Glanzberg dedicated many years of his life to film
music, chansons, and show business. It was not until the last quarter
of his life that he spent more time reflecting on his Jewish roots
and wrote the "Holocaust Songs" and "Yiddish Suite"
for two clarinets. Shortly prior to Glanzberg's death in 2001 Frédéric
Chaslin and Daniel Klajner orchestrated these works. The Symphony
Orchestra of the City of Mulhouse in Alsace under the conductor
Daniel Klajner and with the baritone Roman Trekel is now presenting
a highly ambitious and emotionally rich SACD featuring these impressive
scores by a composer who knew his way around all the musical genres.
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Martinu/Holliger/Dorati
Oboe Concertos
Yeon-Hee
Kwak, Oboe
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Johannes Goritzki
MDG
903 1586-6
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Since her debut
CD in 2001 Yeon-Hee Kwak, the winner of two Echo Klassik awards,
has been known as the "Paganini of the Oboe." Now she
pays homage to three first-class oboe composers of the twentieth
century. Together with the Munich Radio Orchestra under the conductor
Johannes Goritzki she plays the Oboe Concertos of Bohuslav Martinu
and Antal Dorati and - as an encore - the Sonata for Solo Oboe by
Heinz Holliger.
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Luigi Gatti
(1740-1817)
Serenata a piu stromenti di Concerto
Sestetto
Calamus Ensemble
MDG 603 1589-2
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The Calamus
Ensemble has often surprised us with recordings by rather unknown
composers. These musicians now present us a sextet and a serenata
for an octet of winds and strings (in all likelihood celebrating
its recording premiere) by Luigi Gatti, an Italian composer from
Lake Garda.
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Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Complete Clavier
Works Vol. 11
Siegbert
Rampe
Hapsichord, Clavichord, Fortepiano
MDG
341 1311-2
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Almost twenty
years of musical development lie between the forty-two Piano Pieces
KV 15 from Mozart's London Sketchbook and the Variations in F major
KV 398. On Vol. 11 of his edition of Mozart's complete piano works
on historical instruments, Siegbert Rampe enables us to observe
"as-if-we-were-there" his development from a Salzburg
child prodigy to a Vienna concert organizer. Mozart played the variations
himself on 23 March 1783 during a very successful "Academy";
he himself had organized this event at the Burgtheater in Vienna,
and the emperor was in attendance.
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Hermann Reutter
(1900-1985)
Lieder
André
Morsch, Baritone
Eildert Beeftink, Piano
Audiomax
703 1609-2
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For every singer
art song is one of the necessary challenges along the path to opera
stardom. This insight gave the baritone André Morsch the
idea for a brilliant program. He occupied himself intensively with
the songs of the German composer Hermann Reutter together with the
Dutch pianist Eildert Beeftink and presented them at the Hugo Wolf
Academy Voice Competition. His efforts reaped him the reward of
two prizes: the competition's first prize and the Hermann Reutter
Special Prize. His interpretations of these "little operas"
can now be heard on CD.
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