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Neuigkeit Jun 8, 2015 | Wencke Wallbaum Award & Rezension & Release & Artists Audiophiles Highlight

​Here you can read the complete review:

Die frühen Beethoven-Quartette wirken in manchen Aufnahmen - gerade im Vergleich mit den mittleren und späten Werken - noch ein bisschen brav. Nicht so beim Quartetto di Cremona.

Die Streicher aus der Welthauptstadt des Geigenbaus gehen im Quartett op. 18,1 mit einem (typisch italienischen ?) Temperament zur Sache, das den Hörer unmittelbar packt. Umwerfend, wie sich die vier im eröffnenden Allegro gegenseitig befeuern. Im Gesang des anschließenden Adagio sind dann die Leidenschaft und Ergriffenheit, die Beethoven mit der Vortragsbezeichnung „affettuoso ed appassionato" einfordert, so deutlich zu spüren wie in nur wenigen Einspielungen. Das 26 Jahre später entstandene cis-Moll-Quartett op. 131 kommt aus einer ganz anderen Sphäre. Hier hat Beethoven die Formen der klassischen Tradition längst hinter sich gelassen und eine Tonsprache geschaffen, die bis heute nichts von ihrer eigenwilligen, mitunter widerborstigen Rätselkraft verloren hat. Viele Musikhistoriker und Interpreten haben immer wieder den vermeintlich abstrakten und weitabgewandten Charakter des Spätwerks hervorgehoben.

Das Quartetto di Cremona rückt die Musik dagegen in ein sehr menschliches Licht. Auch im cis-Moll-Quartett steht der Ausdruck für die vier Italiener im Vordergrund. Das zeigen sie etwa mit ihrer expressiven Wärme, die den eröffnenden Fugensatz ebenso beseelt wie die Variationenfolge im zentralen Andante, aber auch mit der Leidenschaft, die das ganze Finale vorantreibt wie in einem Höllenritt. Auch ein Komponist, der sein Gehör verloren hat, bleibt ein Mensch aus Fleisch und Blut: So lautet die zentrale und überzeugende Botschaft des Cremoneser Ensembles zu Beethoven. (Marcus Stäbler, Stereo 7/2015)

Neuigkeit Aug 20, 2015 | Sabine Wiedemann News Video UNESCO Artist for Peace Elisso Bolkvadze

The video gives impressions of the recording session with Elisso Bolkvadze. The Georgian pianist, an UNESCO Artist for Peace and a local hero in her native Georgia, presents Prokofiev's Second Piano Sonata and Schubert's Impromptus D 899 in glowing and lyrical interpretations.

​Sergei Prokofiev and Franz Schubert - a highly intelligent combination, highlighting the position of the two composers between tradition and innovation. Prokofiev's sonata oeuvre is signifi¬cantly more present in Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union than in Central Europe where, at best, his Seventh Sonata is only occasionally programmed. Yet with his nine complet¬ed sonatas, spanning his career from his youth up to the period shortly before his death in 1953, Prokofiev created a musical cosmos similar in range to Shostakovich's string quartets. Hailing from the Geor¬gian capital Tbilisi, Elisso Bolkvadze has chosen the Second Sonata (1912), where Prokofiev adopts an incredibly delicate tone which, at the same time, appears aggressive in its motoric energy, reflecting the modernist spirit of the Russian capital of St Petersburg before the First World War.
Elisso Bolkvadze has complemented this with Schubert's four Impromptus D. 899, a popular cycle whose innova¬tion is often underestimated. For, alongside his great piano sonatas, Schubert always put new forms to the test with compact, and sometimes also programmatic, messages. This also holds true for the Impromptus, where pure colour is combined with lyrical, dramatic and gestural aspects.

Georgian pianist Elisso Bolkvadze was selected as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in January 2015. She has won numerous international piano competitions, including the Van Cliburn, Vianna da Motta and Dublin Interna¬tional Piano Competitions. She is regularly invited to perform as a soloist alongside international orchestras, and also gives recitals in major concert halls across Europe and the United States. A superstar in her home country, she was awarded the prestigious national "Medal of Honour of the Georgian Government" in 1993. In 2013, Elisso Bolkvadze founded her own charitable foundation, "Lyra", which supports talented young Georgian pianists. She is the Artistic Director of the Batumi Music Festival in Georgia.

Release date of the production (Germany) is August 14th 2015.
The second audite-album with Elisso Bolkvadze is planned for 2016.

Neuigkeit Jul 7, 2015 | Wencke Wallbaum News & Award & Release & Artists Another nomination by German Record Critic's Awards for audite

​The quarterly and annual awards of the German Record Critics' Award (PdSK) are sought-after prices in the German music scene. The winners of the quarterly awards are included in the Quarterly Critics' Choice ("Bestenliste") of the German Record Critics' Award. The lists recommend new releases which merit special attention for the quality of interpretation and for their value to the repertoire. These lists provide a candid picture of new releases which, in the jury's opinion, are of outstanding importance when judged on purely artistic and audiophile grounds.

Neuigkeit Jul 14, 2015 | Sabine Wiedemann News Video Video Franziska Pietsch / Detlev Eisinger

​The video gives impressions of the recording session with Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger as they make their audite debut with chamber works by Edvard Grieg. The three Violin Sonatas represent half his œuvre in this field, epitomising central stages in his artistic development. Grieg rated these three sonatas amongst his best works. The new production will be released on July 24th (Germany).

As an emerging talent in the GDR, Franziska Pietsch enjoyed special state support. After her father's escape to the West in 1984, two years of reprisals by the regime followed, intensively shaping Franziska Pietsch's understanding of music: deprived of any possibility of playing concerts or taking lessons, her chosen path towards hope - against desperation, refusal, fear and despotism - led inwards. Music became the only language in which she was able to express herself freely and which gave her the necessary strength to withstand external circumstances, continuing to hope for freedom. These were the origins of the intensity and artistic depth which characterise Franziska Pietsch's playing to the present day.


Neuigkeit Aug 4, 2015 News Klosterkirche Muri als Tonstudio

Impressions of the recording situation of the CD production of the Muffat Messe "Missa in labore requies". The Cappella Murensis and the ensemble Les Cornets Noirs make perfect use of the four galleries in the Abbey Church of Muri.​

Neuigkeit Aug 11, 2015 News Mandelring’s Mendelssohn Edition CD of the Week at rbb

CD DER WOCHE | 10.08. - 16.08.2015
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "Complete Chamber Music for Strings"
Beate Stender, kulturradio


Bislang gab es die vielgelobte Einspielung der gesamten Kammermusik für Streicher vom Mandelring Quartett auf vier einzelnen CDs. Jetzt ist die Gesamt-Edition erschienen.

Entweder ganz oder gar nicht. Wenn sich das Mandelring Quartett einen Komponisten vorknöpft, dann nur mit all seinen Werken. Nach seinen Gesamteinspielungen der Streichquartette von Schostakowitsch und Janáček hat sich das Ensemble Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy zugewandt. Dazu gehören sechs Streichquartette, zwei Quintette und das Oktett. Als Gäste machen der Bratschist Günter Teuffel und das Quartetto di Cremona das Ensemble komplett. Die vier CDs der Mendelssohn-Gesamtaufnahme sind nun in einer Box erschienen.
Das Mandelring-Quartett, v.l.n.r.: Bernhard Schmidt (Violoncello), Nanette Schmidt (Violine), Roland Glassl, Viola, Sebastian Schmidt (Violine), Foto: Martin Blume
 
Hochexpressiv und subtil

Die vier Musiker des Mandelring Quartetts sind perfekt aufeinander abgestimmt: seit dreißig Jahren musizieren sie schon als Quartett zusammen und drei der vier Musiker sind Geschwister. So betont der Cellist Bernhard Schmidt: „Das Geschwisterverhältnis trägt dazu bei, dass wir ähnliche Einflüsse gemeinsam erlebt haben und wir über eine sehr lange Zeit ein gemeinsames Klangideal formen konnten."

Dieses gemeinsame Klangideal hört man auch in der Gesamteinspielung. Ihr Mendelssohn klingt differenziert: von romantisch-sensibler Fröhlichkeit bis zu nachdenklichen und grüblerisch-schmerzvollen Ahnungen.

Bernhard Schmidt erzählt über die gemeinsame Arbeit an der Mendelssohn-Gesamtaufnahme, die sich über ein ganzes Jahr erstreckte:  „Man muss bei Mendelssohn mehr und geschickter Regie führen innerhalb des musikalischen Ablaufs als bei anderen Komponisten. Sonst lässt man sich von der Begeisterung und den langen Steigerungen mitreißen und irgendwann klebt man sozusagen emotional an der Decke. Da muss man sich bewusst zurücknehmen."

So entstand eine klug durchdachte und sehr subtile Interpretation. Der Verstand behält hier jedoch nicht das letzte Wort. Das Mandelring Quartett spielt mit so großer Hingabe und Mühelosigkeit, dass man sofort spürt, wie nahe ihnen diese Musik ist. Dieser Mendelssohn ist eine absolute Herzensangelegenheit.

Neuigkeit Aug 21, 2015 | Sabine Wiedemann News Video Jacques Thibaud String Trio

​On September 4th audite presents the second album with the Jaques Thibaud String Trio: Beethoven's Complete String Trios on 2 CDs. As a preview watch and hear impressions from the recording session and the new recording in the video.

The five String Trios are masterpieces of the young Ludwig van Beethoven as he travels towards the string quartet: however, many musicians and scholars have preferred the mature Trios Op. 9 to the subsequent String Quartets Op. 18. With their new double CD, the Thibaud Trio provide an opportunity to rediscover these milestones in the history of the string trio.

Following the successful release of String Trios by Cras, Reger, Dohnányi and Kodály (aud. 97.534), the Jacques Thibaud String Trio are now turning towards a Classical composer, with a new audite complete recording of the Beethoven String Trios.
It is not always clear why certain genres make it into the pantheon of musical history, whilst others remain "insiders' tips". The string quartet undoubtedly belongs to the former category, whilst the string trio - despite brilliant works such as Mozart's Divertimento K563 or the Beethoven String Trios - forms part of the latter. The trio formation consisting of a violin, viola and cello is generally deemed to produce a thin sound and to have been neglected by composers. With Beethoven, however, the opposite is true: for the young Beethoven, the trio was a touchstone of his mastery of this form "without piano", in which he found himself as a composer.
He left five trios in all, in Opp. 3 and 8 turning towards the traditions of the divertimento and the serenade, whilst producing new and sophisticated reinterpretations of these forms. His Trios Op. 9, written in 1796-98, became his calling card as a composer for string instruments. All the characteristics of the mature Beethoven can be found here: astonishing sonorities; a sense of the character and personalities of the three instruments; using few, concise themes; drama and sensuousness.

Neuigkeit Sep 16, 2015 | Wencke Wallbaum News & Artists & Release Heinz Holliger gets Swiss Grand Award for Music 2015

​Holliger, who is currently on tour in Japan, accepted the award by live video link during the presentation ceremony in Basel Cathedral attended by Federal Councillor Alain Berset. Chosen from among 15 nominees by the Federal Music Jury, he receives the sum of CHF 100,000.
Here you can read the full text of the honorific speech:

Neuigkeit Sep 25, 2015 | Schweizer Klaviertrio – Swiss Piano Trio Artists The Swiss Piano Trio on its 10th Latin America tour

From 28 September until 10 October, the Swiss Piano Trio will be on its 10th concert tour in Latin America. The ensemble will perform in renowned concert series like Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, Fundacion Beethoven in Santiago de Chile and Asociación Nacional de Conciertos in Panama. In all three countries, the musicians will also teach in masterclasses. The Swiss Piano Trio will perform on this trip the piano trio in E flat major op. 70,2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, which will be part of volume III of its complete Beethoven recording, the Moments Musicaux by Swiss composer Rudolf Kelterborn and Mendelssohn's virtuoso piano trio in d minor op. 49.

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