Info text: Homage to Heinrich Schiff 17 CD box with 62 works by 30 composers, including 25 first releases of the recordings Orchestras and ensembles: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Berlin Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, The Vienna Wind Ensemble, German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Northern Sinfonia, […]

Info text: JOMO Mary Oliver, violin & viola Johanna Varner, cello Johanna Varner, cellist, scholarship holder from the city of Munich and initiator of numerous concert series in Munich and Mary Oliver from USA, member of the ICP Orkest, Dr. Phil. of music theory and soloist on the viola and violin, founded the duo JOMO in 2008. The two experimental and non-conformist musicians […]

Info text: NEOCLASSICAL MODERN AND EXPRESSIVE CLASSICITY Works by Otto Siegl, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith, Günter Raphael, Witold Lutoslawski, Darius Milhaud and Siegmund Schul The name OTTO SIEGL (1896–1978) is only marginally familiar today to passionate rarity hunters. The native of Graz wrote in 1946 that he played “a lot of chamber music, like most conductors and composers, mainly viola. […] In the […]

Info text: Schönberg wrote “Pierrot lunaire” shortly before the development of twelve-tone music in a few days (March/June 1912) and selected 21 poems from a cycle by the French poet Albert Giraud in the German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben. There is no ongoing plot. Each poem describes a small scene, a moving image, a macabre anecdote […]