Release Date: 22 September 2023
Label: Willowhayne Records - Cd / Willowhayne Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060742690377
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Connections - The German Horn
Description
Pianist Helen Davies is the daughter of a Bohemian mother and Anglo-German father and her family has always been acutely aware of their European heritage. Connections was conceived during the COVID-19 UK lockdown in March 2020. Much of the music on this recording was created by German composers, hence the decision to focus on that link, recording music which they felt connected them back to some of their familial roots. Music is an international language, unaffected by boundaries and this is celebrated in this recording. The inclusion of the little Rondo by the British composer Arnold Cooke embodies this continental link: Cooke studied composition with the German composer Paul Hindemith who had a strong influence on his style and whose musical language can be clearly heard in Cookeis short composition. In keeping with the connections theme, Laurence Davies uses a German horn, an Alexander model 103 made in Mainz for this recording.
Robert Plane; Benjamin Frith
Ural State Philharmonic Orchestra; Athens Philharmonia Orchestra; Byron Fidetzis
Qin Li-Wei; Qian Zhou; Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra; Sebastian Comberti; Jason Lai
Peter Martens; Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra; Bernhard Gueller
Janet Hilton
Hillel Zori; Arnon Erez
Colin Carr; Thomas Sauer
Chika Inoue; Scott Morris
John Potter, tenor, Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, dir. Erik Westberg
Duo Rozemond & Bekkers: Reneee Bekkers, accordion Jacobien Rozemond, violin and voice
Pieter-Jan Belder/Rainer Zipperling
Max Volbers, Il Pomo d'Oro
Leslie Howard/Mattia Ometto
Dresdner Kreuzchor
David Bergmuller
Corina Marti/Capella Tiberina/Lorenzo Cavasanti/Tripla Concordia
