Alexander Schimpf & Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie
Release Date: 19 June 2020
Label: C-Avi
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260085531127
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
The orchestral debut album of the German pianist Alexander Schimpf, together with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, a professional chamber music ensemble from Augsburg (Bavaria).
Alexander Schimpf: Mozart's music poses special challenges to performers, and they have often been pointed out. As it would seem, certain fundamental tensions or contradictions inherent in music making are taken to extremes: many works by Mozart require that the instrumental process and conditions responsible for producing the sound should retreat into the background in favor of the musical result as we hear it.
No expenditure of energy should be noted or heard. Fine, precise timing
adjustments should never sound organized or deliberate. This music should ideally be presented as something that emerges entirely naturally, of its own accord. All the mental and technical effort in the background should be eliminated from the forefront of perception. Otherwise, the typically
'floating' Mozartian natural effect, that magical inner balance, cannot emerge...
On this recording we make use of the version specifically authorized by Mozart: eschewing additional wind parts. Although the wind parts composed by Mozart for these concertos can indeed provide some colour, they do not have anything essential or indispensable to add in terms of musical substance." (Alexander Schimpf, Booklet)
After a series of impressive wins at competitions in Bonn (German Music Competition), Vienna (1st Prize at the International Beethoven Competition) and Cleveland (1st Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition), Alexander Schimpf has been pursuing a successful career as a concert pianist,
performing regularly on several continents. Invitations to play solo piano recitals and to collaborate with renowned orchestras have led to appearances in well-known classical music venues such as the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Marinsky
Concert Hall in Saint Petersburg, the Great Hall of the "Alte Oper" in Frankfurt, the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, the Cologne Philharmonie, and the Munich Philharmonic Hall.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Nimble mid-life Mozart piano concertos courtesy of a small ensemble and beautifully articulated pianism. The acoustic is spacious, but overly so." 4 Stars, BBC Music Magazine
Tracklisting
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Kathrin Zukowski, KammerMusikKoln
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Premysl Vojta, Florence Millet, Ye Wu
Herbert Schuch, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Aage Richard Meyer, Cam Kjoll, Ruth Potter
Joshua Bell
Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
