Rudens Turku Festival Ensemble
Release Date: 29 May 2020
Label: MDG
Packaging Type: Super Jewel Case (SACD)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760623216966
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
While he was still a student, Rudens Turku established the Starnberg Music Days. Over the past twenty years this renowned festival south of Munich featuring an attractive
combination of master classes and top quality concerts has become a highlight of the musical spring season.
To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Turku has brought
together an illustrious company of teachers and soloists for an ambitious project: chamber music on the large scale and with musicians numbering among the best in their fields.
The Nonet by Louis Spohr is performed here by nine outstanding chamber musicians; the violin part is of daredevil virtuosity – which is no problem for Rudens Turku. Ulf-Guido
Schafer arranged Antonin Dvorak’s uncommonly popular 'American Suite' especially for this occasion. It is astonishing how a mere eight musicians can and do make Dvo 345;ák’s orchestral colours shine.
Turku, a native of Albania shares his solo part with the star trumpeter Matthias Hofs in Wolf Kerschek’s “Festival Rhapsody�, a genuinely festive arrangement by with
influences from Star Wars to Stravinsky.
Recorded on SACD in surround sound, it offers a magnificent virtual space which unfolds in a genuine three dimensions, even in the smallest living room. Filled with splendid music, spatial bounds seem to vanish.
Tracklisting
Trio Parnassus
Katharina Kammerloher (mezzo-soprano), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Eric Schneider (piano)
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Celeste-Marie Roy
Andrzej Szadejko, Goldberg Baroque Ensemble
caterva musica
Beau Soir Trio
Syrinx Quintet
Torleif Thedeen (cello) & Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Magnus Boye Hansen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano)
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
Ensemble La Francaise
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
