Brahms/ Kornauth/ Herold - Vienna 1913The years 1900 1914 were perhaps the most thrilling period in European music history: the cradle of what we now call musical Modernism. This was the time when the great "avant garde schools" took shape: in Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, and particularly in Vienna. Music branched out into a multitude of aesthetics, styles, and genres, as we can see in in the variety of terms that attempt to describe art in that period: Impressionism, Expressionism,

The present album has the field to itself (for now) in attempting a complementary survey of D'Ambrosio's work as a salon musician

Jonathan turned to the world for answers finding only darkness

bringing the program full circle

She was an artist ahead of her time and her exotic persona challenged many of the accepted norms

Handel/ Cummings/ Lowrey - Lotario

Abdul-Wahab Kayyali (oud) and Hamin Honari (tombak

romantic orchestra (expanded with electronic organ

Sämann could be a little more forceful in her second aria in BWV 57

the polarity of the everyday and the masks we wear

She begins with Lili Boulanger's evocation of a spring morning

Naumburg Solo Flute Competition

The premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Bayerische Staatsoper in autumn 2019 was praised both by press and audiences