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Handel, Bach, Pachelbel: Glory and Splendor in the Age of Royal Baroque Music


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Glory and Splendor in the Age of Royal Baroque Music

George Frederic Handel
Music to the Royal Fireworks Feuerwerksmusik
Harp Concerto in B flat major Harfen-Konzert B-Dur

Johann Pachelbel
Canon Kanon
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in A minor Violinkonzert a-moll
Air & Badinerie

Konstanze Jarczyk, harp • Michael Schubert,flute
Volker Hartung, Davide Toso, Claudio Mahle, violin
Christine Kaulbach, viola • Pavel Ulanicki, cello
Holger Fabry, double bass

COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC
VOLKER HARTUNG, conductor


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Glory and Splendor of the age of Royal Baroque music is celebrated in this album by the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Volker Hartung.
George Frederic Handel’s „Music for the Royal Fireworks“ is a work of gigantic proportions
It was composed in 1748 for a fireworks display inspired by political events. The British King George II wanted a huge celebration with great fireworks and music on occasion of the Aachen peace treaty in October 1748.
The splendid and delightful Harp Concerto in B major is an original work by Handel and one of his most beautiful works, brilliantly performed by great German harpist Konstanze Jarczyk. Conductor Volker Hartung takes his violin as soloist in this passionate reading ofJ.S. Bach's Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor.
Johann Pachelbel’s famous Canon, the „Air“ from Bachs 3rd Overture Orchestra as well as a highly virtuoso performance of the „Badinerie“ by flutist Michael Schubert are concluding this beautiful album.

Beethoven Septet op.20, Variations for Clarinet

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Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
Septet E flat major op.20 (Version for Orchestra)
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Variations in D major for Clarinet and String Orchestra
Variationen für Klarinette und Streichorchester (WoO 44b)


MILTOS MUMULIDES, Clarinet
MEMBERS OF ST.PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
VOLKER HARTUNG, conductor

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Ludwig van Beethoven was perhaps the first self-certain individual in modern times and his work the musical embodiment and fulfilment of political revolution. Beethoven began his composing career with the creation of chamber works. His Septet Op 20 in E flat Major op. 20 for Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass was an instant great success in Vienna of 1799 and became one of the most popular works of Beethoven, witnessed numerous editions soon as well as arrangements for different instruments by the composer himself.
Conductor Volker Hartung thought to get a better dynamic balance between the strong wind instruments and the few strings in expanding this section. He uses the full string section of the orchestra, without changing the composition. On this album Maestro Hartung and the musicians from the Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra are performing with 10 Violins, 5 Violas, 5 Celli and 3 Double Basses for their new recording of Beethoven's masterpiece with the advantages of modern high-end sound recording technologies in 24bit/48kHz HD-Audio.

During a journey to Prague Beethoven wrote four pieces for Mandolin and Piano for Comtesse Josephine von Clary-Aldringen, a well-known singer and mandolin player.
Miltos Mumulides, principal Clarinetist of the Cologne New Philharmonic, arranged the present version for clarinet and string orchestra. It keeps closely to the original and is written in the original key. The elegant work is a shining little jewel, full of humor, with deep emotions in the minor variation ideally suited for the register of the clarinet and brilliantly performed soloist and orchestra!

Anton Dvorak Symphony No.9 'From the New World' - New Album released!



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Anton DVORÁK
SYMPHONY No.9 in E minor 'FROM THE NEW WORLD'

This album features Antonin Dvorák´s most famous work, his Symphony No.9 'From the New World' in a passionate and inspired performance by the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Volker Hartung.
Performed at Kölner Philharmonie in Germany and mastered in gorgeous HD-24bit/48 kHz-Sound, this recording will you give you a wealth of listening pleasure!


Anton DVORAK
Symphonie Nr.9 e-moll op.95 »Aus der neuen Welt«
Symphony no.9 E-minor op.95 »From The New World«
Symphonie no.9 mi mineur op.95 »Du Nouveau Monde«

Cologne New Philharmonic Volker Hartung, conductor
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C.P.E. Bach & J.S. Bach Concertos for Flute, Cello & Piano

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C.P.E. & J.S. Bach Concertos for Flute, Cello & Piano

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Cello Concerto in A-Major • Violoncello-Konzert A-Dur Wq 172

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Flute Concerto in E minor BWV 1059 • Flötenkonzert in e-moll BWV 1059

Concerto for 2 Violins and Orchestra D Minor BWV 1043
Konzert für 2 Violinen und Orchester d-moll BWV 1043

Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor BWV 1052
Klavierkonzert Nr.1 D moll BWV 1052

Dejan Gavric, flute • Natasha Majer, piano
William Lithgow, cello • Alexej Sviatlovsky, Oleg Popov, violin
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Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp + Serenata Notturna - Now released

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture to »Don Giovanni«
Ouvertüre zur Oper »Don Giovanni«

Flute and Harp Concerto in C major, K.299
Konzert für Flöte, Harfe und Orchester C-Dur KV 299
Serenade No.6 in D major, K.239 »Serenata Notturna«
Serenade No.6 »Serenade Notturna« in D-Dur KV 239 für Streicher & Pauken


Andreas Haas, flute • Johanna Reithmayer, harp
COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC
VOLKER HARTUNG, conductor


Live Recording from Kölner Philharmonie in January 2006

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Listen to the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Volker Hartung performing the Overture from Wolfgang Mozart's Opera 'Don Giovanni' - and his delightful double concerto for Flute, Harp and orchestra. Concluded by the wonderful serenade for string quartet, timpani and string orchestra 'Serenata Notturna', this album is a musical journey into the joyful and enlightened period of the Rokoko with its cultural splendor and grandeur.

Maurice Ravel & Manuel de Falla - Nights in Gardens of Spain - New Album released!




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NIGHTS IN SPANISH GARDENS
Georges Bizet
Carmen-Suite no.1 for Orchestra (arr. by Arturo Toscanini)
Carmen-Suite Nr.1 für Orchester Suite de l' Opéra »Carmen« no.1 pour orchestre

Manuel de Falla

»El Amor Brujo - Love is Magic« for mezzo soprano and orchestra
»Liebeszauber« für Mezzo-Sopran und Orchester
»L’Amour sorcier« pour mezzo-soprano et orchestre
»Nights in Gardens of Spain« for Piano and Orchestra
»Nächte in Spanischen Gärten« für Klavier und Orchester
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Nuits dans les Jardins Espagnols« pour piano et orchestre

Maurice Ravel
Boléro

Filippo Faes, Piano • Dora Brockmann, Mezzo Soprano
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This Album celebrates the Magic of the Spanish South set to mesmerizing Music by Maurice Ravel, Georges Bizet and Manuel de Falla. De Falla' s wonderful impressions 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' for piano and orchestra evoke the feelings of the composer when he visited the Arabian Palaces in Andalusia, in Granada and Cordoba. Italian pianist Filippo Faes gives a delightful and most sensitive performance. De Fallas ballet score 'El amor brujo (Love, the Magician)', sang by the great mezzo-soprano Dora Brockmann is distinctively Andalusian in character with the songs in the Andalusian Spanish dialect of the Gypsies. The music contains moments of remarkable beauty and originality. The Carmen Suites are two suites of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 famous opera 'Carmen'. This recording provides a selection of the best pieces from both suites. Bolero, is Ravel's most famous musical composition and was originally written as a ballet score, but is now usually played as a concert piece. The composition was a sensational success when it was premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1928 and has become world-famous since then. This album contains the slowest, yet powerful rendition of this work on record by Volker Hartung and his Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra.

Maurice Ravel's Bolero, Georges Bizet's Carmen Suite, Manuel de Falla's Ballet 'El amor brujo' and his piano concerto 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain ' - these late romantic masterworks are presented here in a fabulous recording by Volker Hartung and his Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra. Italian pianist Filippo Faes gives one of the greatest readings on record of de Falla's impressions of Andalusia. A great album not to be missed - remastered in 24bit/ 48khz and presented in fantastic sound.

New Album: Shining Stars … Es leuchten die Sterne - German Silver Screen Classics!


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SHINING STARS … Es leuchten die Sterne
Film & Light Music from the Golden 1920s to 1950s
German Silverscreen Classics • The Vintage Scores
Große Unterhaltungsmusik der 1920er bis 1950er Jahre in Original- Arrangements Les grandes œuvres de la musique legère 1920-1950 dans les arrangements originaux
Orient-Express, Malaga, Illusion, Das Nachtgespenst, Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins, Münchhausen-Suite, Piroshka-Suite, Klingende Wochenschau, Münchner Geschichten, Schöne Argentina, Lied der Lerche, Chianti-Lied, Capri-Fischer Bel Ami • Eau de Cologne, Señor und Señorita and much more...

Angèle Durand, Gerhard Jussenhoven, Willy Ketzer
Stefan Vincke, Martina Winter, Frank Struck

COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC VOLKER HARTUNG, conductor


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On this 2-Set-Album you are listening to recordings of German Film and Light Music from the Thirties to the Fifties of the last century. The magic word of the jazz music at the time was SWING. This music found its way into the sound tracks of the first 'Talkies' and Shows since 1929 in Berlin. Most scores of these songs had been lost since WW II and could only be recovered by great efforts. After more than 80 years, this music is now again performed with its original arrangements and delights the ear of the listener with its amazing melodiousness and the magic of sound.

Tchaikovsky & Mussorgsky - new album released!


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Capriccio Italien • Pictures at an Exposition
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien op.45, Tondichtung für Orchester Capriccio Italien for orchestra op.45 Capriccio Italien op.45 pour orchestre

Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel
Bilder einer Ausstellung Pictures at an Exhibition • Images d‘un Exposition

Cologne New Philharmonic Volker Hartung, conductor

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Vivaldi Baroque Concertos

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This album celebrates the magic of Antonio Vivaldi's Baroque Concertos composed in the wonderful city of Venice. It consists of some of the most delightful works for solo intruments and orchestra as well as overtures and concerti grossi of different periods by the composer.

Antonio Vivaldi Baroque Concertos

I. Sinfonia No. 3 G-dur for strings and basso continuo (from ‘Il Core delle Muse’, RV 149 )
II. Concerto for flute and strings in G minor ‘La Notte’ (op. 10 No. 2 RV 439)
III. Concerto for cello and strings in E-minor (from Cello Sonata No. 5 in E minor, RV 40)
IV. Concerto for flute and strings in F major ‘La Tempesta di Mare (op. 10 No. 1 RV 433)
V. Concerto grosso in D minor op. 3 no.11 (from L’ Estro Armonico, Libro Secondo, RV 565)
VI. Concerto for guitar and strings in D major (RV 93)
VII. Concerto (Sinfonia) for strings and basso continuo in A Major (RV 158)


Dejan Gavric, flute • Davide Toso, Alexej Svatlovskij & Attila Sautov, violin
Pavel Ulanickiºº & Simon Kovarskij, cello • Frank Kedzierski, guitar

COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
VOLKER HARTUNG


Recorded at Altenberger Dom, Germany; Evang. Kirche Bad Neuenahr, Germany, Cathédrale St.Sauveur

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