Koch Tysman Olejniczak Ritter - 2nd Chopin Festival HamburgFollowing the success of the 1st Chopin Festival Hamburg 2018 (available on Naxos 8. 574058), the 2nd Chopin Festival Hamburg 2019 continues it's unique approach of inviting pianists to perform on original historic instruments and, by way of comparison, on a modern grand piano in the same concert. Performances range from Chopin heard on his Pleyel 'pianino' of 1832 to the most technically advanced Shigeru Kawai grand piano built in 2019. Listeners are

there is a Leon Vitali

Available on a very limited vinyl run

dream-like piano melodies and ambient soundscapes

as the work is no less complex

" (Gewandhausmagazin) The immediate response of the musical world to the Klenke Quartett's performances and recordings of Mozart's string quartets was one of acclaim and superlatives

the legacy of classicism and that of Bach's highly regarded son Carl Philipp Emanuel

handwritten by his mother in the months after his death

this record is a journey into is a journey into the psyche of McKinley Dixon

like a poetry-where listeners may discover lyrical expression and an arc of narrative

and deft melodies

000-word sleeve-note and band-by-band biographies by C86 co-compiler Neil Taylor

their jubilant counterpoint and the splendor that emanates from them have given them the privilege of remaining in the repertoire of St Thomas in Leipzig