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Niederschlagsmengen ("Amounts of Precipitation") Roger Hanschel: Music for saxophone and string quartet in 7 movements Auryn Quartet Roger Hanschel, saxophone CD (total playing time 65'46) Order no. 0211-0 Barcode 40 09850 021100 further details: www.tacet.de The saxophone plays a long, lonely melody. The tones seem to get lost in a vast, empty space, but before that happens, other voices speak up - string instruments. They sink into one's ears and, through their nervous, slow steadiness, start to excite - Roger Hanschel approaches classical music from another angle. What may initially appear as constant or slowly changing repetitions of patterns in unusual metres - offering the platform for lyrical excursions, expressive outbursts or virtuoso escapades, often but not always by the saxophone - reveals itself to be a metamorphosis of classical forms of composition in an unaccustomed environment, of themes that wander through the instrumental parts and much more. Indian music emerges, sequences of tones that sound Ottoman, minimal music, jazz in all forms and variations and indeed, "classical music" - but honestly, what does "classical" mean today? A cliché by which each person understands something different. Reason enough, then, to follow the Auryn Quartet's need to do something different in between. Incidentally, the Auryn Quartet embarks on such excursions from its ancestral "conventional" world time and time again. Here, they offer the well-known Cologne "Saxophone Mafioso" Roger Hanschel an opportunity to show his mastership in both composition and improvisation. With insatiable curiosity, Roger Hanschel has absorbed the various components of world music and created his very own personal mixture from it. And he is a stupendous virtuoso who knows how to apply new playing techniques - including permanent breathing, for example - in a (not?) breathtaking way. 
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7 with One Stroke Concertos by Antonio Vivaldi Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Ariadne Daskalakis, Artistic Direction TACET Real Surround Sound & stereo - 24/96 Blu-ray (total playing time 60'09) Order-no. 0205-5 Barcode 40 09850 020554 further details: www.tacet.de A while ago, we introduced the unusual CD "7 with One Stroke" by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. 7 concertos by Antonio Vivaldi - each member of the orchestra can play a solo. Now the Blu-ray Disc with the same content is on the market. The multi-channel version applies the concept of equality of all players in an original way. You're really in for a surprise! The Blu-ray Disc (stereo and TACET Real Surround Sound) was already the blockbuster at this year's High End Fair in Munich. We invited Ariadne Daskalakis, the (guest) concertmistress of the ensemble, and asked her to describe the most important impressions, from her viewpoint, when hearing the multi-channel version for the first time. She named three things: she could hear herself better than ever before on a recording, she detected far more interaction between the musicians and she was able to recognise all the details of the score. Three musical observations by an outstanding artist of a musical phenomenon - Real Surround Sound. |
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