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The phenomenal concert of ensemble Accordone with artistic director Guido Morini and tenor star Marco Beasley within the festival L'église d'Arques La Bataille is retrievable as a video livestream on the website of ARTE Online TV. The exuberantly energetic concert event took place on 27th of August 2010 and presented music composed for the the throne ascent of Ferdinand 4th of Naples with works of Alfonso M. de'Liguori, Giuseppe Porsile, Guglielmo Porsile, Domenico Cimarosa, Giovanni Stefani and others.... please click here
The new CD „Von den letzten Dingen" of amarcord together with the Cappella Sagittariana Dresden has just been released. The record presents a representative choice of baroque funereal musics from Central Germany. It contains amongst others the CD-world premiere of a marvellous Penitential Psalm, composed around 1700 (anonymus). Furthermore the record contains pieces of Heinrich Schütz, Johann Rosenmüller...
The master of "Non-Vibrato" and Early music specialist Sir Roger Norrington and pianist Ragna Schirmer have given an unforgettable concert in the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall. Together with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) the two top musicians performed Mozarts E flat major piano concerto KV 482 with "precisision, attention to detail and transparency", according to the Tagesspiegel...
amarcord's recent album "Rastlose Liebe" ("Restless Love") has won the renowned ECHO Classical Award 2010 in the category "Choir Recording 18th/19th century". With their 10th CD-production, the singers take a stroll through the musical Leipzig of the 19th century. This anniversary recording is a reverence to the hometown of the five world-class vocalists who obviously feel very much at home in this repertoire. Besides the compositions of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann, it is especially the today hardly known composers Marschner, Steinacker, Mühling and Zöllner who make this CD so remarkable...
Clarinet star David Orlowsky has released his new CD "Jeremiah" at SONY Classical. To realize this project, the young clarinettist and ECHO Classical Award winner has joined forces with the renowned vocal ensemble Singer Pur. Together the musicians celebrate a homage to the ancient masters of sacred vocal music. The outcome of this exceptional cooperation is a unique accord of fascinating music from the Renaissance with poetic clarinet sounds...
We're happy to announce that we've taken on the management for two highly acclaimed artists: Tatjana Masurenko (Viola) and the Vogler Quartet. Tatjana Masurenko grew up as part of a Russian jazz musician's family and came to Germany in 1991. She won numerous international prizes and awards and regularly performs as guest soloist with renowned orchestras such as...
The David Orlowsky Trio looks back on a successful year 2009. Among the highlights of the past year were highly acclaimed concerts in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, in the Prinzregententheater Munich and at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. The trio now started the new year with an appearance at the "Kissinger Winterzauber"...
amarcord's tenors Wolfram and Martin Lattke successfully sang the solo parts in Riccardo Chailly's performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, on December 17th and 18th at the legendary „Teatro del Maggio Musicale" in Florence as well as on January 7th and 8th in the singer's hometown Leipzig. The press reaction was enthusiastic...
The Norwegian Per Arne Glorvigen will be appearing in Hamburg on January 30th. Together with the NDR Symphony Orchestra under Kristjan Järvi he is performing Astor Piazzolla's concerto for bandoneon and orchestra. Glorvigen is one of the most important bandoneon soloists these days and...
For the first time, pianist Ragna Schirmer is performing at the renowned festival La Folle Journée in Nantes (France) at the end of January 2010. She is playing the rarely performed piano concerto in A flat major op. 151 of Beethoven's student and private secretary Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) as well as a solo recital with works of Schumann and Chopin, whose anniversaries are celebrated this year...
Since the beginning of 2010 the Canadian violinist Catherine Manoukian and the chamber choir Vocalensemble Rastatt are represented exclusively by the Leipzig based artist agency Rosenthal Musikmanagement. Over the past years, the young violinist Catherine Manoukian appeared as soloist with many North American, Canadian and Japanese orchestras....
With its tenth CD production, amarcord takes a stroll through the musical Leipzig of the nineteenth century. Simultaneously, this anniversary release is a reverence to the hometown of the five world-class vocalists.
We are very happy to have taken on the general management for the pianist Ragna Schirmer!
She is regarded as one of the most interesting and versatile artists of the younger generation. As awardee of numerous competitions she is looking back on eight CD releases, comprising a repertoire which spans from the late baroque period up to contemporary music...
The vocal ensemble amarcord has been performing since 1992 – this spring the five singers appeared on stage together for the 1000th time...
The ensemble David Orlowsky Trio was awarded an ECHO Klassik prize 2008 in the category “Klassik ohne Grenzen” (“Classical music without boundaries”).
New CD released by Per Arne Glorvigen and contains works by Bach and Piazzolla. The recording leads accoustically through the developement of the bandoneon, starting in German churches, spread throughout Europe and ended in agrentinian brothels.
After three extremely successful CDs with vocal music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, amarcord turns this time to the wonderful French vocal music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exquisite singers from Leipzig once again demonstrate their amazing versatility. This recording will be presented by amarcord with concerts in Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin, Essen and Hamburg.
Just released: new CD of Marco Beasley & Accordone. "Il Settecento Napoletano" focuses on the 18th century cantatas at te height of their refinement and ingenuity, as well as on the Mediterranean colour and emotional richness of Neapolitan dialect - musical settings of poetry about the eternal and mysterious theme of love.
On May 26th 2007 Accordone performs at the Mozarteum Salzburg. The concert programme will be the one of their new recording "Il settecento Napolitano".
out now: "The Book of Madrigals"- amarcord's latest record has just been released and contains 33 madrigals of the European Renaissance Era.
To the 8th Festival for Vocal Music Leipzig from May 4th to May 12th 2007, the artistic directors of amarcord have once again invited top-class groups from all over the world. The Swedish ensemble The Real Group is going to sing again after their great success at 2004‘s festival, and also the German pop-a cappella-group Basta, celebrated by the audience in Leipzig at the a cappella festival 2003 is giving another concert. In addition, the Belgian renaissance-ensemble Capilla Flamenca and the German sextet Singer pur are going to perform.
Newly introduced is going to be the a cappella contest for vocal groups, where promising young a cappella ensembles are going to compete to win the LEIPZIG-A-CAPPELLA-AWARD. The awardee will then perform at the final concert of the festival on May 12th at the Gewandhaus, together with amarcord and others at the festival participating groups.
In February 2007, the singers of the vocal ensemble amarcord will take part as soloists at two performances of Monteverdi‘s Marienvesper. The project with the Monteverdi-Choir Hamburg and the Lautten Compagney under the artistic direction of Gothart Stier is going to be performed at St. Michael‘s church in Hamburg as well as at St. Thomas‘ church in Leipzig.
On January 26th 2007, amorcord will give its debut at the renowned Wigmore Hall in London. The concert hall, built in 1901, is regarded as one of the world‘s great recital halls of classical music. amarcord is going to perform the program of its new CD with madrigals, which is going to be released the day of the concert. Before its appearance in London, the ensemble is going to give another concert in Cambridge.
Last summer, amarcord as awardee of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival 2004 took part in the Kammermusikfest (chamber music festival) together with several other former awardees. Led by Daniel Hope, awardee in residence of this year‘s festival, the five singers performed in uncommon and unique formations, among others with Veronika Eberle (violin), Matthias Schoorn (clarinet) and the London International Piano Quintet.
The 2005 at Carus published recording of Johann Adolf Hasse‘s Requiem in E flat major and Miserere in D minor with the Dresdner Kammerchor, the Dresdner Barockorchester and conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann was put on the “Bestenliste“ (list of the best) of the German Record Critics' Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik). The award was inaugurated in 1963 to set the “most rigorous standards for supreme achievement“ in the field of recording.
This December, the Dresdner Kammerchor (Dresden Chamber Choir) is going to perform Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio in four different countries. The concerts will take place December 19th in Metz (France), December 20th in Saarbrücken (Germany), December 22nd in Schaan (Liechtenstein) and December 23rd in Lucerne (Switzerland).
The performance of Bach‘s Mass in B minor conducted by Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller in the St. Thomas church Leipzig ranked among one of the musical highlights of the mdr Musiksommer this year. The program with Geistliche Chormusik (spiritual choir music) of Heinrich Schütz at the Rheingau music festival also met large approval: "the choir, beyond all perfectionistic smoothness, did not pile up the monumental statement of this music, but holds it in the suppleness of its declamation and in the calm, bright expressivity." (Frankfurter Neue Presse) Furthermore the ensemble sang in cooperation with the Dresdner Barockorchester the final concert of the Fest Alter Musik (Festival of Early Music) in the Ore Mountains and performed at the Festival of European church music Schwäbisch Gmünd as well as at the Brandenburg summer concerts.
In September 2006, the Leipzig String Quartet published another CD with quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. The eighth CD of the ensemble‘s Beethoven series has been published by the company Music Production Dabringhaus and Grimm and contains the string quartet in E minor, op. 59,2 as well as the string quartet in F minor, op. 95.
Between February 4th and 10th, Per Arne Glorvigen will be heard together with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie (New Lausitz Philharmonic) in five concerts in the Saxon cities of Hoyerswerda, Bautzen, Görlitz, Zittau and Kamenz. The performances will include Bernd Franke‘s Open doors for bandoneon and orchestra as well as Astor Piazzolla‘s concert for bandoneon, percussion and strings. The successful world premiere of Open doors, which Bernd Franke dedicated to Per Arne Glorvigen, has been in 2003 with Glorvigen as soloist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
After the great success of the performances of Astor Piazzolla‘s tango-chamber opera at the beginning of 2006 at the Komische Oper Berlin, the piece will be in the repertoire again next February and March. Per Arne Glorvigen is the musical director and bandoneonist of the so-called "Operita". Composed by Piazzolla in 1968 to a libretto of the eccentric poet Horacio Ferrer, the opera soon became an important stage piece of world music. At the Komische Oper Berlin, the opera has been staged by the director Katja Czellnik this year.
In spring 2007, the Dresdner Kammerchor (Dresden Chamber Choir) will cooperate with three world-famous Saxon orchestras. On March 24th, Strawinsky‘s Mass for choir and wind instruments will be performed in the Frauenkirche Dresden together with the Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Sir Roger Norrington. Performances of Bach‘s St. Matthew‘s Passion with the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra and conductor Riccardo Chailly will follow March 29th and 30th. Together with the Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden philharmonic orchestra) and its principal conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the choir will give another concert in the Frauenkirche Dresden on May 5th, Beethoven‘s Mass in C major will be played.
Several concert tours have led Accordone across the European continent this year. The ensemble performed at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as well as the Teatro National in Madrid and has also had great success in Potsdam, Regensburg, St. Pölten, Bruges, Brussels and Vilnius.
For the label cypres, Accordone with its singer Marco Beasley has published two new CDs in the past twelve months: Frottole (2005) and Recitar Cantando (2006) form the first two parts of a trilogy which is to be completed by the planned album Settecento Napoletano. "The charmful voice of Marco Beasley gives the suitable expression to the old love songs; there is nothing artificial or finicky to be heard. Instead a voice sounding simple and natural." (WDR 5, Scala)
Since April 2006, CDs of the ensemble Accordone are directly available through the German distributor Note 1. Since its foundation in 1996, Note 1 quickly emerged to become one of the leading German distributors for classical music. Primarily the artistic quality and the repertoire of the distributed lables have contributed to this fact.