MIDNIGHT CLASSICS Vol. 1
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Midnight Classics
Music just to relax...
by Bach, Torelli and Mozart
DDD · Duration: 52 Min. 13 Sec.
Digital Album · 8 Tracks
MP3 Album
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ublishing Authentic Classical Concerts entails for us capturing and recording outstanding performances and concerts for posterity. The performers, audience, opus and room enter into an intimate dialogue that in its form and expression, its atmosphere, is unique and unrepeatable. It is our aim, the philosophy of our house, to enable the listener to acutely experience every facet of this symbiosis, the intensity of the performance, so we record the concerts in direct 2-Track Stereo digital HD. The results are unparalleled interpretations of musical and literary works, simply - audiophile snapshots of permanent value. Flourishing culture, enthralling the audience and last but not least also you the listener, are the values we endeavor to document in our editions and series.
The concerts at the UNESCO World Heritage Maulbronn Monastery supply the ideal conditions for our aspirations. It is, above all, the atmosphere of the romantic, candle-lit arches, the magic of the monastery in its unadulterated sublime presence and tranquillity that impresses itself upon the performers and audience of these concerts. Renowned soloists and ensembles from the international arena repeatedly welcome the opportunity to appear here - enjoying the unparalleled acoustic and architectural beauty of this World Heritage Site, providing exquisite performances of secular and sacred music, documented by us in our Maulbronn Monastery Edition.
Music that is new, pieces worth listening to and well worth conserving, little treasures from the traditional and the avantgarde - music that is unimaginable anywhere else but in the hotbed of Europe - we capture these in our Castle Concerts Series of recordings in their original settings in cooperation with Volker Northoff.
The concert grand piano is incontestably the king of instruments. We could now wax lyrical about its incomparable dynamics and go into its ability to go from the tenderest of sounds in a soft minor key to the magnificent power of a fortissimo, or I could rhapsodise about its impressive size and elegance. But what makes this instrument really fascinating is its individuality, since each one is unique in itself - created by a master. A concert grand has a life all of its own that a virtuoso can really "get into" and hence bring the work of the composer to life. In our Grand Piano Masters Series, we get into the character and soul of the concert grand piano and experience, during the performance itself, the dialogue between the instrument, the virtuoso and the performance space.
Andreas Otto Grimminger & Josef-Stefan Kindler, K&K Verlagsanstalt
1. Sonata No. 3
for Violin & Harpsichord, BWV 1016
by Johann Sebastin Bach
I. Adagio
Performed by the Wolfgang Bauer Consort
2. Sonata in D Major, G 1
by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
III. Grave
Performed by the Wolfgang Bauer Consort
3. Violin Concerto No. 5
in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish"
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
II. Adagio
Performed by Linus Roth (Violin, Stradivari Dancla) and the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jörg Faerber
4. Piano Concerto No. 23
in A Major, K. 488
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
II. Adagio
Performed by Christoph Soldan (Piano) and the Cappella Istropolitana under the direction of Pawel Przytocki
5. Piano Concerto No. 17
in G Major, K. 463
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
II. Andante
Performed by Christoph Soldan (Piano) and the Cappella Istropolitana under the direction of Pawel Przytocki
6. Piano Concerto No. 21
in C Major K. 467
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
II. Andante
Performed by Christoph Soldan (Piano) and the Silesian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Pawel Przytocki
7. Symphony No. 36
in C Major, K. 425 "Linz"
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
II. Andante
Performed by the Silesian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Pawel Przytocki
8. Great G Minor Symphony No. 40, K. 550
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Molto Allegro
Performed by the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Jörg Faerber
Sound & Recording Engineer: Andreas Otto Grimminger.
Mastering & Production: Andreas Otto Grimminger & Josef-Stefan Kindler.
Photography: Josef-Stefan Kindler.
Artwork & Coverdesign: Josef-Stefan Kindler.