In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Roman Trekel (baritone) and Francesco Piemontesi (piano) perform Gustav Mahler's Sieben Lieder Aus Letzter Zeit (1905), Bach / Busoni: Praeludium BWV 552 and Bach Transcriptions by Busoni and Kempff .
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have performed Beethoven's Sonatas for Violin and Piano in several concerts around the world but never before recorded them on period instruments. The immense care they have taken over documentation and performance has enabled them to get as close as possible to the composer's intention. Isabelle Faust plays the famous Stradivari Sleeping Beauty built in 1704, Alexander Melnikov performs on an original Graff piano from 1827 from his private collection.
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Gabriel Schwabe (cello) and Nicholas Rimmer (piano) perform Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata D 821 and Chopin's Sonata op. 65 for Cello and Piano.
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Francesco Piemontesi perform Debussy's Images livre II and Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano .
When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowed Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. Fourteen concerts were held, without audiences, under the name Home Music Berlin featuring some of the world's leading instrumentalists and singers. This collection of performances is testament to the resilience and solidarity of these artists during the pandemic.
From the very beginning, Jan Schmidt-Garre and feature film cameraman Michael Kotschi also documented the genesis of the project. Rehearsals, private scenes backstage, the setup, all the crazy working under the conditions of the lockdown. Talks with the artists and atmospheric pictures behind the scenes were created. In the summer of 2021, the musicians reunited and enjoyed the opportunity to meet again in larger numbers, celebrate and make music at a summer party.
When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowed Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. Fourteen concerts were held, without audiences, under the name Home Music Berlin featuring some of the world's leading instrumentalists and singers. This collection of performances is testament to the resilience and solidarity of these artists during the pandemic.
The concerts reflect the wealth of the music city Berlin. Artists from Russia, Ukraine, the US, England, Israel, Switzerland, France, Denmark and Germany took part, including great musicians such as Alexander Melnikov, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Jacquelyn Wagner, Isabelle Faust, Iddo Bar-Shai and Tabea Zimmermann. It would never have been possible to gather all these artists in a row without the lockdown. Just like a hundred years ago, the city of Berlin showed its very own artistic profile. Anyone who wanted to hear Furtwangler, Nikisch, Wilhelm Kempff, Busoni or Horowitz back then, when musicians travelled much less than they do today, had to come to Berlin. In order to hear...
When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowed Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. Fourteen concerts were held, without audiences, under the name Home Music Berlin featuring some of the world's leading instrumentalists and singers. This collection of performances is testament to the resilience and solidarity of these artists during the pandemic.
The concerts reflect the wealth of the music city Berlin. Artists from Russia, Ukraine, the US, England, Israel, Switzerland, France, Denmark and Germany took part, including great musicians such as Alexander Melnikov, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Jacquelyn Wagner, Isabelle Faust, Iddo Bar-Shai and Tabea Zimmermann. It would never have been possible to gather all these artists in a row without the lockdown. Just like a hundred years ago, the city of Berlin showed its very own artistic profile. Anyone who wanted to hear Furtwangler, Nikisch, Wilhelm Kempff, Busoni or Horowitz back then, when musicians travelled much less than they do today, had to come to Berlin. In order to hear...
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Violinist Veronika Eberle and pianist Francesco Piemontesi perform Mozart's Sonata for Violin and Piano K. 454 and Schubert's Sonata D 850 .
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Pianist Iddo Bar-Shai performs a selection of the Pieces de Clavecin by Couperin, Chopin's Mazurkas and the Sonata in D Hob. XVI/24 by Haydn .
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Pianist Zlata Chochieva performs a selection of Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte and Chopin's Etudes , the Mephisto Waltz No. 2 composed by Liszt , Rachmaninoff's Canon in E minor, Prelude in F, Fragments and Oriental Sketch , and Medtner's Canzona Serenata op. 38 .
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Pianist Severin von Eckardstein performs Prelude A L'Apres-midi d'un Faune by Debussy and Gryaznov , Chopin's Nocturne op. 27, Medtner's Elegy op. 59 and Fairy Tale op. 26 as well as Prokofiev's Sonata No. 8 .
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Tabea Zimmermann (viola) and Francesco Piemontesi (piano) perform Schumann's Phantasiestucke, Marchenbilder and Liszt's Romance Oubliee for Viola and Piano , as well as Liszt's 1st Legend for Piano and Reger's Suite No. 1 op. 131d for Viola .
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. Sharon Kam (clarinet), Jacquelyn Wagner (soprano) and Matan Porat (piano) perform Debussy's First Rhapsody, Poulenc's Sonata and Brahms's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano , Ravel's Une Barque Sur L'Ocean , and Schubert's The Shepherd On The Rock for Clarinet, Soprano and Piano.
Olena Tokar (soprano) and Igor Gryshyn (piano) perform a lieder and piano program, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on March 30, 2020. The program opens with five songs by Pauline Garcia-Viardot : Two Roses, On Georgia's Hills, Evening Song, The Gardener , and The Mermaid's Song . Grishin performs some solo piano works: Franz Schubert's Impromptu, Op. 90 , Nos. 2 and 3, and Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 30 . The program continues with Antonin Dvorak's Gypsy Songs, Op. 55 , and closes with four songs by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Op. 57 No. 1, Op. 63 No. 2, Op. 38 No. 2, and Op. 47 No. 6 .
In spring of 2020, concert halls fell silent. During those weeks, when people had to stay at home and musicians faced all their performances being canceled, a group of Berlin-based artists of international acclaim, in co-operation with awarded film producer Jan Schmidt-Garre and Naxos Audiovisual, set up a series of chamber music concerts performed and filmed at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. Jacquelyn Wagner (soprano) and Zlata Chochieva (piano) perform Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer .
