Sanderling, Michael - Shchedrin, R.K.: Carmen Suite / Hindemith, P.: Trauermusik (2003)

Brilliant Youth
All students? Unbelievable but true! The German Philharmonic Strings, the top orchestra of German music schools and a national treasure for almost thirty years, plays with a musicality and at a technical standard that one only rarely encounters even with professionals. The ensemble’s soloists bring Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile (Isang Enders) and Hindemith’s Mourning Music (Birgit Weise) to life and imbue them with breath, with the main work on the CD, Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite, providing first-class orchestral fireworks in which one doesn’t miss wind players or singers for a moment! The new GENUIN CD belongs on every opera lover’s shelf and on every chamber orchestra fan’s as well. And on every violin lover’s, and viola fan’s, and cello enthusiast’s, and double bass … Right, actually on everybody’s shelf!

"This CD has been made with love and care – Deutschlandradio Berlin/Genuin have given a forum to the youthful Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie (German Philharmonic Strings). Michael Sanderling ably proves himself as a Kapellmeister in the best sense; without pose, he allows the eminent talents of the often barely twenty-year-old musicians to flower… The homogeneity and transparency of the sound, as well as the broad range of the dynamic spectrum, are among the special features of this ensemble."