Fortune’s Musicke - Psalter und Harffe wacht auffAlthough his name sounds very familiar to us by the valley named after him, little is known about the life and personality of Neander so far. Born in Bremen, he studies reformed theology in his hometown and experiences his personal awakening through the sermon of a newly appointed pastor. He himself becomes an early supporter and representative of Pietism the reform movement among the Protestants who put piety and prayer into the center of religious

Besides chamber music and solo sonatas Wilms composed several symphonies and solo concertos (for flute

Seeking to bring that sound westward

powerful tone

settled in the Soviet occupation zone after exile during the Second World War and lived until his death as a politically loyal but also thoroughly dissident contemporary of the GDR

which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties

Mahler is not concerned with helping us understand every syllable

"Forty years on

The music of the quintessentially Czech composer Dvorák is

it features a truly once-in-a-lifetime assembly of creative music luminaries and legends

it leaves me almost satisfyingly exhausted

the film is a disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt

the large majority of them appearing on disc for the first time