Brautigam Kolner Akademie Willens - Works for Piano & OrchestraCarl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognized as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation. Especially during the 1810s he toured extensively, and like other composer pianists he wrote works to use as his personal calling cards, among them the

With a background that boasts 10 albums

2022 collection

Lee Williams

Schäfer's sublime performance invites us to consider the prescience of the young Mozart with "Sol Nascente" meaning rising sun written at the advent of the new Classical era

in the truest sense of the word

instead of seeing the genre-divided subsets that dictated the way Americans consumed music

he remains virtually unknown today

the goddess of knowledge

But after their luggage is accidentally switched

classic sound that at once looks at the past while leaning into their own

Curtis reworks some tapes from his vaults with the assistance of choice friends with great effect

and he therefore decided to write a cycle of works for these ensembles - compositions to be performed separately or as 'movements' forming a greater whole