15.06.2026

The album by the Boston Early Music Festival & Chamber Ensembles featuring works by Georg Philipp Telemann, including the cantata “Ino,” wins the Grammy 2026 in the category Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! https://www.grammy.com/news/2026-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list 

"This is the perfect Telemann recording, which anyone involved in this repertoire should listen to. Highly recommended!" (Klassik heute)

"Gramophone Editor's Choice: January 2025 | The best new classical recordings"

"Amanda Forsythe and the orchestra of the Boston Earlyy Music Festival conjure exceptional stylish elegance and theatrical vitality in the flowing sequence of orchestrally accompanied recitatives, ariosos, dances and arias."

Amanda Forsythe, Robert Mealy, Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

Label: CPO

The CD has been recorded in the Sendesaal Bremen.

Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer : Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann

15.05.2026

With raw energy and pulsating sonic power, the Gezeitenkonzerte are making their debut at a Schüt-Duis production hall. The industrial atmosphere of this unique venue provides the ideal setting for an extraordinary concert experience, where rhythm and space merge in a striking way to ignite a fireworks display of timbres. The concert was recorded for Deutschlandfunk Kultur using PARRY AUDIO’s OB van.

For percussion virtuoso and composer Alexej Gerassimez, rhythm is omnipresent: for him, everyday materials, movements, and surfaces conceal an inexhaustible reservoir of sounds. Together with his three ensemble partners, the Essen-born artist explores these themes in “Elements of Drum”—a program that is causing a sensation internationally. At the center is Gerassimez’s “Suite of Elements,” in which he transforms the elements of water, stone, wood, skin, and metal into fascinating soundscapes and makes them musically tangible. Gerassimez promises a “mind-expanding journey of discovery,” using the program to reflect on our relationship with resources and the environment. In addition to traditional percussion instruments such as the marimba and snare drum, the performance also incorporates unexpected sound sources: water bowls, bottles, sieves, stones, and even the performers’ own bodies become part of the musical experience. Movements from Philip Glass’s minimalist music suite “Aguas da Amazonia” serve as musical bridges between the individual elements. Works by Eric Whitacre, John Adams, and Mátyás Wettl, as well as additional compositions by Alexej Gerassimez himself, round out the program. The result is an intense dialogue between music, elements, and space—a concert that transcends the boundaries of traditional performance venues and draws the audience right into a powerful interplay of sound, rhythm, and atmosphere.

Alexej Gerassimez Percussion Collective
Alexej Gerassimez - Lukas Böhm - Simon Klavžar - Emil Kuyumcuyan 

Recording producer: Karola Parry
Recording engineer: Frank Jacobsen
Technician: Ruth Günther