The Sitkovetsky Trio performed at St. Georgen Church in Parchim on July 1, 2026 - and the PARRY AUDIO broadcast van recorded the concert for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Broadcast date: September 3, 2026, 8:00 p.m.
The name of violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky has become synonymous with the world’s major concert stages. But the musician is known and loved not only as a soloist and musical director or as a chamber music partner of Julia Fischer. As early as 2007, he founded an outstanding piano trio that bears his name. In 2009, it won the Ensemble Prize at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Now, these award-winning artists can once again be experienced at a festival concert, featuring works by Beethoven, among others, whose piano trios the ensemble released in a highly acclaimed complete recording in 2024.
Foto Sitkovetsky Trio © Vincy Ng
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Recording Engineer: Tim Arnold
Technician: Ruth Günther
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
The renowned vocal ensemble performed a program titled “From Byrd to the Beach Boys” at the Nikolaikirche in Rostock as part of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. The concert was recorded using PARRY AUDIO’s OB van for broadcast on July 15, 2026, on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 8 pm. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/the-king-s-singers-bei-den-festspielen-mecklenburg-vorpommern
The King's Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world's greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group's rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations. In Rostock, the King’s Singers performed, for once, as a quintet due to a new born baby.
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Recording Engineer: Hein Laabs
Technician: Ruth Günther
PARRY AUDIO is pleased to support the Landesmusikrat’s efforts with audio equipment to document the Landesjugendorchester’s concert. As the City of Hamburg’s select youth orchestra, the LJO has been an integral part of the young musicians’ scene for over 55 years. In the spring concerts, under the direction of Johannes Witt, some 90 musicians aged 14–25 will perform works by great composers of the late Romantic period.
The patron of the LJO Hamburg is the First Mayor, Dr. Peter Tschentscher. The ensemble is sponsored by the Landesmusikrat in der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg e. V. and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media.
Programm:
Landesjugendorchester Hamburg
Ann-Beth Solvang, Mezzosopran
Johannes Witt, Dirigent
Richard Strauss: Lieder
Zueignung op. 10/1
Wiegenlied op. 41/1
Meinem Kinde op. 37/3
Morgen! op. 27/4
Gustav Mahler
Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur
Audio Equipment and mixing: PARRY AUDIO
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
Using PARRY AUDIO’s OB van, the concert in the foyer of the Kreissparkasse Verden was recorded for Deutschlandfunk Kultur as part of the Maiklänge festival and broadcast on May 29, 2026.
Edvard Grieg: Suite “From Holberg’s Time,” Op. 40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56
Natalia Lomeiko, violin
Daishin Kashimoto, violin
Sindy Mohamed, viola
Claudio Bohórquez, cello
José Gallardo, piano
Orchestra of the Barenboim-Said Academy
Conductor: Nabil Shehata
The concert is available in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur media library www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Recording engineer: Jan Stahlmann
Technician: Wulf Schnaase
The Duplex Piano returns to the Elbphilharmonie. Around 1920, composer Emanuel Moór had a vision of building the piano of the future. His two-manual Duplex Piano emerged from the spirit of the late Romantic era and offers even more timbres and greater sonority. On a standard piano, striking a key causes a hammer to strike the string. On the Duplex Piano, two hammers can be coupled: a single keystroke then produces two notes simultaneously. This doubling of the notes results in an unexpected richness of sound at forte and a magical brilliance of tones at piano. The two manuals allow for nuanced layering of sound. The concert spans a wide range from Brahms to Josef Tal and Emanuel Moór to Ravel’s iconic Boléro. The concert recording, made using PARRY AUDIO’s mobile technology, was broadcast on NDR Kultur as part of the series Das Konzert on May 14, 2026, and is available in the media library for one year at www.ndr.de/kultur.
Albrecht Menzel, violin - Hiyoli Togawa, viola - David Stromberg, cello - Cornelia Monske, percussion - Florian Uhlig, piano
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther
Video: Studio 17
Johannes Schmidt
Niklas Jansen
Through the Elise Meyer Foundation competition, music students at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre can receive recognition and additional support in the form of professional video recordings, personalized coaching, and opportunities to perform in concerts. The audio for the 2025 winners’ video recordings was produced using mobile equipment from PARRY AUDIO.
Recording Producer: Karola Parry, Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Ruth Günther
Video: Burkhard Scheibe
Jephte - Judicium Salomonis - Motets
Long before our modern age of mass communication, composer Giacomo Carissimi built a celebrated international reputation without ever leaving Italy. In the middle of the 17th century, visitors and students from across Europe traveled to Rome, drawn by Carissimi’s incomparable ability to give vibrant musical expression to every emotion and every word. With even Handel quoting the final chorus of Jephte in his Sampson decades after Carissimi’s death, his profound influence on the musical development of a generation of Baroque composers is clear.
After recently winning a GRAMMY for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, the Boston Early Music Festival now turns its attention to the work of this extraordinary composer in a brand-new recording of two exceptional oratorios—“Jephte” and “Judicium Salomonis”—as well as beautiful motets in Latin and Italian. Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs conduct the BEMF Chamber Ensemble and the Vocal Ensemble, featuring Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Danielle Reutter-Harrah (soprano), Felix Schwandtke (bass), James Reese (tenor), Aaron Sheehan (tenor), Cecilia Duarte (mezzo-soprano), and Sarah Hayashi (soprano).
Label: CPO
The CD has been recorded in the Sendesaal Bremen.
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound Engineer : Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
String ensemble meets hip-hop crew: Drawing inspiration from Igor Stravinsky’s ballet "Apollon musagète", the musicians of Ensemble Resonanz collaborated with professionals from the HipHop Academy Hamburg to create the new, cross-genre piece "Masters of Ceremony". Together, they explore what the ballet—which premiered in 1928 and features the god Apollo dancing with three muses—means to us today, and they create new music based on the original. The interplay of breakdancing, rap, and string music gave rise to an extraordinary production, staged with set design and visuals in the Great Hall.
Ensemble Resonanz
HipHop Academy Hamburg
Director: Marlene Schleicher
Choreography: Professor Niels (Storm) Robitzky
Composition: Tobias Schwencke
Producer: George Brenner
Set and Costume Design: Thorben Schumüller
Dramaturgy: Charlotte Beinhauer
Hip Hop Music Advisor: Tim Dollmann
Sound Design: Manuel Horstmann
Mixing Producer: Karola Parry
Camera: Martin Cahl, Yannick Fuchs, Kea de Vries
Video Technician: Robin Fischer
Director, Editing: Christoph Hertel
Production Management: Tabea Küppers, Charlotte Beinhauer
Technical Project Management: Lars Bölcker
On Easter Monday, Johann Christian Bach’s opera "Amadis de Gaule", W G39, was performed in concert in the main hall of the Elbphilharmonie. The PARRY AUDIO OB van was stationed directly on the Elbe quay for the recording.
CPE.Bach.Chor.Hamburg
B’Rock Orchestra
Lenneke Ruiten -Oriane
Julia Sophie Wagner - Arcabonne
Ilker Arcayürek - Amadis
Krešimir Stražanac - Arcalaus
Conductor: Hansjörg Albrecht
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Recording Engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Torsten Gade
For the Elbphilharmonie Sessions, artists record exclusive music videos in the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle – sometimes away from the stage, in unusual locations. Here, every sound finds its own backdrop. For Ensemble Resonanz, the entire small hall of the Elbphilharmonie becomes a big stage.
Ensemble Resonanz plays Caroline Shaw's ‘Entr'Act’ for string orchestra.
Fotos: Sophie Wolter
Karola Parry, Recording & Mixing
André Neske, Karim von Lobenthal - Directors
Boheifilm GmbH, Video Production
Katrin Irretier, Technical Project Management
Julika von Werder, Christoph Hertel - Production Management
World Premiere Recording: On January 22, 2026, the Symphoniker Hamburg will release a new CD featuring works by composer Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933).
Ziling Guo, violin
Symphoniker Hamburg
Ulrich Windfuhr, conductor
Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 88
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 92
Following in the footsteps of his distant “great-uncle” Felix, Arnold Mendelssohn (1853–1933) achieved high esteem, especially in the field of Protestant church music, in which his famous relative had already distinguished himself. In contrast, his serious engagement with the classical-romantic instrumental genres did not begin until the First World War, as if the composer wanted to reassure himself of tradition before the old structures collapsed. He was already approaching his seventies when he wrote his violin concerto and, immediately afterwards, the second of his three symphonies – two witty masquerades whose broad spectrum between expressive meditation and cheerful finale offers plenty of room for reminiscences, but never leads to imitation: the man who juggles with symbols is not at the mercy of the past. He masters it with confidence.
Label: CPO
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther
On January 29, 2026, the radio play will be broadcast on DLF Kultur!
An audio piece on the phenomenology of hearing in three parts
“Can you hear the crackling in your ears? How the tentacles of sound waves grow out and feel their way through the world?” What makes you prick up your ears and stirs your memory? Five voices speak to you and ask, “What do you hear?” You immerse yourself in the phenomenon of the sensuality of hearing. A shimmering, crackling, and rustling sound collage awakens memories of the familiar for just a few brief moments. Our two ears enable us to recognize the direction from which the sound is coming. When you focus your attention on the headphones, the shift of the sound source to the left, right, front, or back can give you the feeling of how sound makes you sway. At the same time, the sound collage attunes you to the world and sensuality of your hearing.
https://www.dodoschielein.de/portfolio/hoerst-du/
Author, director, editing, sound design, and composition: Dodo Schielein
Mixing & Mastering: Karola Parry
A production by the KunstHasserStammtisch (Art Haters' Round Table) at noroomgallery in cooperation with artist Eske Schlüters.
“Everything can be an image of everything” can be heard at www.freie-radios.net.
Eske Schlüters' central subject is a sentence by Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Everything can be an image of everything.” In philosophical re-readings, the author and artist develops a feminist-based writing in quotation marks that speaks of possible and impossible images that are conceived beyond the visual.
The recording was made at PARRY AUDIO Studio using an artificial head.
Speaker: Iris Minich, Jörn Knebel, Marie Biermann
Recording engineer: Karola Parry
The new CD by Tabea Zimmermann and Ensemble Resonanz has been released and is already Album of the Week and CD Tip at BR Klassik, where it is highly praised as a “simply delightful interpretation”! www.br-klassik.de/aktuell
From the youthful sound of Enescu's Octet to Britten's touching late composition “Lachrymae,” Ensemble Resonanz and Tabea Zimmermann let us rediscover two world-encompassing works—full of inner movement, between retrospection, melancholy, and transcendence. The recording showcases the ensemble's supreme musical precision and joy of playing, characterized by collective dedication and Zimmermann's concept of “shared pulsation.”
George Enescu (1881-1955) String Octet in C major, Op. 7 (version for string orchestra)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Lachrymae, “Reflections on a song by John Dowland,” Op. 48a (version for solo viola and string orchestra)
Tabea Zimmermann - Viola & artistic direction
Ensemble Resonanz
Recorded in January 2024 at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Ruth Günther
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cantatas of Peace and Pleasure - Recommendation for January 2026 www.klassik-heute.de and five golden tuning forks in Diapason February 2026!
The Boston Early Music Festival's recording explores the magnificent vocal cantatas of Roman composer Marco Marazzoli. Musical Directors Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs lead an all-star roster of singers and instrumentalists in Marazzoli's extravagant musical entertainments. These miniature dramas present a kaleidoscopic variety of arias, duets, trios, and quartets culminating in glorious choruses for six voices.
Marco Marazzoli was a harpist, tenor, and composer who wrote more than 380 cantatas for one to six voices, in addition to operas, oratorios, motets, and liturgical works. Each six-voice cantatas featured here treats a different subject: one features Bacchus and his followers overindulging in the grape harvest, another recounts Radamisto’s daring escape from the clutches of vengeful King Tiridate. Il Riposo conjures the peace and tranquility of the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, while another, La Guerra e la Pace, is an allegory of the struggle between War and Peace. The cantatas survive in nearly illegible autograph scores in the Vatican archives, which is undoubtedly the main reason these works have not been performed in modern times, despite the extraordinary quality of the music itself.
Carlotta Colombo, Danielle Reutter-Harrah & Alissa Magee soprano
James Reese & Aaron Sheehan tenor
Jesse Blumberg & Mauro Borgioni baritone
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Sarah Darling violin I
Jesse Irons violin II
Christel Thielmann viola da gamba
David Morris viola da gamba & lirone
Maxine Eilander Baroque harp
Paul O’Dette chitarrone
Stephen Stubbs Baroque guitar
Michael Sponseller harpsichord & organ
Label: CPO
The CD has been recorded in the Sendesaal Bremen.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer : Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
The CD featuring works by composer Maria Herz wins the Opus KLassik 2025 award in the category World Premiere Recording of the Year!
https://www.opusklassik.de/award-winners-2025
CD production with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Christiane Silber, conductor
Oliver Triendl, piano
Konstanze von Gutzeit, cello
Parts of the production have already been broadcast on March 8, 2023 in the series 'Die besondere Aufnahme' on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Editor: Stefan Lang
Co-Production Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Capricco
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer DLFK: Henri Thaon/Lukas Wilke
Technicians DLFK: Gunda Hercke, Anton Bruns, Weronika Marta Malinowska
In the grand hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, Daniel Harding, music director of the Rome orchestra, sets sail on the high seas as captain of a fully crewed ship of sound at the Berlin Music Festival. With Claude Debussy's “La Mer,” the musicians of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia plunge into meditative, ecstatic waves and, together with the singers of London Voices, embark on a journey with Luciano Berio's ‘Sinfonia’ – according to the composer – “on the Mediterranean Sea of Western art music.” In the “Folk Songs,” mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená presents Berio's musical discoveries. The concert was recorded for broadcast on September 18, 2025, on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Magdalena Kožená – mezzo-soprano
London Voices
Ben Parry – choir rehearsal
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Daniel Harding – conductor
Luciano Berio
Sinfonia (1968/69)
for eight voices and orchestra
in five movements
Folk Songs (1964/1973)
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Claude Debussy
La Mer (1903–05)
Three symphonic sketches for orchestra
Foto Daniel Harding © Musaccio Musa
Editor DLF Kultur: Olaf Wilhelmer
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound Engineer: Peter Weinsheimer DLFK
Technician: Rufus Zeller, Felix Wagner DLFK
For a CD production, recordings with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston took place in August 2025 at the Sendesaal Bremen.
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Artistic leaders - Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
Label: CPO
Camille Delaforge conducted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots” (The Duty of the First Commandment), which Mozart composed at the age of 11, at the Unser Lieben Frauen Church in Bremen. The concert was recorded for broadcast on Deutschlandfunk/Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Ensemble Il Caravaggio
Lila Dufy, soprano
Mathilde Ortscheidt, mezzo-soprano
Mathias Vidal, tenor
Jordan Mouaissia, tenor
Camille Delaforge, conductor
Photo: Camille Delaforge © Emilie Brouchon
Editors: Oliver Cech (DLF), Mascha Drost (DLFK)
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Aki Matusch
Technician: Philip Arthus
Science as a compass – outstanding scientists come to the PARRY AUDIO studio to record podcasts for the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg. Most recently, Dagmar Penzlin spoke with Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, Prof. Dr. Dana-Sophia Valentiner , Prof. Dr. Friedrich Geiger, Prof. Dr. Christian Brockmann, Prof. Dr. Philippe Depreux, Prof. Dr. Anja Pistor-Hatam, Prof. Dr. Barbara Bröker, Prof. Dr. Annette Haug, Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska, Prof. Dr. Beáta Wagner-Nagy and Prof. Dr. Siegfried Oechsle.
Podcast Akademie der Wissenschaften
Moderation: Dagmar Penzlin
Recording: Karola Parry
As part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Hellen Weiß (violin) and Gabriel Schwabe (cello) performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, and others.
The audio recordings for the video of the two artists were made using mobile equipment from PARRY AUDIO.
Photo: Nancy Horowitz
Karola Parry, recording & mixing
Christian Kalnbach, video and film editing
Lully: Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier: La Fête de Rueil - accomodation www.klassik-heute.de
The Boston Early Music Festival's new Baroque opera recording returns to the French Baroque with a pair of chamber operas by Lully and Charpentier on the German label CPO (Classic Produktion Osnabrück). GRAMMY Award–winning Musical Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs and Concertmaster Robert Mealy lead the all-star Boston Early Music Festival Vocal and Chamber Ensembles in Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil.
Both works were commissioned in 1685 for lavish garden parties planned by French courtiers to celebrate King Louis XIV. Both pieces feature an idyllic utopia where shepherds in the French countryside celebrate a recent truce “given” to Europe by the Sun King. The genius of Charpentier and Lully raises these formal tributes to musical masterpieces where dazzling singing combines with charming dances in a vivid depiction of the people’s desire for peace.
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, Teresa Wakim, Mireille Lebel, James Reese, Jason McStoots, Aaron Sheehan, John-Taylor Ward, Jonathan Woody, 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
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