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
The album by the Boston Early Music Festival & Chamber Ensembles featuring works by Georg Philipp Telemann, including the cantata “Ino,” has been nominated for 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
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.
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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
The Boston Early Music Festival's newest 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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