Science as a compass - for the recordings of the podcast of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, outstanding scientists come to the studio of PARRY AUDIO. Most recently, Dagmar Penzlin was in conversation with Prof. Dr. Christian Brockmann, Prof. Dr. Philippe Depreux, Prof. Dr. Anja Pistor-Hatam, Prof. Dr. Barbara Bröker (Institute for Immunology, University of Greifswald), Prof. Dr. Annette Haug (Classical Archaeology, University of Kiel), Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy University of Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Beáta Wagner-Nagy (Finnougristics/Uralistics, University of Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Siegfried Oechsle (Musicology, University of Kiel).
Podcast Akademie der Wissenschaften
Moderation: Dagmar Penzlin
Recordings: Karola Parry
Recordings for a CD production took place with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston in August 2024 at the Sendesaal Bremen.
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Orchestra
Artistic leaders - Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
Co-Production - BEMF, CPO
PARRY AUDIO has been working with the Singelmann advertising agency since 2023 for the English language recordings of Monblanc product videos for worldwide distribution. In April 2024, 18 new videos of the High Artistry line were recorded in the Ottenser Studio.
Project support Singelmann advertising agency: Stefanie Schettler
Dubbing artist: Jocasta Godlieb
Sound engineer: Karola Parry
Photo: Montblanc House in Hamburg-Lurup, opening in 2022, designed by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano.
The recordings for a CD with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under the direction of Gregor Bühl took place in the Philharmonie Ludwigshafen with Harriet Krijgh, cello and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, violin.
Co-Produktion Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR und cappriccio
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Ingbert Neumeister
Technician: Rosemarie Neumeister
For a CD production of works by the composer Dorothee Schabert, recordings were made in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle using mobile technology from PARRY AUDIO. A quintet of the Ensemble Resonanz played.
Gregor Diercks, violin
Benjamin Spillner, violin
Benedikt Schneider
Saerom Park; violoncello
Benedict Ziervogel, double bass
Recording producer: Karola Parry
For a CD production, recordings with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston took place in January 2024 at the Sendesaal Bremen.
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Orchestra
Artistic leaders - Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs & Robert Mealy - Concertmaster
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
Co-Production - BEMF, Radio Bremen, CPO
For a CD production, recordings with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston took place in August 2023 at the Sendesaal Bremen.
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Orchestra
Artisti leaders - Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs
Robert Mealy - Concertmaster
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
Co-Production - BEMF, CPO, Radio Bremen
British and American speakers came to PARRY AUDIO studio for the recordings for the educational media editorial team of eSchoolbook. With different accents, lots of fun and now and then accompanied by some unusual acoustic background, audio texts are created for a young audience.
Recording: Karola Parry
Picture: ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28772
For a new CD project sponsored by the German Music Council, the recordings of the cycle Impulsive Lieder by Benjamin Scheuer were made in the studio of PARRY AUDIO.
Composition - Benjamin Scheuer
Andreas Fischer - bass
Delphine Grataloup - flute
Pedro Pablo Cámara - saxophone
Margit Kern - accordion
Recording producer: Karola Parry
The recording of the English version of the exciting musical fairy tale "Die Orchestermäuse - The Orchestra Mice" for children by Howard Griffiths with music by Fabian Künzli took place with the British radio and television announcer Katie Derham in a recording studio in London.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
What makes a good biography? For the 3 hour radio show 'Lange Nacht' on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the recordings were made in the studio of PARRY AUDIO.
"How it came to this, why biography had to fight for its reputation for so long, what problems it raises, what its detractors and its defenders have to say - these are the topics of the first hour of our "Long Night of Biography".
In the second hour we turn to some biographical projects: about the actress Ingrid Bergman, the writer Albert Camus and about the Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer. We talk to the biographers and learn about their motivations, but also about the obstacles and frustrations that inevitably come with researching someone else's life.
Finally, the third hour focuses on the extremely involved research that resulted in the three-volume biography of Kafka by Reiner Stach, the author of this program - a standard work that has since been translated into numerous languages. Wiebke Porombka talks with Stach."
Broadcast Deutschlandfunk Kultur 7/23/2022
Image Franz Kafka 1923
Author: Reiner Stach
Director: Daniela Herzberg
Moderation: Wiebke Porombka
Narrators: Stephan Schad, Nina Petri, Oliver Mallison, Peter Weis, Max Simonischek
Editor Deutschlandfunk: Dr. Monika Künzel
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Rediscovery: The Opera "Santa Chiara" by Duke Ernst II in Meiningen
Romantic opera in three acts
Charlotte - Lena Kutzner, soprano
Bertha - Marianne Schechtel, mezzo-soprano
Victor - Patrick Vogel, tenor
Alexis - Johannes Mooser, baritone
Aurelius - Rafael Helbig-Kostka, tenor
Alphonse - Tomasz Wija, bass-baritone
Herbert - Mikko Järviluoto, bass
Choir of the Meiningen State Theater
Meiningen Court Orchestra
Conductor: Philippe Bach
Direction: Hendrik Müller
Photo Christina Iberl
https://www.staatstheater-meiningen.de/produktionen/santa-chiara
Recording from 18.02.2022, broadcast Deutschlandfunk Kultur on 2. April 2022, 19:05
Editor and moderation DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Stefan Heinen
Technician: Nils Heinen
In corona times the recordings for the global, virtual Cleveland piano competition Virtu(al)oso took place in Cleveland, New York, London, Beijing as well as in the Steinwayhaus in Hamburg. The pianists were filmed at these different locations and the jury determined the winner in two rounds with the help of video streams and the professional sound recordings.
Here you can find the videos of the sessions 1 and 2 of the competition, and more information about Piano Cleveland here.
Audio consultant and sound in Hamburg: Karola Parry
Video production Hamburg: Lémuel and Wiebke Grave
Livestream of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Mariss Jansons on 5.6.2019 in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Highlight of the season 2018/19!
Robert Schumann
Sinfonie Nr. 1 B-Dur op. 38
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique / Episode de la vie d'un artiste op. 1
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Audio Technical Staff: Gerrit Beutler, Lars Bölcker, Jannes Freckmann
Technical Director: Matthias Baumgartner
Director: Martin Feil
Nick Cave summons the ghost of Franz Schubert. A »Winterreise« of failure - recorded by PARRY AUDIO mobile equipment on November 6th and 7th in Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie kleiner Saal.
Charly Hübner (Voice), Kalle Kalima (Guitar), Carlos Bica (Doublebass), Max Andrzejewski (Drums), Tobias Schwencke (Arrangement), Sebastian Schottke (Sounddesign), Ensemble Resonanz
Recording Producer, Balance Engineer: Karola Parry
Technician: Rouven Öttjes
Sound Assistent: Ruth Günther
“Ich will Dir mein Herze schenken” The CD by Michel organist Magnus Draagen combines romantic arrangements for organ of cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, played on the various organs of Hamburg's main church. The recordings were made in April 2024 in St. Michaelis with mobile equipment from PARRY AUDIO.
www. st-michaelis.de/michel-musik
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Assistance: Ruth Günther
Great review at PianoNews 5/2024! Interpretation, Sound, Repertoire each 6 out of 6 points - CD of the Months September and October 2024!
The GENUIN debut album of Moscow-born and Hamburg-based pianist Elizaveta Don brings together "Préludes" by three great composers: Claude Debussy, Dmitri Shostakovich, and the lesser-known yet equally significant works by Frank Martin.
Recorded at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg-Harburg, July 2020
Piano: Steinway D, Klangmanufaktur (Hamburg)
Label: Genuin
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Editing: Karola Parry
The new album with works by composer Maria Herz is Album of the Week at BR Klassik:
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/br-klassik-empfiehlt/cd/maria-herz-orchesterwerke-album-der-woche
Reviews of the CD in Fono Forum August 2024 and at Pizzicato https://www.pizzicato.lu/weitere-entdeckungen-von-maria-herz/
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
An accolade for a saxophonist: Asya Fateyeva is Artist in Residence at the Schlesigholstein Music Festival SHMF and with her new album "To the Muse", whose orchestral works were recorded with the Saarland State Orchestra under the direction of Sebastién Rouland in the large broadcasting hall of the Saarland Broadcasting Centre Halberg.
"A sensation for the music world," writes the FAZ about Asya Fateyeva. The musician has established herself as an ambassador for the saxophone far beyond national and genre boundaries. Not least since her Echo Klassik award in 2016, the musician has established herself as an ambassador for the saxophone far beyond national and genre boundaries. Following in the footsteps of Daniel Hope - who was the SHMF Portrait Artist 2023 - she puts the saxophone in the spotlight from all angles, in all sizes, different genres and instrumentations.
For "To the Muse", Asya Fateyeva has reinterpreted French works by Claude Debussy, Paule Maurice, Henri Tomaso, Bertrand Plé and the medieval troubadours. The theme of longing runs like a red thread through the entire album: Henri Tomasi's Concerto for Alto Saxophone, for example, is based on a forbidden love story between a nun and a monk. In Paule Maurice's "Tableaux de Provence", the landscape evokes memories of a friend who will never be close to her again. Fateyeva and her fellow musicians use this material as inspiration for free arrangements of the pieces - in new instrumentations for saxophone, hurdy-gurdy, cello, vibraphone and darbuka. Fateyeva's partners are Matthias Loibner (hurdy-gurdy), Bo Widget (cello), Emil Kuyumcuyan (vibraphone, darbuka) and the Saarland State Orchestra under Sébastien Rouland.
"Saxophone can be anything. It takes me further and further and shows me a new side every time," says Asya Fateyeva about her instrument.
Label Berlin Classics
Recording producer orchestra in Saarbrücken: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Thomas Becher
Recording "Troubadour" and Mastering: Philipp Nedel (b-sharp)
The CD with pieces by the Romanian composer Paul Constantinescu has been released.
Recordings in the Philharmonie Rostock
Concerto for piano and orchestra (1952)
“Wedding in the Carpathians”, Romanian wedding ballet (1938)
Oliver Triendl, piano
North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock
Marcus Bosch, conductor
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Hänssler Classic
Editor DLF Kultur: Stefan Lang
Label: Hänssler Classic, 3.5.2024
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Aki Matusch
Technician: Gerald Weinert & Philip Arthus
FONO FORUM awards five out of five stars for music and sound for the new CD recording of the Boston Early Music Festival. "...This is slapstick with music. A masterpiece!" writes Rasmus van Rijn in the March 2024 issue.
The Boston Early Music Festival's CD with works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi has been longlisted for the German Record Critics' Award. https://www.schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/longlist/longlist-1-2024
The recordings took place in January 2023 with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston in the Sendesaal Bremen.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), Livietta e Tracollo
Amanda Forsythe, Christian Immler, Carlotta Colombo; Jesse Blumberg
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Orchestra
Artistic leaders - Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs & Robert Mealy - Concertmaster
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
Co-Production - BEMF, Radio Bremen, CPO
The CD with chamber music works by the Hamburg-born composer Ferdinand Thieriot has been released. The recordings with the Hamburg Chamber Players were realized in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle Harburg and in the Ev.-Luth. Heilig-Geist-Kirchengemeinde Pinneberg with the mobile technology of PARRY AUDIO.
Label Toccata Classics
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther
The CD "Josef Labor, Piano Concertos for the Left Hand" with the pianist Oliver Triendl and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under the direction of Eugene Tzigane will be released on the capriccio label. The recordings were made in January 2023 at the Philharmonie Ludwigshafen.
In the 3/2023 issue of Piano News Carsten Dürer describes the special program of this CD project with the three piano concertos by Josef Labor (left hand), which the latter had composed for Paul Wittgenstein. For one day the author accompanies the concentrated recording work with Karola Parry as recording producer.
Photo Oliver Triendl © wildundleise
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR and cappriccio
Editor DLF Kultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Lisa Bodenseh
Technician: Rosemarie Neumeister
The CD with works by the Hungarian composer Miklós Rósza has been released. The recordings were made at the Philharmonie Ludwigshafen with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under the direction of Gregor Bühl.
"Born in Budapest, Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) is considered one of the most renowned and successful film music composers, but until 1937 he only composed chamber music, symphonic music and instrumental concertos. His works have been conducted by Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Eugene Ormandy and Leonard Bernstein. This album contains less frequently performed works, but they need not stand in the shadow of the better-known compositions. The magnificent overture is followed by the Hungarian Serenade in the revised version from 1963, which contains a march, a serenata, a scherzo, a nocturne and a danza. The music sounds unmistakably Hungarian. The Tripartita was premiered in 1972 by Rostropovich with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The first movement is rhythmic and agitated. The Intermezzo arioso is mysterious, almost sinister and threatening. The Allegro con brio ends the Tripartita with virtuosity and suspense. The Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz impresses as a whole and at the same time through the quality of its soloists. The recording technique is very good, so that this recording can only be recommended." https://www.pizzicato.lu/ungarisches-von-miklos-rozsa/
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR and Cappriccio
Editor DLF Kultur: Stefan Lang
Label: Capriccio
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Ingbert Neumeister
Technician: Peter Brettel
The recordings for the CD with the song cycle by Johannes Brahms, which the duo Tomas Kildišius (baritone) and Ani Ter-Martirosyan (piano) released as their debut CD with GENUIN, were already made in 2021 using PARRY AUDIO's mobile technology. The 15 Romances Op. 38 are based on texts by Ludwig Tieck and are linked to original prose fragments by the poet in an adaptation by Jannike Liebwerth.
Tomas Kildišius, baritone
Ani Ter-Martirosyan, piano
Jannike Liebwerth, narrator
Label: Genuin
Recording producer: Karola Parry
The new CD of pianist Shoko Kuroe has been released!
The recording of the piano works by Jan Müller Wieland took place with the mobile equipment of PARRY AUDIO in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Harburg. The composer dedicated the piece "Trauma und Rückgrad" to the Me Too movement and to Shoko Kuroe.
more videos:
Jan Müller-Wieland : TRAUMA UND RÜCKGRAT, V. Gegenwehr I
Jan Müller-Wieland: Capriccetti (2. Zyklus), V. innig
Label: Neos
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Video: Ruth Günther, Karola Parry
The CDs with the Piano Concerto Op. 7 and Symphony No. 1 by the Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä have been released!
The recordings for the CDs with pianist Oliver Triendl and the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Ari Rasilainen took place with the mobile technology of PARRY AUDIO in April. The grand piano was delivered to the rehearsal hall in the Redoute in Weimar by Gerd Finkenstein.
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur, hänssler CLASSIC
Editor DLF Kultur: Stefan Lang
Label: hänssler CLASSIC
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Assistance: Ruth Günther
Organist of the Church of Our Lady in Bremen and the Church of St. Pancratius in Neuenfelde near Hamburg, Hilger Kespohl, played the Arp Schnitger organ in Neuenfelde as part of a CD project. In 2007 Kespohl was appointed organist at the Schnitger organ in Neuenfelde to lead the restoration of the important monument organ in the church where Arp Schnitger's grave is located.
PARRY AUDIO's mobile technology was set up in the nave for the recordings.
This production is released as a current CD to the magazine Organ - Journal for organ 1/23 on 14.4.2023
Recording producer: Karola Parry
The PARRY AUDIO OBvan traveled to Aachen for radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur. We recorded the opera "Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind" by Leo Blech at the Eurogress Aachen, broadcast on May 22, 2021 at 19:05.
The CD has been released in September 2022, co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Capriccio
Romantic opera in three acts op. 14
Text: Richard Batka after the magic play by Ferdinand Raimund
Astragalus, the King of the Alps - Ronan Collett, baritone
Rappelkopf - Hrólfur Saemundsson, baritone
Sabine, his wife - Irina Popova, soprano
Marthe, his daughter - Sonja Gornik, soprano
Hans, musician - Tilmann Unger, tenor
Lieschen - Anne-Aurore Cochet, soprano
Habakuk - Hyunhan Hwang, tenor
Veit Meinhart, carpenter and village musician - Pawel Lawreszuk, bass
Katharine, his wife - Fanny Lustaud, mezzo-soprano
Susel, his daughter - Anna Graf, soprano
Ladies of the opera and extra choir of the Aachen Theater
Symphony Orchestra Aachen
Conductor: Christopher Ward
Editing and moderation DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Tim Altrichter
Technician: Ruth Günther
In August 2022 the new CD of cellist David Stromberg has been released.
CD recording at the Miralles Hall of the Hamburg Youth Music School: Cello suites by Johann-Sebastian Bach with David Stromberg playing a baroque cello.
Label: OEHMS Classics
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Under the direction of Christopher Ward, a CD with the first recording of the complete orchestral works of composer Leo Blech (1871-1958) has been released. PARRY AUDIO's OBvan traveled to Aachen for the production of the pieces "Waldwanderung" and "Die Nonne".
Sonja Gornik, soprano
Opera Choir Aachen
Symphony Orchestra Aachen
Christopher Ward, conductor
Label: Capriccio
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Tim Altrichter
Technician: Ruth Günther
For thirty years, the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists has been fostering musical encounters on the highest level, in which exceptional young soloists are given the opportunity to perform with renowned orchestras under the baton of major conductors. In times of Corona the foundation supports a CD production: Three young soloists play concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The recording took place in the Oberstrass Church in Zurich and the PARRY AUDIO OB van traveled to Switzerland for this special project!
Stephen Waarts, violin
Ivo Dudler, horn
Can Çakmur, piano
Camerata Switzerland
Howard Griffiths, conductor
Review pizzicato by Remy Franck: "... ICMA award winner Stephen Waarts kicks things off in the 1st Violin Concerto, which he really plays with immense inspiration and sensitivity. He also shows great musicality in his own cadenzas. [...] Can Cakmur, however, shows in his own cadenzas what he is capable of when it comes to Mozart. [...] As the soloist in this recording, Dudler convinces with a round, warm sound and very nice phrasing..."
Label: Alpha Classics
recording producer: Karola Parry
technician: Ruth Günther
CD release in september 2021!
link to the review in glarean magazin
"Der Vogelsang", music for string quartett composed by Steffen Wolf for the recitation of Christoph Martin Wielands poem "Der Vogelsang oder die drey Lehren" (1778)
First performance: October 11th 2017
The CD-recording was realised in February with PARRY AUDIO mobile technique and will be finished in April in the studio.
Music: Kizuna-Quartett
Recitation: Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Recording venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Harburg and PARRY AUDIO studio
Commissioned and patronized by the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Eberhard Schnellen, Karola Parry
TyXart Label
The CD was already released in 2014. It has just received another special mention. Elisabeth Richter declares the composition "Dunkle Lichter" by composer Mario Wiegand, recorded with the musicians of the East Side Octet, to be one of the "ten best". "Erlaubt ist, was klingt - Zehn Oktette, die man kennen sollte" is the title of the article published by Fono Forum in October 2021. The recording was made in 2013 in collaboration with Deutschlandradio Kultur.
Label: Es-Dur
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Critic's Choice of the German Record Award 2021! "...In this premiere recording, a web of tonal sensuality is woven..." link
This CD production brings together three works by Enno Poppe that have been written for Ensemble Resonanz since 2010 and are now released as first recordings under the composer's direction.
Frank Armbruster in Concerti on 22.4.2021: "Congenially, violist Tabea Zimmermann and the ensemble resonanz realise the complex, multi-layered music of Enno Poppe." You can find the whole review in german here.
Wald for four string quartets (2009/10)
Filz for viola and chamber orchestra (2013/14)
Stoff for nine strings (2015/18)
Ensemble Resonance
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Enno Poppe, conductor
Label: Wergo
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Redaktion: Rainer Pöllmann
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Ruth Günther
https://www.ensembleresonanz.com/resonanz-digital/themen/filz
Recording: June 2020 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg-Harburg
Liam Cagney for Gramophone: "Mark Barden's music pursues a forensic exploration of the instrumental body. [...] cleft for violin and cello, 20 minutes long, reaches the verge of silence. Through techniques such as double-stops, glissandos and harmonics, brief textures fade in and out of nothingness. Here as elsewhere, the sound engineering is remarkable..." link to the review
Mark Barden's music takes us to the limits of our hearing and invites us to participate in it, to experience it. Fine deviations, distinctions and sustained sounds predominate on this portrait recording, says Paul Griffiths in the booklet text. In this, Barden seeks the extremes.
"Veil" stands on the edge of soundlessness. The characteristics of a veil are musically illuminated: Two piccolo flutes veil themselves, lay layers of sounds and breathing noises on top of each other and describe the instability and transparency of a veil.
Still other pieces push the limits of the instruments' ambitus. In "cleft", for example, the low side of the cello is tuned down so far that it reaches the range of a double bass. In this longest work of the portrait recording - as in other pieces - the focus is on the interplay between the closeness and the divergence of the instruments. It is precisely through this dichotomy that the unexpected emerges: "Can we imagine," the composer asks, "that the gap between the diverging layers is not empty, but raging with chaotic violence?"
The manifold relationships of the voices to each other are explored in small instrumentations. But even the supposedly larger ensemble piece "aMass", interpreted by ensemble mosaik, brings three very different trios closer together sonically. The most powerful composition of this portrait is Barden's largest work to date, "anatomy" for percussion solo and large orchestra, heard here with Brian Archinal and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Peter Rundel.
Matteo Cesari: piccolo / Helen Bledsoe: piccolo and bass flute / Ensemble Mosaik / Enno Poppe: conductor / Carl Rosman: bass clarinet / Lorelei Dowling: bassoon / Ashot Sarkissjan: violin / Séverine Ballon: cello / Joseph Houston: piano / Brian Archinal: percussion / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Peter Rundel: conductor
Label: Wergo
Co-production Deutscher Musikrat and Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Recording producer: Karola Parry
In December 2020 the new CD of cellist Niklas Schmidt has been released. The pianist Stepan Simonian accompanied on the piano.
Fono Forum May 2021, Clemens Haustein:
"Concerning the ability to make the instrument forgotten, Niklas Schmidt, founding member of Trio Fontenay, today cellist of the Fine Arts Quartet, is not far from Pablo Casals. Not unreasonably, therefore, Schmidt also plays the "Cant dels Ocells," Casals' Catalan creed, on his very personal album. This is not an imitation and in the ventilated, as if improvising tone very close to Casals. Around it, 17 short pieces from Bach to Sibelius, with which the cellist traces the different influences that shaped him."
Label: Fontenay Classics
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
A Bechstein grand piano was delivered to the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Harburg for the recording of the new CD by pianist Stepan Simonian with various arrangements of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. The CD also features a piece with Asya Fateyeva, saxophone.
Label: CAvi
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
On November 20, 2020 the new CD of the pianist Shoko Kuroe has been released:
Powder snow. Sleigh. Snow flurries - the collection of classical piano miniatures takes you into an enchanted winter landscape.
Label: conditura records www.cec-music.de
Recording 16 - 18 September 2019, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Photos, graphic design: Gesche Jäger - www.qart.de
Songs from Schubert's "Winter Journey" meet the songs of Australian lyricist and singer Nick Cave: The recordings for this special CD were made in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Harburg with the mobile equipment of PARRY AUDIO.
Susanne Breda chooses the CD as one of her five most impressive of the year in Fono Forum's 2020 Critics' Poll: "...a terrific, disturbing culture clash."
Charly Hübner, voice
Kalle Kalima, guitar
Carlos Bica, double bass
Max Andrzejewski, percussion
Tobias Schwencke, editing
Ensemble Resonanz
https://www.ensembleresonanz.com/resonanz-digital/themen/mercy-seat-winterreise
Label: resonanzraum records
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Assistance: Ruth Günther
Artists shoot exclusive music videos in the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle, including off-stage, in unusual locations for the Elbphilharmonie Sessions. Here, every sound finds its own backdrop.
In the foyer of the small hall Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Thomas Dunford - two shooting stars of the early music scene, and far beyond - play Nicola Matteis' varied “Variations on la Folia” - short variation movements between melancholy mellifluousness and breathtaking virtuosity.
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
Thomas Dunford, lute
Fotos © Sophie Wolter
Julika von Werder, production management
Nils Kohstall, camera
Julian Conrad, Edit
Karola Parry, sound
The choir project of the vocal ensemble of the Christianskirche in Hamburg-Altona was performed with a large band as part of the Altonale, recorded with the PARRY AUDIO OB van and filmed for a YouTube video.
Direction: Igor Zeller
Film: Lémuel Grave
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Recording engineer: Felix Epp
Technician: Ruth Günther
Artists shoot exclusive music videos in the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle, including off-stage, in unusual locations for the Elbphilharmonie Sessions as part of the Hamburg International Music Festival. Here, every sound finds its own backdrop. Clarinettist Pablo Barragàn plays Messian's "Abîme des oiseaux" in Hamburg's St. Nikolai Memorial, which Messian later incorporated into the composition "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" for the 2024 Music Festival "War and Peace".
Pablo Barragán, clarinet
Julika von Werder, production management
Julian Conrad, camera & editing
Karola Parry, sound
The Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 11 by Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov was recorded in an audio and video production in the main hall of the Elbphilharmonie using the PARRY AUDIO OB van. The concert evening was performed by the orchestra Hamburger Camerata under the direction of Delyana Lazarova with Joanna Kamenarska as soloist.
Pancho Vladigerov
Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 11
Joanna Kamenarska, violin
Hamburger Camerata
Delyana Lazarova, conductor
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Tim Altrichter
Video: Studio seventeen, Johannes Schmidt
The new CD of pianist Shoko Kuroe has been released!
The recording of the piano works by Jan Müller Wieland took place with the mobile equipment of PARRY AUDIO in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Harburg. The composer dedicated the piece "Trauma und Rückgrad" to the Me Too movement and to Shoko Kuroe.
more videos:
Jan Müller-Wieland : TRAUMA UND RÜCKGRAT, V. Gegenwehr I
Jan Müller-Wieland: Capriccetti (2. Zyklus), V. innig
Label: Neos
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Video: Ruth Günther, Karola Parry
The movie "Laufen" is posted as movie of the week in the ZDF Mediathek. https://www.zdf.de/filme/der-fernsehfilm-der-woche/laufen-100.html. The Filming of an orchestra scene took place in October 2021 in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. The actors performed with members of the Symphoniker Hamburg under the direction of Bruno Merse. PARRY AUDIO was responsible for the sound recording with hidden microphones.
Production: Relevant Film Produktionsgesellschaft
Sound engineer: Felix Epp
Technician: Nick Braren
Speech Machine and Laughter Therapy are the names of Benjamin Scheuer's compositions, which were recorded at the Resonanzraum using PARRY AUDIO's mobile equipment for a CD project sponsored by the German Music Council. A video is also being made of the pieces with Vanessa Porter, percussion, and Nikolai Rosenberg, piano.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Assistence: Ruth Günther
Video: Lemuel Grave
For the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, the participants were recorded at various locations around the world. In Hamburg's Miralles Hall the sound was realized with PARRY AUDIO's mobile equipment.
cleveland-international-piano-competition-2021
Sound engineer: Karola Parry
Video: Lémuel Grave
To create a unique music video for John Cage's "Living Room Music," Ensemble Resonanz has divided the composition into several excerpts. In "Everybody's Cage," anyone who feels like making music with the most ordinary sounds of everyday life can join in. The sound and video recordings of the second section were made in the "living room" at Resonanzraum.
link to the video on resonanz digital platform
Video: Florian Schmuck
Sound and technology: Karola Parry
The recordings of the competition participants in Hamburg took place at Steinway & Sons. The sound for the videos was realized with the mobile technology of PARRY AUDIO.
Click here to see the videos of the participants in the Busoni Competition
Video: Lémuel Grave
Sound engineering: Martin Siemssen
The concert of the New York chamber orchestra The Knights in the great hall of the Bremen Glocke was recorded by the team of PARRY AUDIO with the OB van.
Program:
Colin Jacobsen: Kreutzings
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major op. 47 "Kreutzer Sonata" (arranged for string orchestra)
Anna Clyne: Shorthand
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata" (arranged for string orchestra)
Selection of Folk Dances
Ray Chen - violin
Karen Ouzounian - cello
The Knights Chamber Orchestra
Eric Jacobsen - artistic director & conductor
Colin Jacobsen - artistic director & violin
Photo © Sebastian Madej
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Tim Altrichter
Technician: Ruth Günther
Video production in cooperation with Studio 17 Hamburg
resonanzen five "megamorphoses" - a staged concert with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ondřej Adámek & Éric Oberdorff. Both concerts in the small hall of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie were recorded with PARRY AUDIO's mobile technology.
From the collective to the individual, from Richard Strauss' "Metamorphoses" to a cello concerto by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Ondřej Adámek's new work, which takes place in the entire hall - the fifth resonanzen concert tells a story of outbreak and emancipation.
Adámek's new work was commissioned by Ensemble Resonanz and Konzerthaus Dortmund, funded by the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation.
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Ondřej Adámek, conductor
Éric Oberdorff, Concert choreography
Ensemble Resonanz
Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Metamorphoses
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Concerto for Cello and Strings in A minor Wq 170
Ondrej Adamek (*1979): Illusory parts of the mechanism
Camera: Florian Schmuck
Sound: PARRY AUDIO - Karola Parry, Ruth Günther
The urban string by and with "jazz anarchist and chamber music revolutionary" Kalle Kalima was recorded with PARRY AUDIO's mobile technology.
Kalle Kalima, electric guitar
Helena Ratka, visual design
Ensemble Resonanz
Camera: Florian Schmuck
Sound: PARRY AUDIO - Karola Parry, Jakob Böttcher
Photo co Arvo Wichmann
As part of the Scenic Readings of the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism, a film and accompanying teaching material on the topic of "Black Angles" were conceived. The music and readings for the film were recorded at PARRY AUDIO Studio. The film and the teaching material are available free of charge at https://hamburgwaehlt.de.
Performers: Andreas Grötzinger, Rabea Lübbe, Anne Weber, Michael Weber
Music: Jakob Neubauer, Edgar Herzog
Production: DNGL Media
Image rights: Hamburg State Archive
Concept, research, writing and direction: Michael Batz
Sound: PARRY AUDIO, Karola Parry
For the production of the new orchestra fairy tale Jin and the magic melon the ob van of PARRY AUDIO travelled to Frankfurt Oder. The orchestra recordings have been produced with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, the voice recordings with the actress Martina Gedeck took place in Berlin.
Music: Fabian Künzli
Text: Howard Griffiths
Speaker: Martina Gedeck
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt Oder
Conductor: Howard Griffiths
Foto co Jens-Peter Bark
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
The animated short film project by Daniela Opp and Kai Rönnau (Noctiluca Medienproduktion) is funded by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. The voice recordings took place at PARRY AUDIO Studio. CANCELLED tells the story of a little girl whose memories of her early, happy years are stolen along with the separation of her parents. And how she manages to recapture them after more than 40 years. Or create them.
Speakers: Astrid Schulz and Marit Persil
Karola Parry, recording
The concert stream "hunde (dogs)" with Ensemble Resonanz was shot in Entenwerder on the Elbe.
Two stories about dogs by Jon Fosse with music
A program by Sabine Haupt and Swantje Tessmann
Swantje Tessmann, violin & vocals
Justin Caulley, viola & voice
John Eckhardt, double bass
Johannes Öllinger, banjo & vocals
Tobias Hertlein, drums
Sabine Haupt, narrator, vocals
Florian Schmuck, camera and editing
Sound: PARRY AUDIO, Karola Parry, sound engineer
Lydia Carolin Hansen, lighting
Franziska Rademacher, project management
Ruth Warnke, production
The sound for the concert stream resonanzen vier from the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie was recorded with the mobile technic of PARRY AUDIO.
Xilin Wang (*1937)
Symphony No. 5 for 22 strings
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
Ensemble Resonanz
Karola Parry, recording producer
Hirn und Wanst, filmic realization
The concert stream will be available here starting May 17.
Resonances three: concert stream from the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie.
Ilya Gringolts, violin
Riccardo Minasi, conductor
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
12 Concerti grossi op. 6 (selection)
Caprices for solo violin
by Pietro Locatelli, Guiseppe Tartini, Niccolò Paganini and Salvatore Sciarrino
Lilli Thalgott, film realization and camera
Christoph Rohrscheid, camera
Leon Daniel, camera
Karola Parry, recording producer
Ruth Günther, assistant sound
Katrin Irretier, lighting
Laurence Baradat, production
Ruth Warnke, editing
Tim-Erik Winzer, editing and dramaturgy
Ilya Gringolts, dramaturgy
As part of the ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart 2021, a concert film was produced for concert 6 on Feb. 5, 2021. PARRY AUDIO was there with the Obvan at Kampnagel in Hamburg.
Enno Poppe: Stoff
for ensemble (2015/18)
Iris ter Schiphorst: Whistle-Blower
for solo recorder, sampler and string ensemble (2020/21)premiere* of the lockdown version
Jeremias Schwarzer, recorder
Ensemble Resonance
conductor Peter Rundel
Film: Wiebke Pöpel
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Tim Altrichter
*"Whistle-Blower" was commissioned by the Kunststiftung NRW for the soloist Jeremias Schwarzer as part of the project "New Recorder Concerts" conceived by him.
Broadcast in SWR2 JetztMusik on Wednesday, 17.2.2021, 11:03 p.m.
Jeremias Schwarzer talks about the production of Iris ter Schiphorst's "Whistle Blower" on facebook
This year the contribution for the event of the 'Hamburger Bürgerschaft' on January 27, 2021 "In memory of the victims of National Socialism" was recorded in the PARRY AUDIO Studio.
Speaker: Barbara Auer, Michael Weber
Music: Jakob Neubauer, Edgar Herzog, Johannes Huth, Kohe Reinhardt, Jeffrey Weiss, Manusch Weiss
Concept, research, writing and direction: Michael Batz
Recording: Mehmet Ergin
Mixing, editing and mastering: Karola Parry
Video: Andrea Detmer
The Musik 21 Festival Niedersachsen planned for 2020 took place as a film on the Internet, the online premiere of the Festival film "Music for a City" was on 6.12.2020. All participating ensembles and musicians have had their festival contributions filmed in order to be able to maintain the original concept of artistic director Matthias Kaul in this way.
With the mobile technology of PARRY AUDIO the sound for the piece of Matthias Kaul "(in die) Nähe bewegt" for distant instruments and distant languages was recorded with the Frantic Percussion Ensemble & Speakers.
https://musik21niedersachsen.de/news/musik-fuer-eine-stadt-premiere-am-06-12-2020
Recording: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther
Great review at PianoNews 5/2024! Interpretation, Sound, Repertoire each 6 out of 6 points - CD of the Months September and October 2024!
The GENUIN debut album of Moscow-born and Hamburg-based pianist Elizaveta Don brings together "Préludes" by three great composers: Claude Debussy, Dmitri Shostakovich, and the lesser-known yet equally significant works by Frank Martin.
Recorded at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg-Harburg, July 2020
Piano: Steinway D, Klangmanufaktur (Hamburg)
Label: Genuin
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Editing: Karola Parry
The new album with works by composer Maria Herz is Album of the Week at BR Klassik:
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/br-klassik-empfiehlt/cd/maria-herz-orchesterwerke-album-der-woche
Reviews of the CD in Fono Forum August 2024 and at Pizzicato https://www.pizzicato.lu/weitere-entdeckungen-von-maria-herz/
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
FONO FORUM awards five out of five stars for music and sound for the new CD recording of the Boston Early Music Festival. "...This is slapstick with music. A masterpiece!" writes Rasmus van Rijn in the March 2024 issue.
The Boston Early Music Festival's CD with works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi has been longlisted for the German Record Critics' Award. https://www.schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/longlist/longlist-1-2024
The recordings took place in January 2023 with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston in the Sendesaal Bremen.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), Livietta e Tracollo
Amanda Forsythe, Christian Immler, Carlotta Colombo; Jesse Blumberg
BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Orchestra
Artistic leaders - Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs & Robert Mealy - Concertmaster
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann
Co-Production - BEMF, Radio Bremen, CPO
The CD with works by the Hungarian composer Miklós Rósza has been released. The recordings were made at the Philharmonie Ludwigshafen with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under the direction of Gregor Bühl.
"Born in Budapest, Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) is considered one of the most renowned and successful film music composers, but until 1937 he only composed chamber music, symphonic music and instrumental concertos. His works have been conducted by Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Eugene Ormandy and Leonard Bernstein. This album contains less frequently performed works, but they need not stand in the shadow of the better-known compositions. The magnificent overture is followed by the Hungarian Serenade in the revised version from 1963, which contains a march, a serenata, a scherzo, a nocturne and a danza. The music sounds unmistakably Hungarian. The Tripartita was premiered in 1972 by Rostropovich with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The first movement is rhythmic and agitated. The Intermezzo arioso is mysterious, almost sinister and threatening. The Allegro con brio ends the Tripartita with virtuosity and suspense. The Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz impresses as a whole and at the same time through the quality of its soloists. The recording technique is very good, so that this recording can only be recommended." https://www.pizzicato.lu/ungarisches-von-miklos-rozsa/
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR and Cappriccio
Editor DLF Kultur: Stefan Lang
Label: Capriccio
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Ingbert Neumeister
Technician: Peter Brettel
The PARRY AUDIO OBvan traveled to Aachen for radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur. We recorded the opera "Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind" by Leo Blech at the Eurogress Aachen, broadcast on May 22, 2021 at 19:05.
The CD has been released in September 2022, co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Capriccio
Romantic opera in three acts op. 14
Text: Richard Batka after the magic play by Ferdinand Raimund
Astragalus, the King of the Alps - Ronan Collett, baritone
Rappelkopf - Hrólfur Saemundsson, baritone
Sabine, his wife - Irina Popova, soprano
Marthe, his daughter - Sonja Gornik, soprano
Hans, musician - Tilmann Unger, tenor
Lieschen - Anne-Aurore Cochet, soprano
Habakuk - Hyunhan Hwang, tenor
Veit Meinhart, carpenter and village musician - Pawel Lawreszuk, bass
Katharine, his wife - Fanny Lustaud, mezzo-soprano
Susel, his daughter - Anna Graf, soprano
Ladies of the opera and extra choir of the Aachen Theater
Symphony Orchestra Aachen
Conductor: Christopher Ward
Editing and moderation DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Tim Altrichter
Technician: Ruth Günther
For thirty years, the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists has been fostering musical encounters on the highest level, in which exceptional young soloists are given the opportunity to perform with renowned orchestras under the baton of major conductors. In times of Corona the foundation supports a CD production: Three young soloists play concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The recording took place in the Oberstrass Church in Zurich and the PARRY AUDIO OB van traveled to Switzerland for this special project!
Stephen Waarts, violin
Ivo Dudler, horn
Can Çakmur, piano
Camerata Switzerland
Howard Griffiths, conductor
Review pizzicato by Remy Franck: "... ICMA award winner Stephen Waarts kicks things off in the 1st Violin Concerto, which he really plays with immense inspiration and sensitivity. He also shows great musicality in his own cadenzas. [...] Can Cakmur, however, shows in his own cadenzas what he is capable of when it comes to Mozart. [...] As the soloist in this recording, Dudler convinces with a round, warm sound and very nice phrasing..."
Label: Alpha Classics
recording producer: Karola Parry
technician: Ruth Günther
CD release in september 2021!
link to the review in glarean magazin
"Der Vogelsang", music for string quartett composed by Steffen Wolf for the recitation of Christoph Martin Wielands poem "Der Vogelsang oder die drey Lehren" (1778)
First performance: October 11th 2017
The CD-recording was realised in February with PARRY AUDIO mobile technique and will be finished in April in the studio.
Music: Kizuna-Quartett
Recitation: Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Recording venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Harburg and PARRY AUDIO studio
Commissioned and patronized by the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Eberhard Schnellen, Karola Parry
TyXart Label
The CD was already released in 2014. It has just received another special mention. Elisabeth Richter declares the composition "Dunkle Lichter" by composer Mario Wiegand, recorded with the musicians of the East Side Octet, to be one of the "ten best". "Erlaubt ist, was klingt - Zehn Oktette, die man kennen sollte" is the title of the article published by Fono Forum in October 2021. The recording was made in 2013 in collaboration with Deutschlandradio Kultur.
Label: Es-Dur
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Critic's Choice of the German Record Award 2021! "...In this premiere recording, a web of tonal sensuality is woven..." link
This CD production brings together three works by Enno Poppe that have been written for Ensemble Resonanz since 2010 and are now released as first recordings under the composer's direction.
Frank Armbruster in Concerti on 22.4.2021: "Congenially, violist Tabea Zimmermann and the ensemble resonanz realise the complex, multi-layered music of Enno Poppe." You can find the whole review in german here.
Wald for four string quartets (2009/10)
Filz for viola and chamber orchestra (2013/14)
Stoff for nine strings (2015/18)
Ensemble Resonance
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Enno Poppe, conductor
Label: Wergo
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Redaktion: Rainer Pöllmann
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Ruth Günther
https://www.ensembleresonanz.com/resonanz-digital/themen/filz
Recording: June 2020 Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg-Harburg
Ensemble Resonanz receives the OPUS KLASSIK 2020 in the category Ensemble/Orchestra for "Tenebre" with works by Bryce Dessner, with Moses Sumney. Congratulations!
This album assembles four of Dessner's most recent and important works for strings: a staggering full string orchestra version of his popular masterpiece »Aheym« followed by a new edition of his captivating string quartet »Tenebre«, featuring an appearance by vocal sensation Moses Sumney. Dessner's string trio »Skrik« appears as a world premiere recording, while his orchestral piece »Lachrimae«, referencing the musical world of John Dowland, completes this collection of a multi-faceted composer. (© Text Ensemble Resonanz)
The CD is available October, 11th 2019.
Photo: Ensemble Resonanz & Bryce Dessner (© Ensemble Resonanz)
Recording Producer, Editing, Mixing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Assistant: Ruth Günther
The musicians of the CD "Jonny" around saxophonist Asya Fateyeva were nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK 2020 in the categories Ensemble of the Year and Chamber Music/Mixed Ensemble.
The recordings for the new CD production took place at the Sendesaal Bremen in February 2019. The highlight was the concert on February 10th!
A short video about the artist and the recording situation was documented and broadcasted by Arte.
Asya Fateyeva – saxophon
Shirley Brill – clarinet
Stepan Simonian – piano
Florian Donderer/Emma Yoon – violins
Yuko Hara – viola
Tanja Tetzlaff – cello...
...play works by Erwin Schulhoff, Ernst Krenek, Adolf Busch, Paul Hindemith, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill.
Label: Berlin Classics
https://sendesaal-bremen.de/produkt/residenz-at-sendesaal-asya-fateyeva/
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
The recording of the new CD by Ensemble Resonance and Riccardo Minasi was realised with PARRY AUDIO mobile equipment in St. Nikolai, Harvestehude.
Diapason d'Or juin 2019 - N°680, Jean-Luc Macia:
"TECHNIQUE : 4/5 Enregistré en juillet 2018 à la Haupkirche St. Nikolai de Hambourg (Allemagne) par Karola Parry. Un bel espace sonore aéré. Le temps de réverbération assez long ne vient pas contrarier la définition de l'image dans son ensemble et apporte une belle homogénéité aux couleurs orchestrales."
"Aufgenommen im Juli 2018 in der Haupkirche St. Nikolai in Hamburg von Karola Parry. Ein schöner luftiger Klangraum. Die Nachhallzeit genau lang genug,
um nicht in das Klangbild im Ganzen einzugreifen, sie bringt eine schöne Homogenität in die Orchesterfarben."
https://www.rondomagazin.de/kritiken
David Threasher - Gramophone, May 2019:
"...the original orchestral score comes out far less often than the solo and chamber versions, so this new recording from Ensemble Resonanz is doubly welcome. First, because of the chance it offers to relish this rarity from Haydn's high maturity as a symphonist. Second, because of the finely nuanced performance it receives. The strings have a particular sparkle as captured within the stonework of a reasonably spacious Hamburg church, while the woodwind offer consoling balm..."
Label: harmonia mundi
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Assistent: Ruth Günther
Ensemble Resonanz comes up with an intimate chamber version of Bach's Christmas Oratorio on CD and LP!
"The instrumenation opens for new sounds: an electric guitar and hammond organs as continuo instruments, just one trumpet doing the job of three and the whole ensemble singing the chorals."
Digital Editing, Mixing & Mastering: Karola Parry
http://www.ensembleresonanz.com/wo
CD "NICOLA PORPORA: CHRISTMAS ORATORIO" („IL VERBO IN CARNE")
Kammerorchester Basel, conductor Riccardo Minasi
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Terry Wey, alto
Martin Vanberg, tenor
Marc-Olivier Oetterli, basso
Label: SONY Classical
Live Recording: NDR
Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Prizewinning! Palmarès des Diapason d'or 2018
"There can't be many ensembles around as stylistically fleet-footed as Hamburg's Ensemble Resonanz [...] for this recording they've gone for the more brilliant-toned metal option. Interestingly Queyras has too, and the detailed attention he's paid to colouring every note puts paid to any notion that you need gut strings to present the full gamut of such subtleties ..."
Take a look at the complete article: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/cpe-bach-cello-concertos-symphony-queyras
C. P. E. Bach: Cello-Concerts Wq 170 und 172 / Symphony Wq 173 (Label harmonia mundi)
Ensemble Resonanz
Riccardo Minasi
Realized with mobile equipment: The recordings for the CD production with Ensemble Resonanz took place at St. Nikolai in Hamburg-Harvestehunde.
http://www.ensembleresonanz.com/records
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther
The complete string quartets and the string octet of the german composer Woldemar Bargiel, played by the Orpheus Quartet and guests, have already been recorded in 2013 and 2016. Now the beautiful and highly praised CD has been released.
Co-Production Burkhard Schmilgun, cpo and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Stefan Lang
Label: cpo
Recording Producer CD 1: Karola Parry
Sound engineer CD 1: Christian Feldgen
Beneke, audiobook (Hoffmann und Campe) with 6 CDs. Excerpts out of Beneke's diaries with Jan among others Philipp Reemtsma and Gerd Wameling. Audio plays with Matthias Brandt, Lisa Hrdina.
Music: Jens Thomas
Director: Charlotte Drews-Bernstein
Recording and Mixing Collage: Karola Parry
Production Audio Plays: Peter Kainz for Radio Bremen
Mastering: Karola Parry
Feedback by Florian Bänsch, 12.2.2018 Bremen zwei
2018 GRAMMY Nominations: Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Zara Levina: The Piano Concertos (Label Capriccio)
Maria Lettberg, piano
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ariane Matiakh conductor
Highly acclaimed recording of the piano concerts of Zara Levina (1906-1976).
Recording venue: RBB Saal 1, Berlin
Deutschlandradio Kultur Editor: Stefan Lang
Producer Capriccio: Johannes Kernmayer
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Hajo Seiler
Photo: Grammy Academy Nominees 2018 Best Classical Instrumental Solo
C. P. E. Bach: 4 Symphonies Wq 183 / 6 Sonatas Wq 184 (C2 Hamburg. Label ES-DUR)
Ensemble Resonanz
Riccardo Minasi
Realized with mobile equipment: The recordings for the CD production with Ensemble Resonanz took place at the Christuskirche in Hamburg-Othmarschen.
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Hanns Eisler: Film Music (Label Capriccio)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke conductor
"Besides the Oscar-nominated score for Fritz Lang's film 'Hangmen Also Die' (1943), this CD contains other rarely heard works by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), in which the special interpretation Schönberg's pupil had developed of the twelve-tone technique plays an astonishingly important role for the field of film and orchestral music."
SOUND SAMPLE
https://soundcloud.com/user-592952001/eisler-film-music-scores
Recording venue: RBB Saal 1, Berlin
Deutschlandradio Kultur Editor: Stefan Lang
Producer Capriccio: Johannes Kernmayer
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Henri Thaon
Walter Braunfels: Lieder (Label Capriccio)
Marlis Petersen, Sopran
Konrad Jarnot, Bariton
Eric Schneider, Klavier
Highly acclaimed recording of the songs of Walter Braunfels (1882-1954).
Recording venue: Siemensvilla, Berlin
Deutschlandradio Kultur Editor: Stefan Lang
Producer Capriccio: Johannes Kernmayer
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Bernd Friebel
Reviews:
The Classical Review, Top Ten Recordings of 2016, December 31, 2016:
"The time for the rediscovery of the music of Walter Braunfels is at hand. In addition to another recording of this composer's excellent Grosse Messe (also on the Capriccio label and included in the Honorable Mentions below), soprano Marlis Petersen made a superlative case for his songs. She sparkles with irrepressible energy in high-flying treble songs, but she's also a pool of silvered water in the charming "Die Nachtigall." That song is part of the Fragmente eines Federspiels (Fragments of a Feather Play), a set of eight songs devoted to different birds. Braunfels made a set of nine further bird songs, the Neues Federspiel, as a companion piece, also recorded by Petersen to the same beautiful effect."
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (C2 Hamburg. ES-DUR Label)
NDR Chor
Philipp Ahmann
The recordings took place in the church St. Nikolai in Hamburg-Harvestehude for the Christmas CD with the NDR Choir, realized with mobile equipment.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Balance engineer: Udo Potratz
Der Graf von Luxemburg (CPO)
Franz Lehar (1870-1948)
Marco Vassalli, Mark Hamman, Eva Schneidereit, Daniel Wagner, Astrid Kessler, Choir of the Theatre Osnabrück, Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester, Daniel Inbal
Recording Osnabrück 2012, release November 2014
Executive Producer: Burkhard Schmilgun
Recording Producer, Digital Editing, Mastering: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Eberhard Schnellen, Roman Vehlken
Digital Editing: Johanna Vollus
klassik-heute.com 12 / 2014: »Daniel Inbal, familiar with the piece since his time at the Vienna Volksoper, finds with his musicians the right idiom, enchants with weightless waltz-elegance.«
NOZ 11 / 2014: »In order to achieve the best possible sound quality, the recording wasn´t live at the theatre performance. No, label cpo and the musical theater group rented the Osnabrück-Halle for two days and recorded the whole piece as if in the recording studio. The result is a fast-paced recording. Daniel Inbal has managed to motivate the orchestra and the ensemble so that the operetta really does grow wings. The Osnabrück Symphonieorchester plays buoyant, but also explores the depths that Lehár has underlined in the score.«
klassik.com 04 / 2015: »Authentic, complete, good. ... The now complete sounding score is realized by the outstanding Osnabrück Symphonieorchester with the sparkle and mellifluousness, which are so indispensable for Lehars. The conductor Daniel Inbal inspires his musicians to high performances, but maintains with all precision the feeling of the light-footed. This sounds sensible and handy at the same time - like an intoxication that overcomes the listener with a joyous cheerfulness, but which hinders the person concerned from continuing. The singing ensemble is also at work with an audible sense of play and a precise knowledge of the roll. This is particularly noticeable in the delicate dialogue passages. It is clear that all members of the ensemble have internalized the piece and have played the operetta frequently together.«
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