The recording sessions for a CD with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under the direction of Gregor Bühl took place in the Philharmonie Ludwigshafen.
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR and cappriccio
Editor DLF Kultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Ingbert Neumeister
Technician: Peter Brettel
For a CD production works of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi were recorded with the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble from Boston in the Sendesaal Bremen in January 2023.
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, Radio Bremen, CPO
For the digital project "Memory Jolts. Flashes of pink in the brain" by composer Clara Iannotta, recordings with two sextets and a quartet of Ensemble Resonanz took place in the resonanz raum. A large field of experimentation was created by the unusual use of microphones from PARRY AUDIO, partly mounted in the stairwell, in tin buckets and glass jars, equipped with paper rolls and other assecoires for fantastic sound worlds.
Sound engineer: Tim Altrichter
Assistance: Ruth Günther
The recording sessions for a CD with pianist Oliver Triendl and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz conducted by Eugene Tzigane took place at the Philharmonie Ludwigshafen.
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
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
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. link to the broadcast
Editor: Stefan Lang
Co-Production Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Capricco
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer DLFK: Henri Thaon
Technicians DLFK: Gunda Hercke, Anton Bruns, Weronika Marta Malinowska
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
Franz Welser-Möst conducted on September 3, 2022 in the Philharmonie Berlin the Cleveland Orchestra at the Musikfest Berlin.
The concert recording was broadcast on September 6, 2022, starting at 8:03 p.m. in the program "Konzert" on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. You can listen to the complete broadcast on the Deutschlandfunk Kultur website. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
Wolfgang Rihm
"Verwandlung 3", music for orchestra
"Verwandlung 2", music for orchestra
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944
The Cleveland Orchestra
Photo: © Julia Wesely
Editor DLFKultur: Olaf Wilhelmer
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer DLFK: Andreas Stoffels
Technician DLFK: Philipp Adelmann
The Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis performed Renaissance compositions in the Verden Cathedral as part of the Bremen Music Festival. Split into up to ten different partial choirs, spherical sound fabrics and an overwhelming, expansive vocal splendor were created. The recording of the concert for Deutschlandfunk is expected to be broadcast in January 2023.
Program:
Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium
Josquin Desprez: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi
John Sheppard: Media vita
Robert Carver: O bone Jesu
Alessandro Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem
Vox Luminis vocal and instrumental ensemble
Lionel Meunier, direction
Photo © Mario Leko
Editor DLF: Christiane Lehnigk
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer DLF: Hendrik Manook
Technician DLF: Rudi Babst
For the concert evening with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra in the Philharmonic Hall Gorzów, the PARRY AUDIO OB van traveled to Poland on behalf of Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The concert recording from August 6, 2022 was broadcast on August 12 from 20:03 on the program "Konzert" on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Zoltan Kodaly: Dances from Galánta
Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances op. 35
Darius Milhaud: "Le Boeuf sur le toit" (The ox on the roof) op. 58
Editor DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Johanna Vollus
Sound engineer: Karola Parry
Technician: Martin Siemßen
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.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
For a new CD project with saxophonist Asya Fateyeva and the Saarland State Orchestra conducted by Sébastien Rouland, recordings took place in the large broadcasting hall of the Saarland Funkhaus Halberg.
Photo co Marco Borggreve
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Thomas Becher
The concert recording of the franz ensemble from the Lambertikirche in Aurich on June 8, 2022 was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on June 9 from 8:03 pm in the program "In Concert".
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
Septet for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass, clarinet, french horn and bassoon
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String trio in C minor op. 9/3
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano for clarinet, bassoon, french horn, violoncello and double bass
Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Octet for 2 violins, viola, violoncello, double bass, clarinet, french horn and bassoon
françaix ensemble
Sarah Christian (violin)
Glenn Christensen (violin)
Yuko Hara (viola)
Tristan Cornut (violoncello)
Juliane Bruckmann (double bass)
Maximilian Krome (clarinet)
Rie Koyama (bassoon)
Pascal Deuber (french horn)
Photo: co. Ervis Zika
Editor DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Eva Pöpplein
Technician: Daniel Evers
For the tenth festival anniversary of the Gezeitenkonzerte (Tide Concerts), recorder player Maurice Steger put together a program with the renowned La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel, playing works by Handel, Telemann, Corelli, Vivaldi and Sarro. The concert in the Bonifatiuskirche Arle was recorded by Deutschlandfunk and will be broadcast on July 24 at 9:03 p.m. in the program "Concert Document of the Week" on Deutschlandfunk and on October 9 from 11:03 a.m. in the "Sunday Concert" on NDR Kultur.
Maurice Steger (recorders & musical direction)
La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel
Katharina Heutjer (violin)
Rahel Wittling (violin)
Joanna Michalak (viola)
Jonathan Pešek (cello)
Fred Uhlig (violone)
Daniele Caminiti (lute)
Joan Boronat Sanz (harpsichord)
Editors: Christiane Lehnigk, Elisabeth Richter
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound Engineer: Gunther Rose
Technician: Felix Konradi
Egils Levits in conversation with Stephan Detjen on Europe and the Ukraine war. The interview was recorded for Deutschlandfunk in the Consulate of Latvia of PARRY AUDIO.
The broadcast at Deutschlandfunk, here for re-listening
Voice recordings: Rouven Öttjes
For two broadcasts at Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the gala concert of Jazzahead Bremen at the concert hall Die Glocke was recorded with PARRY AUDIO's OB van. Toronto-born singer and pianist Laila Biali opened the gala concert of the Jazzahead festival with her trio.
Moderation: Matthias Wegner, Broadcast in Concert on 23.05.2022 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/jazzahead-laila-biali-trio-100.html
Photo: Laila Biali © Rockie Nolan
The second part of the gala concert with Malika Tirolien & band was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur in the program In Concert on 13.6.2022.
Editor: Matthias Wegner https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/malika-tirolien-band-live-in-bremen-dlf-kultur-171eedc6-100.html
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Technician: Tim Altrichter
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
Touching and thoughtfully moving, but at the same time life-affirming and positive is the program of the 5th symphony concert "Transformations" at the Stadttheater. For the concert recording for Deutschlandfunk Kultur (broadcast in the concert series on February 18, 2022, 20:03), the PARRY AUDIO OB van was once again in Bremerhaven.
LERA AUERBACH Icarus
VIKTOR ULLMANN Piano Concerto op. 25
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7 in D minor op. 70
Piano Jorrit van den Ham
Conductor Marc Niemann
Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven
Editor DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Rouven Öttjes
Technicians: Jakob Böttcher, Ruth Günther
The voice recordings for the audio feature about Hans Albers and Hansi Burg by Daniela Herzberg took place in the studio of PARRY AUDIO.
Actors: Stephan Schad, Nina Petri
Broadcast date Deutschlandfunk Kultur: 11.12.2021 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
Director and author: Daniela Herzberg
Voice recordings: Karola Parry
Foto: Hans Albers and Hansi Burg, ca. 1952 © imago / United Archives
For Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the PARRY AUDIO OBvan travels to Rostock. Two string quartets and a piano quintet were recorded at the Marstall for the concert broadcast on Oct. 24, 2021.
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major op. 81
Armida Quartet:
Martin Funda, violin
Johanna Staemmler, violin
Teresa Schwamm, viola
Peter-Philipp Staemmler, violoncello
Kit Armstrong, piano
Editor DLFKultur: Volker Michael
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Felix Epp
Technician: Ruth Günther
Opera - Theater Bonn
Link to the Opera
Recording from 10.10.2021
Broadcast date at Deutschlandfunk Kultur on 23.10.2021 at 19:05
Rolf Liebermann
"Leonore 40/45"
Opera semiseria in one prelude and two acts
Libretto: Heinrich Strobel
Yvette - Barbara Senator, soprano
Madame Germaine, Yvette's mother - Susanne Blattert, alto
Albert - Santiago Sánchez, tenor
Hermann, his father - Pavel Kudinov, bass-baritone
Lejeune, instrument maker - Martin Tzonev, bass
Choir of the Bonn Opera
Beethoven Orchestra Bonn
Conductor: Daniel Johannes Mayr
In 1959 Rolf Liebermann's Opera semiseria had its last new production. At that time, the Oldenburg audience resisted the fraternization drama between a German Wehrmacht soldier and a young French woman just as there had been protests at previous productions: post-war Germany was not ready for such a piece.
Editor and moderation DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Eva Pöpplein
Technician: Daniel Evers, Maurice Böhle
For Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the PARRY AUDIO OBvan drove to the island of Usedom. At the St. Michael Church in Krummin the Leipzig Quartet played string quartets by German and Lithuanian composers.
Stefan Arzberger, violin
Tilman Büning, violin
Ivo Bauer, viola
Peter Bruns, violoncello
Foto https://www.leipzigquartet.com/
The recording of Oct 15th will be broadcast in December 2021 on DLF Kultur
Editor DLFKultur: Stefan Lang
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Sound Engineer: Felix Epp
Technician: Ruth Günther
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
For Deutschlandradio Karola Parry supervised as recording producer two concerts within the Musikfest Bremen.
Concert recording 9.9.2021 Kirche Unser Lieben Frauen
Collegium Vocale Gent, vocal ensemble
Thomas C. Boysen, lute
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Editor Deutschlandradio: Christiane Lehnigk
Concert recording 10.9.2021 Glocke, large hall
Kammermusikalische Akademie
Kristian Bezuidenhout Hammerklavier & Friends
Editor Deutschlandradio: Christoph Schmitz
Foto Musikfest Bremen
Sound installation in public space by Uli M. Fischer
ART OFF HAMBURG Cultural Summer
September 3-5, 2021
www.art-off-hamburg.de/
Watercourses flow through the entire surface of the earth, some visible as streams or rivers, some seeking their ways invisibly underground.
These watercourses also flow beneath the heavily sealed surfaces of a large city. The few places where they become visible are usually filled in and built over as part of urban housing densification.
The water, however, remains, continuing to flow through the subsoil. It doesn't care about us and the sealing of surfaces, it seeks its own paths and gnaws away at the foundations of our built-up future.
Sound collage and mixing: Karola Parry
The voice recordings for the audio feature "Furious, visionary, misunderstood - A long night about the enigma Marlen Haushofer" by Elke Pressler took place in the studio of PARRY AUDIO.
Actors: Stephan Schad, Anita Gramser, Sascha Icks, Marion Martienszen, Hedi Kriegskotte, Anne Moll, Sonja Szylowicki, Achim Buch
Broadcast date: 16.10.2021 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-schriftstellerin-marlen-haushofer-wuetend-visionaer-100.html
Director and author: Elke Pressler
Voice recordings: Karola Parry
Foto: Book cover Ullstein
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 to be broadcast on May 22, 2021 at 19:05.
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 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
Broadcast June 15th 2019, 10.00 pm Deutschlandfunk Kultur
The Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with conductor Howard Griffiths recorded symphonic pieces by Jacques Offenbach „Orphée en enfers" in the Berlin RBB.
Coproduction Deutschlandfunk Kultur and cpo
Editor Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Rainer Pöllmann
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Ekkehard Stoffregen
Technician: Matthias Pätsch
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
disappearances - April 13th and 14th, Ensemble Resonanz played in the series Resonanzen in the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie. PARRY AUDIO made the recording with the mobile equipment.
Agata Zubel (soprano), Christina Daletska (mezzo-soprano), Emilio Pomàrico (conductor) and Ensemble Resonanz
Recording Producer: Chrisoph de la Chevallerie
Balance Engineer: Michael Jaeckel
https://www.ensembleresonanz.com/resonanz-digital/resonanzen/disappearances
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
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
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
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Realized with PARRY AUDIO mobile equipment: As a devoted pianist to Beethoven's music, Jingge Yan started in 2016 to record the complete 32 Beethoven Sonatas in Beethoven-Haus Bonn and thus became the first Chinese pianist in the history to interpret and record all Beethoven Sonatas.
With the release of the CDs 1 to 3 the big project is now successfully completed!
Piano: Grotrian Steinweg (Sponsor)
Telekom Bonn, Sponsor
Label: Fontenay Classics
Production PARRY AUDIO Hamburg
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Recording engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Editing, mastering: Christian Alpen, Johanna Vollus, Karola Parry
Set 1 CD 6-8: „Affetuoso", „The furious giant" „Eternal Transcendence", spring 2018
Set 2 CD 4+5: „Maturity and anxiety", „Fight and Triumph", autumn 2019
Set 3 CD 1-3: „The sensible man", „Gentle and refined love", „The energetic man", autumn 2020
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
With dance, performance and video installation, the piece "calling sirens" by chinese composer Huihui Cheng was recorded in the small broadcast hall of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne.
Label: Wergo, Contemporary Music Edition
Coproduction: Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Rainer Pöllmann), Deutscher Musikrat (Sina Miranda)
calling sirens / Dance: Sophia Otto / Trio: uBu / Choreography: Yves Ytier
Also on the cd: me du ca, narcissus & echo, messenger, your smartest choice
Recording Producer (your smartest choice, calling sirens): Karola Parry
CD mastering: Karola Parry
The recordings of Karst for the new CD of the composer Timothy McCormack were played by Ensemblekollektiv Berlin - four combined ensembles: ensemble mosaik, ensemble adapter, ensemble apparat, sonar quartet. conductor: Enno Poppe
Supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Imke List
Co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Rainer Pöllmann
Label: Kairos
Producer: Rainer Pöllmann
Recording Producer (Karst): Karola Parry
Mastering: Karola Parry
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
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Realized with PARRY AUDIO mobile equipment: As a devoted pianist to Beethoven's music, Jingge Yan started in 2016 recording the complete 32 Beethoven Sonatas in Beethoven-Haus Bonn and thus became the first Chinese pianist in the history to interpret and record all Beethoven Sonatas.
Now the second release with the two CDs 4 and 5 is available!
Piano: Grotrian Steinweg (Sponsor)
Telekom Bonn, Sponsor
Label: Fontenay Classics
Production PARRY AUDIO Hamburg
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Recording Engineer: Michael Jaeckel
Editing, Mastering: Christian Alpen, Karola Parry
Set 1 CD 6-8: „Affetuoso", „The furious giant" „Eternal Transcendence", spring 2018
Set 2 CD 4+5: „Maturity and anxiety", „Fight and Triumph", autumn 2019
Set 3 CD 1-3: „The sensible man", „Gentle and refined love", „The energetic man", release expected in 2020
Critics' Survey 2019 by Fono Forum: Which five CDs have impressed you most in the past year? Manuel Brug's choice:
The new CD of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and conductor Howard Griffiths with the Musique symphonique et ballets d'Orphée aux Enfers by Jacques Offenbach was recorded in March 2019 in the large broadcast hall of the Haus des Rundfunks Berlin.
Kevin Clarke (Operetta Research Center 29 August, 2019) writes in Dangerous when wet: "The must-have item on this new album, however, is music that was only recently discovered, composed by Offenbach as a later extra alteration of the 1874 version. (...)...it's a treat I enjoyed very much."
Co-production Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Rundfunk-Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Balance Engineer: Ekkehard Stoffregen
Technician: Matthias Pätsch
Executive Producer: Burkhard Schmilgun / Rainer Pöllmann
Label: cpo
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
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the church in Niendorf am Markt, a new calendar of a special kind was recorded in June and September following the example of the musical Advent calendar of 2002: The ensembles of the community sing and play 24 Advent and Christmas songs. The recordings with the mobile equipment of PARRY AUDIO took place in the Protestant church in Stellingen.
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Assistent: Ruth Günther
TENEBRAE - a sequence by Michael Batz to commemorate the victims of the Gestapo, tortured and murdered between 1933 and 1943 in the 'Stadthaus', Hamburg.
Composition: Ernst Bechert
The oratory will be presented on May 8th, 7 pm in Stadthöfen, Stadthausbrücke 8. Admission free.
The recordings with the Kammerchor Altona, conducted by Edzard Burchard, and Erik Schäffler (narrator) took place in the church St. Ansgar, Niendorf and in PARRY AUDIO Studio.
Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Foto:Gudrun Meyer, Stolpersteine in front of the entrance Stadthausbrücke 8
https://www.michaelbatz.de/sequenzen.html
The Serbian version of the orchestra tale for children by Howard Griffiths is on the way!
On the date of publication in March 2019 "The Witch and the Maestro" will be held at the Belgrade Philharmonic's Hall.
Music: Fabian Künzli
Conductor: Aleksandar Kojić
Narrators: Tamara Marinković & Slavica Perić
Editing and Mastering: Karola Parry
Release of the accordion-CD production reflections & self-reflections. Helmut C. Jacobs plays Leos Janàcek und Sigfrid Karg-Elpert.
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/das-muss-man-gehoert-haben
Label: Augemus Musikverlag
Recording: St. Petrus, Hamburg-Harburg
Recording Producer: Eberhard Schnellen
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
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
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
"Melody" to be played on any suitable instrument - John Cage's "Living Room Music" blurs the boundaries between music and event. Everyone can join in and open up their own rooms.
Ensemble Resonanz
Camera: Florian Schmuck
Mixing and Mastering: Karola Parry
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 a project of TV station ZDF with the working title "Laufen" filming took place 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
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.
https://www.ensembleresonanz.com/resonanz-digital/resonanzen/concerti-and-capricen
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
http://www.frantic-percussion.com/
Recording: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther
In cooperation with Steinway & Sons online and offline auditions for the 63rd International Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition took place from November 7 to 15, 2020 at Steinway & Sons dealers all over the globe. More than 90 young pianists were participating in 23 cities in 21 countries on four continents giving them the opportunity to play at or near their country of residence under the same, excellent conditions, featuring nothing less than a Steinway concert grand Model D.
Here you can find the videos of the competition.
Audio recording Hamburg: Karola Parry
Video production Hamburg: Ronald Frommann
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
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
With dance, performance and video installation, the piece "calling sirens" by chinese composer Huihui Cheng was recorded in the small broadcast hall of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne.
Label: Wergo, Contemporary Music Edition
Coproduction: Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Rainer Pöllmann), Deutscher Musikrat (Sina Miranda)
calling sirens / Dance: Sophia Otto / Trio: uBu / Choreography: Yves Ytier
Also on the cd: me du ca, narcissus & echo, messenger, your smartest choice
Recording Producer (your smartest choice, calling sirens): Karola Parry
CD mastering: Karola Parry
At the Konzerthaus Berlin, the piece "Secret Garden" by Mark Barden has been recorded with the Konzerthaus orchestra. Four Ambeo microphones were used for the 360° sound recording for an VR Experience.
Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer: Hajo Seiler
Karola Parry was responsible for the mix of the video of the children's concert "nächste ausfahrt lunar plexus (next exit lunar plexus)" with Felix Kubin, Mark Boombastik and Ensemble Resonanz Dec. 15th, 2019 in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
Felix Kubin, concept, composition, live electronics
Mark Boombastic, beatboxing, live sampling
Naama Freedman, performance
Annette Ter Meulen, lighting design and stage design
Alessandra Leone, visuals
Michael Göster and Andreas Kunz, stage design
Gloria Brillowska, costumes
Elisa Erkelenz, concept
Maj-Lene Tylkowski, assistant director
Mark Schröppel, director
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
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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