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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

rondomagazin critic

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

https://www.jinggeyan.com/

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

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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
 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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 for a film with the cellist Antoaneta Emanuilova were made in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle. She plays the 3rd Cello Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach on a baroque cello.

Video: Florian Schmuck

Recording producer: Karola Parry

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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.

Here you can see the video

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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.

Recording Producer: Karola Parry
Video: Lémuel Grave

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The recordings for the new CD of cellist Niklas Schmidt took place in July in the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Harburg, which is known for its excellent acoustics. The pianist Stepan Simonian accompanied on the piano.

Recording Producer: Karola Parry

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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
 

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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

some impressions

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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

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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

www.ensembleresonanz.com

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• Robert Atzorn
• Michael Batz
• Rolf Becker
• Sybille Berg
• Jantje Bilker
• Nick Bolton
• Emily Brandt-Clarke
• Charles Brauer
• Robin Brosch
• Jo Brauner
• Achim Buch
• Tommaso Cacciapuoti
• Michael Degen
• Marlen Diekhoff
• Karoline Eichhorn
• Hannelore Elsner
• Peter Franke
• Gerd Garbers
• Martina Gedeck
• Paul Glaser
• Sylvester Groth
• Ulla Hahn
• Oliver Herrmann
• Donata Hoeffer
• Hannelore Hoger
• Charly Hübner
• Tammo Kaulbarsch
• Siegfried Kernen
• Burghart Klaußner
• Carmen Korn
• Cornelia Kühn-Leitz
• Doris Kunstmann
• Volker Lechtenbrink
• Rabea Lübbe
• Maresa Lühle
• Marion Martienzen
• Eva Mattes
• Bernd Moss
• Hans Paetsch
• Nina Petri
• Michael Prelle
• Christian Quadflieg
• Jan Philipp Reemtsma
• Patricia Rieckhoff
• Stella Roberts
• Viola Roggenkamp
• Stephan Schad
• Anna Schäfer
• Erik Schäffler
• Hans-Jürgen Schatz
• Rainer Schmitt
• Suzanne Süssenbach
• Ulrich Tukur
• Isabella Vértes-Schütter
• Gerd Wameling
• Anne Weber
• Anya Weihe
• Samuel Weiss
• and more

• Philipp Ahmann
• Kit Armstrong
• Frauke Aulbert
• Bar Avni
• Mark Baden
• Hermann Bäumer
• Ivone Bambirra
• Cecilia Bartoli
• Ernst Bechert
• Jeroen Berwaerts
• Elisaveta Blumina
• Andrey Boreyko
• Hermann Breuer
• Shirley Brill
• Eleonore Bühler-Kestler
• Valentin Butt
• Luise Catenhusen
• Huihui Cheng
• Menno van Delft
• Bryce Dessner
• Florian Donderer
• Paquito D´Rivera
• Johannes Ernst
• Christoph Eschenbach
• Holger Falk
• Asya Fateyeva
• Ian Fountain
• Vilde Frang
• Gustav Frielinghaus
• Sol Gabetta
• David Geringas
• Petras Geniusas
• Mila Georgieva
• Howard Griffiths
• Leon Gurvitch
• Shanna Gutierrez
• Matthew Halls
• Yuko Hara
• Wally Hase
• Konstantin Heintel
• Volker Höh
• Matthias Hoffmann-Borggrefe
• Heidrun Holtmann
• Daniel Inbal
• Gośka Isphording
• Christoph Israel
• Helmut C. Jacobs
• Kristian Järvi
• Mariss Jansons
• Michael Jurowski
• Kalle Kallima
• Johannes Kalitzke
• Ulrich Koella
• Lothar Koenigs
• Shoko Kuroe
• Marie-Pierre Langlamet
• Elisabeth Leonskaja
• Maria Lettberg
• Jobst Liebrecht
• Dagmar Lübking
• Jens Peter Maintz
• Clemens Malich
• Ralf Manno
• Ion Marin
• Maria Markina
• Tatjana Masurenko
• Marco Marzocchi
• Mara Mednik
• Klaus Mertens
• Ingo Metzmacher
• Riccardo Minasi
• Thomas Mohr
• Thomas Müller-Pering
• Jakob Neubauer
• Joost de Nooijer
• Rolf Plagge
• Enno Poppe
• Christoph Prégardien
• Jean-Guihen Queyras
• Gintaras Rinkevicius
• Roberto Saccá
• Lise de la Salle
• Michael Sanderling
• Ulf-Dieter Schaaf
• Tatjana Schatz
• Steffen Schleiermacher
• Niklas Schmidt
• Eric Schneider
• Christian Seibold
• Edward Serov
• Lahav Shani
• Stepan Simonyan
• Solveig Slettahjell
• Julian Steckel
• Andreas Staier
• Margot Stejskal
• Jeffrey Tate
• Tanja Tetzlaff
• Klaus Thunemann
• Taneli Turunen
• Anatol Ugorski
• Deborah Voigt
• Markus Voigt
• Thomas Wellen
• Antje Weithaas
• Kerstin Wolf
• Steffen Wolf
• Jingge Yan
• Derya Yildirim
• Emma Yoon
• Simone Young
• Tabea Zimmermann

• Aspen Wind Quintett / Paquito d´Rivera
• Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester
• Bremer Philharmoniker
• Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
• Ensemble Resonanz
• Fjarill
• Glückauf Bergbauorchester
• Gstaad Festival Orchestra
• Hamburger Camerata
• Houston Chamber Players
• Jazzlab-Kollektiv
• Kairos Quartett
• Kizuna Quartett
• Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble
• Kronos Quartett
• Kuss Quartett
• Landessinfonieorchester Thüringen-Gotha
• Leipziger Streichquartett
• Leipziger Vokalsolisten
• Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski
• Lithuanian State Orchestra
• Mathias Eyck Quintet
• Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle
• NDR Chor
• NDR Sinfonieorchester
• Orpheus Quartett
• Osnabrücker Symphoniker
• Philharmoniker Hamburg
• Philharmonisches Orchester Lübeck
• Philharmonisches Orchester Wolgograd
• Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest
• Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
• Staatskapelle Weimar
• Symphoniker Hamburg
• Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
• Vorpommersches Sinfonie Orchester Greifswald
• Wiener Philharmoniker
• World Doctors Orchestra
• and more

• Arche-Verlag
• D>A<V
• Deutschlandfunk
• DGLiteratur
• DGJunior
• HamburgerSchulbehörde
• HeyneVerlag
• Hoffmann und Campe
• HörbuchHamburg
• Michael Batz
• NaxosWort
• NDR
• RowohltVerlag
• RandomHouse
• VerlagKreuz 
• VerlagHerder
• Westermann-Verlag

• arte 
• barbarella Produktion 
• beckground TV/NDR 
• ensemble resonanz
• Sat1 
• Tremonia Media
• World Doctors Orchestra
• ZDF

• Augemus
• Capriccio
• cpo
• crystal records
• Danacord
• Decca
• Deutsche Grammophon
• Deutscher Musikrat
• Dacapo
• Deutsche Welle
• Deutschlandfunk
• Deutschlandfunk Kultur
• edel CLASSICS / Berlin CLASSICS
• Fontenay Classics International
• Hänssler Classic
• Hänssler Profil
• Harmonia Mundi
• Klassik Radio
• MDR
• Melangement
• Motette
• Musikfest Bremen GmbH
• NDR
• Polygram
• Querstand
• Radio Bremen
• ResonanzRaumRecords
• RCA/Sony
• Sony Classical
• Thorofon
• Troubadisc
• Universal Music France
• Wergo

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

rondomagazin critic

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.«