Bach – French Suites (La dolce volta)
Cédric Pescia has developed a deeply personal approach to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Under his fingers, it is never austere but instead reveals the composer’s humanity. And with the French Suites, the pianist takes us to the very depths of Bach’s soul.
Congratulations to Robert Neumann on winning first prize at the 2025 German Piano Competition!
Vol. 1 of the complete recording of all Beethoven Piano Trios (Op. 1/1, 3 and Op. 11 on Alpha) has been awarded with the German Record Critics’ Award.
Congratulations to the Poiesis Quartet from Cincinnati on winning first prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned composition at the 2025 Banff Competition!
The Juilliard String Quartet has announced that Leonard Fu has been appointed as the ensemble’s new second violinist. Fu succeeds Ronald Copes, who has been a member of the group for 28 years and given hundreds of concerts all over the world.
Daniel Ottensamer performs Brahms’ two clarinet sonatas in new orchestral arrangements by Stephan Koncz, who also conducts the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The album also features a rare gem: Walter Rabl’s prize-winning clarinet quartet, once championed by Brahms himself. Pianist Christoph Traxler and violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley join Ottensamer, with Koncz also contributing on cello, offering a rich portrait of late 19th-century Viennese music.
The Signum Quartet’s new album was released by ECM in 2025. It contains compositions by six South African composers from eight decades.
We are delighted to have Sebstian Berner representing us.
He won the prestigious Maurice Andrée Competition in 2022. What an accolade – a young trumpeter could not be more honoured! Grandiose musicality, utmost perfection and stylistic confidence are a matter of course for this likeable musician.
In January 2025, the Marmen Quartet released its first CD on BIS. It contains string quartets by György Ligeti and Béla Bartók and has already been honoured by Diapason with the Diapason D’Or and by pizzicato with the Supersonic Award.
The new album Impressions Parisiennes, which features works by Fauré, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice, was released by Alpha Classics on 30 August 2024. The mini-series ‘Ces Messieurs: ’ by Baptiste Trotignon is dedicated to the aforementioned composers.
Further information can be found here.
His new CD was released by Avi Music on 6 October 2023.
The title of the album was inspired by the name of the composition by Alexander Scriabin.
Congratulations to the Signum Quartet on winning the OPUS KLASSIK 2024 award for best chamber music recording of the year for the CD “Lebensmuth”.
All award winners 2024.