Max Volbers & Ensemble: Whispers of Tradition - CD Trailer
Whispers of Tradition - CD Trailer
With his debut CD "Whispers of Tradition" on GENUIN, recorder player Max Volbers presents "a stylistically very diverse program, with two concerti, a premiere, music with variable continuo instrumentation and consort. These are either the composer's own paraphrases, series of variations, arrangements, pastiche and so on - or, as in the case of the Dieupart Suite, arranged for the recorder by the composer himself. The piece "Please enter the Underground" was written by Thanos Sakellaridis for Elisabeth and me. What all the pieces have in common is a joy of discovery and a desire to create new repertoire for the recorder."
Together with 11 musician friends and with a total of 26 different instruments - archlute, harpsichord, violin, viola da gamba and, of course, a wide variety of recorders - the winner of the German Music Competition 2021, who studied with Dorothee Oberlinger, among others, explores the possibilities of expanding the recorder repertoire and shows on the recording "in what different formations the recorder can act, and also what the roles are that it takes on."
Max Volbers | recorder & direction
Alfia Bakieva, Jonathan Ponet | violin
Martin Schneider | viola
Robert Smith | cello, viola da gamba
Axel Wolf | archlute
Alexander von Heißen | harpsichord
Elisabeth Wirth, Felix Gutschi, Jonathan Volbers | recorder
Anne-Suse Enßle | baroque bassoon, recorder
Arisa Yoshida | contrabass
Piotr Furmanczyk | sound engineer & videographer
Theresa Pewal | photography
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