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Sofia Jernberg & Holger Falk: new CD “Atara“
Very recently the new CD-recording of Chaya Czernowin‘s „Atara" has been released at the Kairos label featuring the vocal artist Sofia Jernberg and the baritone Holger Falk. Conductor Christian Karlsen leads the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in the live-recording of the world premiere that was presented at the Wiener Musikverein in November 2021 by Wien Modern. Atara, born from the isolation of 2020, is a powerful orchestral lament, where vast sonic masses collide with the delicate voices of two singers, lost yet luminous. The work has been written for and been inspired by the two singers. The German premiere has been performed at BR Musica Viva in March 2023 at the Herkulessaal together with the BR Symphonieorchester.
(published on 27 May 2025)
Sara Hershkowitz: new Erich Zeisl CD
In May 2025, the new CD-recording Erich Zeisl Lieder Vol. 3 has been released at the Naxos label presenting the US-American soprano Sara Hershkowitz. The Jewish Viennese composer was born 1905 and emigrated 1939 to Los Angeles, where he died of a heart attack in 1959. He wrote his Lied compositions during his creative time in Vienna, in the States he couldn’t continue this success. In exile, he wrote no more songs. But he composed piano pieces such as Pieces for Barbara for his daughter and other works. This CD recording took place in 2021 and 2024 in Los Angeles. Sara Hershkowitz is accompagnied on the piano by So-Mang Jeagal, the piano works are played by Gloria Cheng. It is Sara Hershkowitz first Lieder-CD which continues the Naxos recording series presenting Erich Zeisl’s numerous Lied oeuvre for the first time on CD.
(published on 26 May 2025)
Sofia Jernberg: Debut Armory Hall NYC
On 20 May 2025, vocal artist Sofia Jernberg will make her debut in two concerts at the Park Avenue Armory Hall in New York City. She will perform solo works as well as compositions and improvisations in duo together with cellist Tomeka Reid. Sofia Jernberg‘s One Pitch: Birds for Distortion and Mouth Synthesizers builds the center of this outstanding programme, in which Sofia Jernberg will demonstrate her unique artistry and her fascinating voice. Just in April, she made her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in a world premiere by Chaya Czernowin together with the LA Phil.
(published on 9 May 2025)
Eva Resch: Recital Wiener Konzerthaus
On 20 May 2025, the soprano Eva Resch will return in a recital to the Wiener Konzerthaus. In the context of the 41. International Musikfest presented by the Konzerthaus she will perform her new programme Red – an evening about love, violence and death together with the pianist Eric Schneider. They will interpret Lieder by B. Britten, H. Eisler, W. A. Mozart, D. Shostakovich, F. Schubert, R. Strauss, K. Weill, H. Wolf, A. Schönberg i. a.. The programme will soon also be recorded and released on CD. Eva Resch already made her successful debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2022 in Bernhard Lang’s Cold Trip I + II.
(published on 7 May 2025)
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