Posts Tagged "Abbey Road"

If you are a frequent user of Last.fm you might be delighted to hear that I just did a complete update of my profile there and put up a lot of audio files there. Click HERE to go to my Last.fm page.

After quite a few months went by since the recording of my Violin Concerto for Anna Karkowska and the London Symphony Orchestra in July 2010, finally a CD has been released which contains the concerto together with selections from Paganini, Wienawski and Sarasate. The 2 CD set “Virtuosity” has been released by the lable Starlight Classics and can be ordered on their site: http://www.starlightclassics.com/. You can get more information about the CD as well as listen to some audio snippets on the site. The CD comes together with a nice paper digipak including a booklet with a few notes on the recording as well as the creation process of my concerto. However, as happy as I am about the release of this CD, I want to clearly express that I do not endorse...

A few days ago, video footage from the recording of my Violin Concerto for Anna Karkowska and the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios was made availabe on Youtube. It includes footage from the recording session as well as interviews and short clips from the recording and is available in High Definition. There are interviews included with Anna Karkowska, conductor Benjamin Wallfisch, Violinist expert Benjamin Hebbert, pianist and producer Kasha Karkowska, violinist and conductor Dennis Simons, me and others. You can have a look at the videos below: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: The recording  will be available fall of this...

3 days ago, I flew over to London to conclude a project that I have been working on for months now. In February I got commissioned by the great New York based violinst Anna Karkowska to write her a violin concerto which was going to be recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra in the famous Abbey Road studios. I, of course, did not hesitate a moment and started working on it right away. It was supposed to be a very filmic sounding concerto with violin and orchestra being equal partners so with this great orchestra and soloist on my fingertips, I knew I could write music that would explore the brillance of Anna and each and every player of the orchestra on different levels. The collaboration with Anna went very smoothly, I showed her ideas throughout the...