Apollon Musagète, a.o.

- Three of Stravinsky's most wonderful and beloved works on one CD: the great ballet music for "Apollon Musagte", here performed in the 1947 revision by Stravinsky, when he himself called the work simply "Apollo": the Concerto in Eb, better known as "Dumbarton Oaks" after the estate of the lady who commissioned the work; and the ever popular Concerto in D Major for strings, one of his most accessible works.

- Nieuw Sinronietta Amsterdam and their conductor Lev Markiz are justly famous for their Stravinsky interpretations and this CD shows why this is so. The "Apollonian" beauty of the Apollo music, the enthusiastic and virtuoso performance of "Dumbarton Oaks" (modelled by Stravinsky on Bach's Brandenburg Concertos) and the rousing performance or the Concerto In D for Strings, will not fail to miss equal enthusiasm with any listener.

- An extremely interesting CD full or musical treasures, captured in a glorious sound picture. 

 

Nieuw Sinronietta Amsterdam was founded in 1987 and their first concerts in 1988 already met with enthusiastic approval from public and critics alike. Since then Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam has acqjuired a firm place of its own in concert life. The highlight of the season 1988/89 was their concert series with Russian Music from the twentieth century. Successful concert tours to the United States and Germany followed with programs based on the works of Stravinsky. The NSA season or 1990/91 Opened with a series of three programs with works by Shostakovich. Highly successful concert tours then took the ensemble agnin to the United States and Germany, and also to France and Russia.

Lev Markiz was born in Moscow, where he studied conducting with Kirill Kondrashin at the Moscow Conservatory. Since its foundation In 1955 Lev Markiz was soloist and leader of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. In 1965 he founded his own chamber orchestra, The Moscow Soloists, with which he made a great many recordings with repertoire ranging from early baroque to contemporary music. Since its foundation Lev Markiz has been the principal conductor and artistic director or Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam.