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The Wagner Project

Kathrin Zukowski & KammerMusikKöln

Label: CAvi
Format: CD
Barcode: 4260085535309
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Catalog number: AVI 8553530
Releasedate: 03-05-24
- Only rarities for mthe chamber music format. Very unusual for Wagner. Oinly insiders are aware of the arrangement of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Prelude to Tristan und Isolde. World premieres are the arrangements by Simone Fonatnelli of the Wesendonck Songs and the nunknown early French Songs.
- The soprano Kathrin Zukowski is on her steep way toe the soprano heaven, a young and phantastic soprano voice from the Ensemble of the Cologne opera.
- Rarities not only for Wagner fans but interesting to listen to Wagner great music with a small ensemble.
THE WAGNER PROJECT

The recording of this CD on the occasion of the “10 1” anniversary concert of the KammerMusikKöln ensemble stood entirely under the motto of Richard Wagner, reflecting our desire to put on several of his works in arrangements for chamber music ensemble. Thus, with this Wagner Project, we present several rarities along with a world première. For one, we are thrilled to introduce Engelbert Humperdinck’s almost entirely unknown arrangement of the prelude to Tristan und Isolde.

This recording also features a true world première: Wagner’s extremely rarely performed French Songs in an arrangement we have commissioned from Simone Fontanelli, coupled with the second public performance of Fontanelli’s arrangement of Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, a further commission by KammerMusikKöln.

We also have the particular pleasure of presenting Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll in the composer’s own chamber music arrangement, a particularly gratifying piece for small ensemble. We consider ourselves particularly lucky to celebrate KammerMusikKöln’s anniversary with the largest project we have ever put together, featuring fifteen instrumentalists and a vocal soloist.

And we are fortunate to count on the collaboration of soprano Kathrin Zukowski, a member of the regular ensemble of soloists at Cologne Opera.