Arensky, Hindemith, Schreker & Mendelssohn: Orchestral Works
7/20/2018, 11 Tracks, 1:02:59
Featuring
Ruben Gazarian
Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt
Anton Arensky
Paul Hindemith
Franz Schreker
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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Historical Context
The Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, founded in 1964 in Tbilisi, Georgia, moved to Ingolstadt, Germany, in 1990, where it has been based ever since.
Performer Biography
Ruben Gazarian, the conductor, won the 1st International Conductors' Competition 'Sir Georg Solti' in Frankfurt am Main shortly before joining the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.
Performer Biography
Ruben Gazarian has been the Artistic Director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn since 2002 and additionally became Artistic Director of the Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt in 2015.
Performer Biography
Ruben Gazarian, the conductor, received his first violin lesson from his father at the age of four in Armenia.
Critical Reception
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a contemporary composer, harshly predicted that Anton Arensky, whose String Quartet No. 2 is on this album, would be quickly forgotten, negatively impacting Arensky's reception for decades.
Compositional Technique
Paul Hindemith's Five Pieces op. 44/4 for string orchestra, written in the late 1920s, were originally intended for amateur musicians.
Historical Context
The Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt still consists almost entirely of musicians from Georgia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, maintaining its Eastern European character even in exile.
