This album was recorded in March 2015 at Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, using Bruel & Kjaer 4006 and Schoeps microphones, and DSD Super Audio digital conversion.
Performer Biography
Jeremias Schwarzer also creates unconventional concert and communication projects, such as 'changeXchange' in 2012, which allowed amateurs to work with professional artists.
Composition History
Toshio Hosokawa's 'Singing Garden in Venice' was commissioned by Jeremias Schwarzer and is the first time Hosokawa has written around existing music, intertwining elements from Vivaldi's pieces.
Interpretation
For the Vivaldi concertos on this recording, Jeremias Schwarzer used material from a 1729 orchestral edition and earlier solo settings from Turin manuscript sources (ca. 1715-25).
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Hosokawa, silence is perhaps more important than sound, and he sees a major difference between European and Eastern music in their approach to sound and silence.
Performer Biography
Jeremias Schwarzer, the recorder soloist on this album, has premiered over seventy works, demonstrating his commitment to expanding his instrument's repertoire.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Toshio Hosokawa, one of the composers on this album, compares his music to the work of a calligrapher, where the movement begins in the air and the visible mark is only part of the experience.
