This tiny bit of music is particularly interesting because of its arrangement – try to follow individual voices – you will see, it’s quite hard Especially in this amazing interpretation by the King’s Singers.

Download the score la, la, la, la je ne l’ose dire.

A friend of mine introduced me to Spinosi’s interpretation of Vivaldi’s Op. 439 “La notte” – I found it amazing and fresh. Thus I want to share this amazing pice of music with you:

(Unfortunately I could not find the scores for the Vivaldi online beside this one at Google Books which is quite restricted.)

Also check out this Telemann interpretation (TWV 52:e1): which is as impressive as the Vivaldi above.

Elise Reichert
*1923 – †2009

The Kino Dynamique Jena (KDJ) festival offered a spot for filmmakers from all over the world to meet and work together producing short movies. They got 60 hours of time for developing an initial idea, filming, cutting, post-processing and presenting the movies in a public screening at the Schillerhof cinema – plenty of time so to say
Nico Herzog came up with the Idea to visualize the flute playing and the sounds coming from the instrument. Izabela Spaleniak and me used the opportunity to help out Nico playing a improvised voiceless dialog with our flutes. The title “Der Besondere Kuß” actually originates from an article by Arthur Schopenhauer, who stated that the flute player’s lips actually form the shape of a special gentle kiss rather for a beloved one than for an instrument. Probably, this is one reason for the very special relation between flautists and their instruments – I like that idea

See the result:

Thank you Iza, Nico and Mathias for your support and of course: Thanks to the people who organized the festival!

Also have a look at some other movies produced at the festival here!

The Dandy Desmond Doping Tour just launched their new blog. They’ll report about the progress of their current recordings and publish early mixdowns and lot’s of background infos about Desmond’s music. Have a look!

I am back from the 2009 tour of “Compagnie Aquanaut” where I was playing flute and EWI at the this years show “Pirate Queens”.

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Just let me put some pictures here:

Recorded by Martin Hünniger, Mathias Krauß and Stephan in May 2009.

Download audio file (Freeze%20Police.mp3)

“Freeze Police” is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.

Recorded by the Dandy Desmond Doping Tour (Martin Hünniger/guitar, Stephan Hepper/flute and Jörg Breitbart/piano) in December 2008.

Download audio file (HammaKlavier.mp3)

“HammaKlavier” is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.

Recitativo:

Er hat uns allen wohlgetan.
Den Blinden gab er das Gesicht,
die Lahmen macht er gehend;
er sagt’ uns seines Vaters Wort,
er trieb die Teufel fort;
Betrübte hat er aufgericht’t
er nahm die Sünder auf und an;
sonst hat mein Jesus nichts getan.

Aria:

Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben, aus Liebe,
aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,
aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,
Von einer Sünde weiß er nichts, nichts, von einer Sünde weiß er nichts.

daß das ewige Verderben und die Strafe des Gerichts nicht auf meiner Seele bliebe.
Aus Liebe, aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,
aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,
von einer Sünde weiß er nichts, nichts, von einer Sünde weiß er nichts. 

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben

Download Score from Werner Icking’s Archive

Georg-Friedrich Händel,
Rinaldo, Act II, Scene 4

premiered 24th February, 1711 in London “Queen’s Theatre”

[...]
Lascia ch’io pianga
mi cruda sorte,
e che so spiri la liberta,
e che sospiri
e che sospiri la liberta!

lascia ch’io pianga
mia cruda sorte,
e che sospiri la liberta!

Il duolo infranga quest ritorte,
de’ miei martiri
sol per pieta
de’ miei martiri
sol per pieta

Philippe Jaroussky “Lascia ch’io pianga”, Rinaldo G.F. Händel, Telecast

Download Score lascia ch io pianga.jpg (excerpt, orchestral score)