MD&G or Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (founded 1978) is a German classical record label based in Detmold run by recording engineers and producers Werner Dabringhaus and Reimund Grimm. [1] [2] [3] MDG is notable for its premiere recordings of works by German-language composers that have been forgotten, such as the sonatas and other chamber works of Paul Hindemith, [4] piano pieces by Ignaz Moscheles, and choral and chamber works by Magdalene Schauss-Flake.
MDG is an abbreviation for Millennium Development Goals.
Steffen Schleiermacher is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.
Darmstadt School refers to a group of composers who were associated with the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music from the early 1950s to the early 1960s in Darmstadt, Germany, and who shared some aesthetic attitudes. Initially, this included only Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, but others came to be added, in various ways. The term does not refer to an educational institution.
Stephen Marchionda is an American virtuoso classical guitar performer.
Thomas Müller-Pering is a classical guitarist from Germany. He studied under Prof. Tadashi Sasaki at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and performed in the master classes of John Williams, José Tomás, Oscar Ghiglia and Siegfried Behrend. In 1983 he was awarded 1st Prize in the "Concurso internacional de ejecución musical" in Viña del Mar, Chile. He has concertized throughout Europe, North and South-America, Africa and Asia. His numerous recordings include a collaboration with Manuel Barrueco with whom he recorded the "Danzas Españolas" by Enrique Granados for EMI. He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Köln from 1980 to 1998. He began teaching at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar in 1994 becoming a full professor at this school in 1997.
Harald Vogel is a German organist, organologist, and author. He is a leading expert on Renaissance and Baroque keyboard music. He has been professor of organ at the University of the Arts Bremen since 1994.
Der Golem is an opera in three acts by composer Eugen d'Albert. The work uses a German language libretto by Ferdinand Lion after Arthur Holitscher's 1908 play Der Golem: Ghettolengende in drei Aufzügen. The opera premiered on 14 November 1926 at the Oper Frankfurt, conducted by Clemens Krauss.
Käte van Tricht, was a German organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue.
Ida Bieler is an American violinist and professor of Violin.
Jozef De Beenhouwer is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist.
Frank Bungarten is a classical guitarist from Germany. Although he is often regarded as a Bach expert on the guitar, Bungarten plays a wide and diverse repertoire.
Jin Ju is a Chinese-born Italian pianist. Jin Ju studied piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She won the Echo Klassik piano recital award in 2012 for her recording of works by Czerny and Schubert.
Felix Draeseke's Quintet for Piano, Strings and Horn in B-flat major, Op. 48, was composed in 1888 and published a year later by Kistner of Leipzig. It was dedicated to Adolph Stern.
Julius Weismann was a German pianist, conductor, and composer.
Heinrich Albert was a German guitarist, composer and teacher – the most prominent German classical guitarist of his time.
Musica Alta Ripa is a musical ensemble from Hanover, specializing in Baroque music on period instruments.
The Mozart Piano Quartet is a classical music piano quartet founded in 2000 in Germany. The members are pianist Paul Rivinius, violinist Mark Gothoni, violist Hartmut Rohde, and cellist Peter Hoerr, who are all internationally prize-winning soloists.
The Violin Sonata No. 2 for piano and violin, in D major, Op. 11, No. 2, is the second surviving violin sonata for the two instruments by Paul Hindemith, composed in 1918. It was published as Sonate in D für Klavier und Violine.
Markus Becker is a German pianist and academic teacher. He is focused on chamber music, and on piano concertos from the time around 1900. His recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger earned him awards. He is also a jazz pianist, and has been professor of piano and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover since 1993.
Magdalene Schauss-Flake was a German composer and organist who gave recitals throughout the United States and Europe.