Ruben Gazarian

• Richard Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
• Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (arranged for Soprano and String Orchestra by Gerhard Heydt)
• Franz Schreker: Intermezzo op. 8 for String Orchestra
• Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arranged for voice and chamber orchestra by Andreas Tarkmann)
• Anton Arensky: Finale from the Quartet in A minor op. 35

• Elena Zhidkova, Mezzo-soprano
• Marian Pop, Baritone
• Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt

The Georgisches Kammerorchester (Georgian Chamber Orchestra) Ingolstadt and its artistic director Ruben Gazarian presents their third joint CD recording. Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite pays homage to the great Russian dancer and choreographer Maya Plisetskaya, who died in her adopted hometown of Munich in May 2015. At the same time, it honors her husband, composer Rodion Shchedrin, who in 2017 celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday. Rodion Shchedrin wrote Carmen Suite in the mid-1960s for his wife. The work is a ballet score for strings and percussion after motives from Georges Bizet’s opera of the same name. The best-known melodies from the opera are stylistically modified by a nuanced orchestration that changes the overall coloring, and by more poignant rhythm. Furthermore, Carmen Suite reflects motives from the Second L’Arlesienne Suite.

The present CD release is the live recording of a concert in Ingolstadt on October 15, 2015. It has been available for sale since July 2016.

AUDI Summer Concerts 2016  

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 10 in B minor for String Orchestra
• Avner Dorman: „Frozen in time“ for Percussion and Chamber Orchestra
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor op. 25
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 in A major „Italian“
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  Simone Rubino, Percussion
• Wataru Hisasue, Piano
• Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt

International Music Festival Kreuth 2016 

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture „La finta giardiniera“
• Richard Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
• Leoš Janáček: Suite for String Orchestra
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major K. 622

• Annelien van Wauwe, Clarinet
• Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt

AUDI Summer Concerts 2016  

Gustav Holst: The Planets (arranged for chamber orchestra by Helmut Imig)

• Malte Arkona, Narrator
• Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt

Rheingau Music Festival 2016

• Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 2 in D major Hob. VIId:4
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for Strings in D major K. 136
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra K. 370b+371
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major K. 201
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade in G major K. 525 „Eine kleine Nachtmusik“

• Felix Klieser, Horn
• Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn