Lautten Compagney / Wolfgang Katschner TIME ZONES

 

TIME ZONES

 

Anna Prohaska / Lautten Compagney / Wolfgang Katschner BACH Redemption

BACH REDEMPTION

Vivica Genaux / Lawrence Zazzo / Lautten Compagney / Wolfgang Katschner ...BAROQUE GENDER STORIES

...BAROQUE GENDER STORIES

Dorothee Mields / Lautten Compagney / Wolfgang Katschner WAR & PEACE 1618 : 1918

Some time ago Dorothee Mields asked me if we could perhaps perform some songs by Friedrich Hollaender. A glance at the fragile manuscript of his Lieder eines armen Mädchens (1921–24) revealed many similarities with the songs of the seventeenth century. The printed editions and manu- script scores that have come down to us from the early Baroque contain very little information and yet they conceal within them whole worlds of musical expression. 

And then the year 2018 arrived, with its linking lines going back to 1618 and the outbreak of the Thirty Years War and to 1918, the end of the First World War. We have placed the First World War within the context of the period from 1914 to 1945, resulting in a further Thirty Years War. Both of these periods ended in extensive changes to existing political systems.

What are the links between works written over a three-hundred-year period? In all of the vocal pieces that are included in this release it is the words that provide this link – all are text-related. The German musicians and poets at the time of the Thirty Years War were all part of the sixteenth-century tradition of the Reformation and as such were looking for new forms for the German language and for new ways in which that language could develop. In their attempt to lend a common impulse to language and literature these poets and musicians formed groups and societies that may nowadays strike us as comical. Their number included the poets and musicians featured in this recording. (Wolfgang Katschner)

Julia Schröder / Lautten Compagney MISTERIO

Julia Schröder received her first violin lessons from her father, and piano lessons from her mother. At the age of 15, she entered the conservatory “Gasteig” in Munich and two years later the Musikhochschule Basel together with Adelina Oprean.

Further studies led her towards Walter Levin and Hatto Beyerle, Rapheal Oleg, Lukas Hagen (Hagenquartett, Salzburg). Chiara Bancchini was her teacher for the baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Julia Schröder is a concertmaster and director of the Kammerorchester Basel since 2004. Under her leadership the ensemble played in major concert halls in Europe such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Barbican Center in London. In parallel she is a soloist accompanying artists such as Sol Gabetta, Giuliano Carmignola, Angelika Kirchschlager, Andreas Scholl, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Pieter Wispelwey, Angela Hewitt, Núria Rial, Franco Fagioli and Cecilia Bartoli.

In 2010 she was called at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (D) to be a violin professor. “Teaching satisfies me when I see young people growing up, not only as a violinist, not only as a musician but also as a human being. For me the way to a professional musician is also the way to the heart of his own humanity.” (Julia Schröder).

Julia Schröder is regularly invited as soloist and director of Lautten Compagney Berlin. Her enthusiastic playing technique makes her a very popular musician in the field chamber music. She enjoys playing with Maurice Steger, Marcelo Nisinman, Gerard Wyss, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner.