H?FS,MATTHIAS - Kind Of Gold (Sealed) (CD)

The impulse for this unique album was actually given by a special deficiency: "There is a great deal of music literature very few works in which one can find this concentrated sound," says Matthias H?fs. And if one of the most renowned German trumpet virtuosos of concentrated sound, then you can't even think big enough. Matthias H?fs brings together current and former students of his trumpet class at the Hamburg University of Music. yourself. You and other companions and friends She and other companions and friends, who are meanwhile distributed over the big German orchestras, make this album a musical reunion, so to speak. Matthias H?fs fascinates. Matthias H?fs fascinates with and in various ensembles with works that are seldom heard otherwise gets: From Jan?c?eks Sokol-Fanfare from the Sinfonietta, Strauss' festival music of the city of Vienna (with 10 trumpets, 7 trombones, 2 tubes and timpani) over two fanfares by Stravinsky on the Japanese composer Itaru Sakais Sinfonia & Caprice. The centre is Wolf Kerscheks The Trumpets Shall Sound for Solo Trumpet, nine Trumpets and orchestra - a large-scale work, which the actually from jazz and film music Kerschek wrote especially for Matthias H?fs. "When do you ever have so many trumpets? There must you have to come up with something," says the composer, who also at the Hochschule f?r Musik und Theater Hamburg teaches. Therefore one hears in his work the most diverse Influences and accesses to the instrument trumpet. From Trumpet signals and fanfares from the military context, echoes of ethereal divine heavenly worlds, the walls of Jericho falling trumpets of the Last Judgement - all intellectual starting points for the composer, who in Matthias H?fs has created the perfect musical partner: "It's a real musical partner. Symbiosis and the best thing that happens to a composer A soloist who has imagination. A soloist who has fantasy, is curious and open, who wants to tread new paths, but also has his own imagination which he can mediate." Not without reason countless former students feel compelled to do so, to participate in this special project. "The beautiful thing about of the production is that the most different generations of the trumpet class of Matthias H?fs. We have the same idea behind making music and there you can feel that we all come from the same school", so Andre Schoch from the Berliner Philharmoniker.