Symphony No. 9 in E minor
„From the New World“

Concerto Budapest
András Keller

LP, Vinyl 180g (total playing time: 42’31)
Order no.: 0250-1
Barcode: 40 09850 025016

Better little than toovyl * -
Vinyl. But what a vinyl!

Granted, you could have added a gold border and numbered it, but I honestly forgot, and between you and me - does that even matter with TACET? Everybody knows it already. Sound at its best, Inspiring Tube Sound, side 2 even in TACET Playbackwards mode, and then only the music! When the cellos start very softly, so softly and tenderly that you feel all the melancholy, all the homesickness of Dvorák in the New World for his homeland, if you want to turn up the volume, no no, don't do that, at least not toovyl, you will hear why - have fun!

* untranslatable German wordplay

Hungarian Pictures, Concerto for Orchestra

Concerto Budapest, András Keller

SACD (total playing time: 47:46)
Order no.: 0262-4

Barcode: 40 09850 026242

Inspiring Tube Sound, TACET Real Surround Sound (5.1), High Resolution Stereo (24 bit / 96 kHz) and CD-Layer (44.1 kHz)

„… Sie (Bartók und Kodály) wollten nicht nur das Ungarische ins Licht setzen, keine bloße Kolonie der deutschen Musikgeschichte bedienen, sondern die Volksmusik in allen ihren Ausprägungen studieren, zudem – so Bartók 1931 – der Verbrüderung der Völker dienen. Später zielten sie explizit auf „eine Synthese von Ost und West“. Gerade diese Wendung vom Ungarischen zum Globalen zeigt sich nirgendwo deutlicher als in einem der letzten Werke, dem Concerto for Orchestra, das äußerlich an die Ungarischen Bilder anknüpft, so wie diese an die frühe Zeit der Volksmusikforschung…“ (aus dem Beihefttext von Jan Reichow)

This recording (like the entire TACET catalog, by the way) not only captivates on first listen, but invites you to savor countless small details, each twist a treasure that András Keller and the musicians of Concerto Budapest bring out as knowledgeably as they do lovingly.

Symphony no. 9

Concerto Budapest, András Keller

Hybrid-SACD (Gesamtspielzeit 79:04)

Order no.: 0254-4
Barcode: 4009850025443
TACET Real Surround Sound & stereo

This is not the ninth 5th, but still the fifth 9th symphony by András Keller with Concerto Budapest on TACET! After Bruckner, Dvořák, Shostakovich and Schubert (it now counts as the 8th), now Mahler. An impressive testament to the range of this unusual orchestra and its unique conductor.

Certainly there are countless other recordings, also very good, of these last finished symphonies of great composers. However, I find that Keller's interpretations, with his unconditional will to express in detail, can compete with any, even the best known. Recordings of that repertoire in TACET Real Surround Sound are completely new. They bring to light previously hidden beauties and place the listener in the middle of the music. This also allows you to hear these works in a completely new way.

Complete piano sonatas vol. 8
Sonatas K. 266 – K. 295
Christoph Ullrich, piano

2 CDs (total playing time: 115:56)
Order no.:. 0275-0
Barcode 40 09850 027508

2 CDs (total playing time: 115:56)

Order no.: 0275-0

Barcode 40 09850 027508

Sometimes time flies by. For example, when something stimulating happens all the time, as here with the new volume No. 8 of the complete recording of all 555 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. And not because of the two organ sonatas, which are actually played here on an organ, nor because of the acoustics at the new recording venue Marienmünster.

Once again, Christoph Ullrich is exclusively responsible for these stimuli, and he knows how to shape these gems, which seem to have been written for him, with such never-ending imagination, exuberant ideas, nuances that always seem spontaneous but are nevertheless carefully woven, that two hours go by like two shooting stars.

Symphony no. 8 in C major D 944

Concerto Budapest, András Keller

Hybrid-SACD (Gesamtspielzeit 57:08)

Order no.: 0249-4
Barcode: 40 09850 024941
TACET Real Surround Sound & stereo

A romantic horn melody from the distance is taken up by the woodwinds, continued by the cellos and violas, takes hold of the entire orchestra and leads into an exuberant, lively Allegro.
Seemingly so simple everything and yet highly complex. And also the interpretation seems effortless despite all finesses, hair-raising technical difficulties, despite all discussions about styles of interpretation. - Who cares? Without resistance we surrender to this flow of melodies, harmonies, coldness gives way to warmth, and willingly forget for an hour all struggle and cramp around us.