Works by L. van Beethoven, D. Schostakowitsch and A. Pärt

CD album cover 'Works by L. van Beethoven, D. Schostakowitsch and A. Pärt' (GEN 88115) with Nils Mönkemeyer ...

GEN 88115 EAN: 4260036251159

28.3.2008 Special offer
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It says a great deal about two young artists when they entitle their first CD together “Farewell and New Beginning.” What Nils Mönkemeyer and Nicholas Rimmer present to their listeners on their GENUIN debut CD is not a fast-food product. As prize winners of the German Music Competition, they show that they have fully consummated their farewell from student life; the listener is fortunate to be able to follow them at the outset of their professional careers with this CD. Ludwig van Beethoven’s own adaptation of his feather-light, zestful Serenade, Op. 8, Arvo Pärt’s meditative “Fratres” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s opus ultimum, the Viola Sonata, Op. 149 - all three works offer both musicians limitless possibilities of lending expression to their profound musicality and putting it into a nutshell. They show that they do not forget the present, for all this emphasis on the past and the future, letting it shine through most beautifully.

"Two remarkable interpreters from whom we shall be hearing more in the future."
(Leipziger Volkszeitung, 11. Juli 2008)

Nils Mönkemeyer Viola
Nicholas Rimmer Piano

It says a great deal about two young artists when they entitle their first CD together “Farewell and New Beginning.” What Nils Mönkemeyer and Nicholas Rimmer present to their listeners on their GENUIN debut CD is not a fast-food product. As prize winners of the German Music Competition, they show that they have fully consummated their farewell from student life; the listener is fortunate to be able to follow them at the outset of their professional careers with this CD. Ludwig van Beethoven’s own adaptation of his feather-light, zestful Serenade, Op. 8, Arvo Pärt’s meditative “Fratres” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s opus ultimum, the Viola Sonata, Op. 149 - all three works offer both musicians limitless possibilities of lending expression to their profound musicality and putting it into a nutshell. They show that they do not forget the present, for all this emphasis on the past and the future, letting it shine through most beautifully.

"Two remarkable interpreters from whom we shall be hearing more in the future."
(Leipziger Volkszeitung, 11. Juli 2008)

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Tracklist

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven
    Notturno D major, Op. 42
    Marcia, Allegro
  2. Adagio
  3. Minuetto. Allegretto – Trio
  4. Adagio – Scherzo. Allegro molto – Adagio – Allegro molto – Adagio
  5. Allegretto alla Polacca
  6. Theme and Variations
  7. Arvo Pärt (*1935)
    Fratres
  8. Dmitri Shostakovich
    Sonata, Op. 147
    Moderato
  9. Allegretto
  10. Adagio

It says a great deal about two young artists when they entitle their first CD together “Farewell and New Beginning.” What Nils Mönkemeyer and Nicholas Rimmer present to their listeners on their GENUIN debut CD is not a fast-food product. As prize winners of the German Music Competition, they show that they have fully consummated their farewell from student life; the listener is fortunate to be able to follow them at the outset of their professional careers with this CD. Ludwig van Beethoven’s own adaptation of his feather-light, zestful Serenade, Op. 8, Arvo Pärt’s meditative “Fratres” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s opus ultimum, the Viola Sonata, Op. 149 - all three works offer both musicians limitless possibilities of lending expression to their profound musicality and putting it into a nutshell. They show that they do not forget the present, for all this emphasis on the past and the future, letting it shine through most beautifully.

"Two remarkable interpreters from whom we shall be hearing more in the future."
(Leipziger Volkszeitung, 11. Juli 2008)