Brilliant Youth

All students? Unbelievable but true! The German Philharmonic Strings, the top orchestra of German music schools and a national treasure for almost thirty years, plays with a musicality and at a technical standard that one only rarely encounters even with professionals. The ensemble’s soloists bring Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile and Hindemith’s Mourning Music to life and imbue them with breath, with the main work on the album, Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite, providing first-class orchestral fireworks in which one doesn’t miss wind players or singers for a moment! This new GENUIN album belongs on every opera lover’s shelf and on every chamber orchestra fan’s as well. And on every violin lover’s, and viola fan’s, and cello enthusiast’s, and double bass … Right, actually on everybody’s shelf!