Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 20713
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Max Emanuel Cencic; Mariselle Martinez; Matthias Rexroth; Netta Or; Mirko Roschkowski; Andreas Post
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik/Andreas Stoehr; Live recording
A very little known opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck – written prior to his revolutionary works which led to stirring discussions with the traditionalists in Paris around 1770. Yet in Ezio already, first performed in Prague in 1750, early indications of Gluck’s new dramatic art are recognizable: the characters appear more three-dimensional and conceivable than was customary in the baroque opera; music and plot are closer interlinked. The Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik has become renowned for its authentic interpretation of 18th century music – in collaboration with Andreas Stoehr and an ensemble of declared specialist singers like the countertenors Max Emanuel Cencic and Matthias Rexroth, this new recording enables listeners to rediscover Gluck’s very nearly forgotten treasure of early classical opera. (3 CDs)

Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60609
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“The Five Gates of Fear”
Radio Choir Berlin
“musikFabik”
Simon Halsey, direction
Live Recording of the World Premier Concert January 2006
"A journey to the inside of fear" is how Christian Jost described his recently premiered choral opera. Where does fear come from? What are its motives? What are the fears of our time? Mountain accidents, childhood trauma and neurochemical processes are all dealt with on this journey. “Fear” isn't a classical story opera. Individual thoughts emerge and then disappear into the whole; individual characters aren't the emphasis of the work, but instead the collective of the Berlin Radio Choir provides the musical and continual driving force. The opera has five section, or „gates“, each of which views the phenomenon from a different perspective, using varying methods. This recording from the Berlin Ultrasound Festival, conducted by Simon Halsey breaks new ground in choral music, both musically and dramatically.

Label: COVIELLO CLASSICS 60716
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CocoonSymphonie (Five Gateways of a Journey into the Interior); Astralis – one small step…; The End of the Game
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker/Gabriel Feltz
Christian Jost, born in Trier in 1963, studied from 1983 to 1989 composition, analysis and conducting in Cologne and San Francisco. He has been awarded several grants, including from the Stiftung Kulturfonds des Deutschen Volkes (Cultural Foundation of the German People) and the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein Westfalen (Arts and Cultural Foundation of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia). In 1992 Jost attracted attention for the first time with “Magma“, a work commissioned by the orchestra of the State theatre in Darmstadt. During the 1999-2000 season Christian Jost was the first Composer in Residence of the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, for whose orchestra he composed “The End of Game”. In May 2003 Christian Jost received one of the renowned prices by the Ernst von Siemens Stifung and in 2003/04, he is composer in residence of the Staatskapelle Weimar which premiered his “CocoonSymphonie” in December 2003.