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The CD „Brazilian Fantasy“ with works exclusively from Ney Rosauro was recorded by Roland Härdtner together with the worldwide renowned composer and the SWDKO as a portrait of the composer. All recordings are first recordings, which document the special musical friendship, that connects the two soloists since many years.
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The cooperation as a duo so far of Roland Härdtner and Boris Ritter is topped off by the programme “Piano Mallets”. The matured, almost blind musical understanding of this two exceptional musicians leads to 15 excitingly arranged cross-over titles, which bear some surprises.
With his CD Virtuos Mallets Roland Härdtner would like to show how beautiful, emotionally touching and many-faceted so-called ‚modern music‘ can sound. This is the first recording of the works by Philip Glass worldwide in an arrangement for the mallets.. Ney Rosauro on this recording of his concert: „... One of the best performances from my concerto...
Attention! The CD Classic Mallets has two different layouts (see the pictures). The contents of music and booklet are identical. The CD has a concert-recording from the "Süddeutschen Rundfunks Stuttgart" in a co-produktion with Theater Pforzheim. Classic Mallets is published also at the Label Virgin Classics by EMI Records.
Johann Sebastian Bach has a strong emanation in every instrumentation, based on his polyphonic worked-throug movement and his consistent alignment. Therefore it can be expected, that the „Klangrede of Bach“ can be noticed again and unexpected also in this instrumentation. The CD Badinerie want to offer other aspects of listening to Bach's music to „nosy...
The selection of pieces, all re-worked solely by Härdtner, represent an overview of Mozart's works,ranging from a piano sonata to a string serenade and from various concertos up to a symphony, a sacred motet, arias, duetts, and an opera overture. Therefore the transcrption to the mallet instruments is carried out in many different ways.
The title is the programme itself: devilish virtuosic play for mallet instruments and orchestra. A new listening experience emerges, well-known melodies sound from the vibraphone, marimba, xylophone or the orchestral bells, imitate the tone of the human voice or of an orchestra instrument or create by their special sound an appealing contrast to what we...
Claude Bolling, the „father of french jazz“ writes about this recording:This fabolous recording is a further proof, that Johann Sebastian Bach is really a pioneer of swing music! „Bach in Swing“ bubbles under the sticks and the mallet instruments of Roland Härdtner. This great classical compositions achieve such a dimension and vitality that their...
After a lot of successful concerts, the idea of a common CD Percussion Mallets with music „between the cultures“ developed. The CD, originally planned as a duo-project, had now 16 musicians participating in it. They conjured a result, which encourages to dancing, dreaming, enjoyment and especially to drum by yourself.
Roland Härdtner recorded for the CD Solo Mallets original compostitions and Bach interpretations for marimba and vibraphone, which where part of his musical studies at the Robert-Schumann-Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf. Solo Mallets is a mainly quiet, meditative recording, which focuses solely on the unique tone of the marimba and the vibraphone.
The approach of the CD Mallets for Kids is to show to children the faszination of music in a playful mannor with different means. We wish all children, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfather, as well as the young and the young at heart listeners a lot of fun while listening to this CD.
