The Swedish award-winning string orchestra, Musica Vitae, directed by violinist Malin Broman and accompanied by pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips, is showcased here in a sparkling performance of Felix Mendelssohn's challenging Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra. The concerto is coupled with Felix's sister, Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn's, String Quartet, here for the first time recorded in an arrangement for string orchestra. As a bonus, Malin and Simon also perform four songs by Fanny, arranged for viola and piano. Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra is the ensemble that brings live music - indeed the music of life - to each and every individual member of the audience. The vast realm that is art music is handled with the utmost precision and elegance by it's 15 string players. The repertoire consists of baroque and romantic as well as modernist and contemporary music from a wide variety of genres. Musica Vitae appear on stages big and small in Sweden and abroad. Internationally, the orchestra has been warmly greeted in China, the United States, Greece, Switzerland, Germany and Spain to name but a few countries.

Tracklist:

Double Concerto In D Minor, Mwv O 4: I. Allegro
Double Concerto In D Minor, Mwv O 4: II. Adagio
Double Concerto In D Minor, Mwv O 4: III. Allegro Molto
Dämmrung Senkte Sich Von Oben, H-U 392
Im Herbst, H-U 407
Harfners Lied, H-U 162
Traurige Wege, H-U 380
String Quartet In E-Flat Major, H-U 277: I. Adagio Ma Non Troppo
String Quartet In E-Flat Major, H-U 277: II. Allegretto
String Quartet In E-Flat Major, H-U 277: III. Romanze
String Quartet In E-Flat Major, H-U 277: IV. Allegro Molto Vivace

UPC: 7393787191911
Label: Db Productions
Release Date: 9.6.19
Format: CD

Mendelssohn / Broman / Musica Vitae Chamber Orch - Musica Vitae (CD)