Rudens Turku Festival Ensemble - Dvorak / Spohr / Kerschek: Chamber Works

While he was still a student, Rudens Turku established the Starnberg Music Days. Over the past twenty years this renowned festival south of Munich featuring an attractivecombination of master classes and top quality concerts has become a highlight of the musical spring season.To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Turku has broughttogether an illustrious company of teachers and soloists for an ambitious project: chamber music on the large scale and with musicians numbering among the best in their fields.The Nonet by Louis Spohr is performed here by nine outstanding chamber musicians; the violin part is of daredevil virtuosity � which is no problem for Rudens Turku. Ulf-GuidoSchafer arranged Antonin Dvorak�s uncommonly popular 'American Suite' especially for this occasion. It is astonishing how a mere eight musicians can and do make Dvo 345;�k�s orchestral colours shine.Turku, a native of Albania shares his solo part with the star trumpeter Matthias Hofs in Wolf Kerschek�s �Festival Rhapsody�, a genuinely festive arrangement by withinfluences from Star Wars to Stravinsky.Recorded on SACD in surround sound, it offers a magnificent virtual space which unfolds in a genuine three dimensions, even in the smallest living room. Filled with splendid music, spatial bounds seem to vanish.