Renowned cellist Julius Berger is a great champion of modern music, and has performed and recorded many works written during the latter half of the 20th and early part of the 21st century. On this new CD he plays music for unaccompanied cello by three major contemporary German composers, Bertold Hummel, Hermann Regner, and Wilhelm Kilmayer, alongside pieces by the Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer, and the popular Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.

Born in Augsburg in 1954, Julius Berger became one of the youngest professors in Germany, when he was appointed to the Musikhochschule Wuerzburg at the age of 28. Starting in Wuerzburg, later in Saarbruecken and Mainz, and since 2000 in Augsburg, he has made it his mission to promote the careers of gifted young cellists. Over the years Julius Berger has devoted a great deal of his time as a performer and recording artist to the rediscovery of Luigi Boccherini’s complete works for cello. He has also recorded a complete edition of the works for cello and piano by Paul Hindemith, as well as the music of Ernst Bloch, Max Bruch, Richard Strauss, Robert Schumann and Edward Elgar.