Mozart With Friends: Nils Mönkemeyer
Nils Mönkemeyer featuring Sabine Meyer, Julia Fischer & William Youn
Awards:
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
The range of sounds [Mönkemeyer] draws from his instrument is never less than compelling, and is matched by Meyer’s mellifluous clarinet and Youn’s subtle touch…the Kegelstatt should be in every...
Mozart With Friends: Nils Mönkemeyer
Nils Mönkemeyer featuring Sabine Meyer, Julia Fischer & William Youn
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Awards:
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
The range of sounds [Mönkemeyer] draws from his instrument is never less than compelling, and is matched by Meyer’s mellifluous clarinet and Youn’s subtle touch…the Kegelstatt should be in every...
About
Inspired by the fact that Mozart had often composed for friends and fellow musicians to play with him in good company, ECHO Award winner Nils Mönkemeyer invited his own dear friends and top classical artists Sabine Meyer, Julia Fischer and William Youn to record some very special duos and trios by the composer.
The "Kegelstatt-Trio" is the perfect example for the motto of the album since Mozart wrote it while playing skittles with his friends. He later performed the trio, playing the viola. Besides that, Nils chose to explore the development of the famous composer, starting with pieces from "The London Sketchbook", which Mozart wrote when he was 8 or 9 years old, or the Sonata in F major for violine and piano (but recorded in a version for viola and piano), written by an 11-year-old Mozart.
The selected pieces from "The London Sketchbook", originally written for piano, were arranged and compiled by William Youn who is one of the leading Mozart interpreters of his generation.
Contents and tracklist
- Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), William Youn (piano)
- Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), William Youn (piano)
- Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), William Youn (piano)
- William Youn (piano)
- Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), William Youn (piano)
- Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), William Youn (piano)
- Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), William Youn (piano)
Awards and reviews
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ECHO Klassik Awards2017Winner
August 2016
The range of sounds [Mönkemeyer] draws from his instrument is never less than compelling, and is matched by Meyer’s mellifluous clarinet and Youn’s subtle touch…the Kegelstatt should be in every collection and this recording [is] as good as any…an hour and a quarter of pure Mozartian pleasure
