<p>Spanish horn player Adrin Daz Martnez presents his debut CD, AVANTGARDE, comprising rarely recorded original compositions from the 20th century for horn and piano. The 2017 winner of the renowned Italian wind competition "Citt di Porcia" developed the idea together with his pianist Ikuko Odai. <p>The CD includes the first ever recording of the divine Bagatelle for Horn and Piano by Hermann Neuling, who for a long time worked as a low horn player at the State Opera in Berlin, and the colourful Elegie for Horn and Piano, FP 168 by Francis Poulenc, which the latter dedicated to the English horn player Dennis Brain, who tragically died in a car accident after a concert at the age of 36. <p>Adrin Daz Martnez also shows how extensive the horn's expressive possibilities are with his interpretation of the Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 101 by York Bowen, and the Variations for Horn and Piano, Op. 59.3 by Jan Koetsier, who devoted himself intensively throughout his life to compositions for wind instruments. <p>The Belgian composer and music teacher Jane Vignery left only a few works to posterity. She is represented on this CD with her Sonata for Horn and Piano, Op. 7. <p>Adrin Daz Martnez has performed with many famous orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Simon Rattle, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph Eschenbach, Danielle Gatti and David Afkham. Adrin has also made guest appearances at prestigious music festivals such as the Zermatt Music Festival in Switzerland, the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival and the Capella Andrea Barca where he worked with artists such as Andrs Schiff, Stefan Schweigert, Veronika Eberle and Nils Mnkemeyer.
