Beaser, Shankar & Others Music for Flute & Guitar Christian Mattick & Thomas Etschmann

• Robert Beaser (b. 1954): Mountain Songs (Excerpts):
• 1 Beaser: Mountain Songs (Excerpts): No. 1, Barbara Allen 03:54
• 2 Beaser: Mountain Songs (Excerpts): No. 2, The House Carpenter 02:27
• 3 Beaser: Mountain Songs (Excerpts): No. 4, Hush You Bye 06:15
• 4 Beaser: Mountain Songs (Excerpts): No. 5, Cindy 02:58
• Ravi Shankar (1920 - 2012): L'aube enchantée sur le raga "Todi"
• 5 Shankar: L'aube enchantée sur le raga "Todi" 12:40
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959): Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W389:
• 6 Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W389: I. Ária 05:14
• Tōru Takemitsu (1930 - 1996): Toward the Sea:
• 7 Takemitsu: Toward the Sea: I. The Night 03:12
• 8 Takemitsu: Toward the Sea: II. Moby-Dick 04:00
• 9 Takemitsu: Toward the Sea: III. Cape Cod 03:36
• Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992): Histoire du tango:
• 10 Piazzolla: Histoire du tango: I. Bordel 1900 03:45
• 11 Piazzolla: Histoire du tango: II. Café 1930 06:59
• 12 Piazzolla: Histoire du tango: III. Nightclub 1960 06:32
• 13 Piazzolla: Histoire du tango: IV. Concert d'aujourd'hui 03:15
• Total Runtime 01:04:47

Info for Beaser, Shankar & Others Music for Flute & Guitar

The new GENUIN album by Christian Mattick (flute) and Thomas Etschmann (guitar) offers an exciting program that spans continents: the first-class duo made of two renowned Munich soloists engages America and Asia in dialogue. Tradition and modernity, meditation and spirited outbursts, delight in novelty and melancholy at the loss of tradition. The two musicians interpret works by Tōru Takemitsu, Ravi Shankar, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, and Robert Beaser with tremendous stylistic confidence and a wealth of color that makes one marvel at the possibilities of this unusual duo.

Christian Mattick, flute
Thomas Etschmann, guitar

Christian Mattick
studied in Munich with Paul Meisen as well as with Aurèle Nicolet and Philippe Boucly. He is a member of the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra and co-founder of the Ensemble Cassander – Music of the 20th Century Munich. He performs concerts throughout Europe in diff erent chamber music formations such as the Duo Mattick Huth, the Pegasus Trio, and the Ensemble Bach34.

His television appearances on ZDF, BR, and ARD and radio broadcasts for Bayerischer Rundfunk, SWR, Hessischer Rundfunk, and Radio Bremen are supplemented by numerous CD productions. He received the Children to Olympus award of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States, the Music Advancement Award of the City of Munich, and the Inventio Award of the German Music Council.

In addition to his solo career, Mattick was joined by other Munich musicians in launching the Music You Can Touch initiative, which introduces children and young people to an active musical life in a non-dogmatic way.

Thomas Etschmann
studied guitar with Eliot Fisk at the Mozarteum Salzburg. In addition to classical music, he is also interested in jazz (touring with Mal Waldron, among other artists) and early music. He is a multiple winner of international competitions, including those of Radio France in Paris, Seto Ohashi in Japan, and Mauro Giuliani in Italy.

He has made a name for himself in the professional world through his interpretations of contemporary guitar music as well as his crossing musical boundaries between folk, jazz, and classical music. He took part in the Munich Biennale under the direction of Hans Werner Henze and has repeatedly been invited as a soloist on concert tours as far as Japan.

In addition to his career as a performer, he always finds time for his own compositions, which include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, and film music. His compositions have been published by Gendai in Japan and Akustik Gitarre in Germany, among others. He performs in the Munich Guitar Trio, for which he also composes, as well as in different orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.

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