Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra: Musica Vitae - Fanny & Felix
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SKU: NX.DBCD191

By Malin Broman, Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra, and Simon Crawford-Phillips. By Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn and Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Classical, Romantic Era. Classical. Listening CD. DB Productions #DBCD191. Published by dB Productions (NX.DBCD191).

The Swedish award-winning string orchestra, Musica Vitae, directed by violinist Malin Broman and accompanied by pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips, is showcased here in a sparkling performance of Felix Mendelssohn's challenging Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra. The concerto is coupled with Felix's sister, Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn's, String Quartet, here for the first time recorded in an arrangement for string orchestra. As a bonus, Malin and Simon also perform four songs by Fanny, arranged for viola and piano. Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra is the ensemble that brings live music - indeed the music of life - to each and every individual member of the audience. The vast realm that is art music is handled with the utmost precision and elegance by its 15 string players. The repertoire consists of baroque and romantic as well as modernist and contemporary music from a wide variety of genres. Musica Vitae appear on stages big and small in Sweden and abroad. Internationally, the orchestra has been warmly greeted in China, the United States, Greece, Switzerland, Germany and Spain to name but a few countries.

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