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After the release of the Double Concerto for Violin & Piano by Mendelssohn in July 19, a second album is gong to be released  in early 2020: Mendelssohn's Sonotas for violin& piano .

Both CDs are distributerd by Universal/Decca Ital and are connected to corresponding concert and recital programs.

For 2020, Lombardi is focusing a quite broad spectrum of projects:
not only, that he will return to his work upon his new opera project  "ORA - Till the end of the land", the libretto of which is based upon a novel by Man Booker-Prize winner David Grossmann,

There are also several ideas for new commissions, among them an European theme, probably a text by late Nobel price winner Günter Grass, and probably a suite for piano.

Finally,  in view the climate change problem,  a plan to complement his compositions "Terra" and "Mare" by "Vento" and "Sole" to become a 'Symphony of Elements'.
 

Betty is looking forward to an exciting new commission with which she was charged for by Daniel Barenboim for the Berlin based Boulez Ensemble.

In our period of worldwide wars and struggles, Olivero's "Neharo't, Neharo't gets an increasing, but deeply sad importance and is currently often performed: 
With women in mourning, mothers, widows and sisters who had lost their loved ones, live recorded and woven into the composed music, Olivero gives the suffering of the victims in the battle zones of the world a moving voice.

On the contarry, another of her compositions, The shadow which brings dreams, dedicated to original writings of children who had been deported to Theresienstadt, is meant to be a message of  hope, since the children, even though surrounded by death and despair, speak in simple words upon hope and the beauty of the creation.

Among the many works she composed there's the successful original soundtrack for the German silent movie "Der Golem" commissioned by ART WORKs Berlin for Giora Feidman and the Arditti String Quartet.
After it's successful world premier in 1996, the music went around the world, accompanying the silent movie or as chamber music version for string orchestra: suites f. clarinet and string quartett or string orchestra.

   

       
 

In many aspects, the past year was quite spectacular for Günter:

After the successful world premier of his new sound track for the silent movie  "Die Stadt ohne Juden" (The city without Jews) in Seattle, Buchwald's new music for "CASANOVA", a French-Russian silent movie from 1927, has been premiered with overwhelming succes with the Freiburg Philharmonic orchestra conducted by Buchwald.

And the Cinémathèque Francaise, who has restored the film and helds the copyright,  will release a DVD of the film together with Buchwald's new sound track.

Finally, in November 2019, the German premier of  a chamber version of  Buchwald's music for "Express 300 Miles", a rare silent movie from Japan, took place in Berlin.

Since already further performances of Casanova are programmed for Pordenone,  Bristol, Venice and Paris and not few other film concerts with his music,  there's reason to believe that 2020 will not be less interesting for him...

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