Tribute to A.Winehouse

'Tribute to A.Winehouse' is part of the project 'Ode an die Popmusik' - which is the result of many different events:

First and foremost is my admiration for Alfred Schnittke. In particular, I was fascinated by his collaboration with Lev Atamanov, among others for 'The Ballerina on the Boat'.
This gave rise to the idea of persuading my longtime friend Andreas Metzler to create drawn videos for some of my compositions.

Thanks to Martin Frieß, who has been supporting me with angelic patience for many instrument-specific questions and problems for several years, I was able to win really great musicians (mainly from the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg ) for the recording-session.

The pieces were created for the season opening of the Sasel-Haus in Hamburg and were integrated into a kind of 'double concert', the first part of which has been Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' suite, arranged for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and double bass. 
Using the same instrumentation, 'Ode an die Popmusik' emerged as a cycle of contemporary re-compositions of well-known songs.

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