Tribute to The Beatles

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