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This new album, based on a true story, is undoubtedly his most ambitious and adventurous album. Obsessed with his need to fuse classical compositions with a blend of traditional Celtic pop, either by subtle of ethnically derived melodies and rhythms.

The heir of time is an instrumental album consisting of twelve piano pieces played –as in the former albums – by the composer himself and his string quartet.
There is always that little touch of accordion, which stands out with a wink against the more classical aspect of his composition.

ICELAND is pretty different from previous albums. The female singer and the musicians are still the same on the new album but Bernard L’Hoir wanted to go further with them in the field of pop music by keeping an allusion to the sound of the sixties and seventies.

Although valued as an important aspect, for HORTUS MUSICUS authenticity in terms of music history has always been a means to an end, not a goal! Authenticity of this kind can be learned, and humbly approached. But if the hearts, heads and hands of the musicians are directed by self-knowledge and self-determination, the results will be different. For 28 years now, the Estonian Ensemble for Ancient Music has followed its vision of a unique manner of interpretation.

The meditative piano solo improvisations of Bernward Koch are creating an soft but suggestive magic.

The flair of this music is matching in various points the contemplative and deliberate pitch of Hermann Hesses compositions.

This DVD is dedicated to nature - nature in the form of the wind. Many well known artists have worked on the topic wind in all its´complex forms.

A visual and audibile journey through the world of winds!

Every morning Oskar Sala, born in 1910, walks to his small studio in Charlottenburg, Berlin where he composes. Here exists the only functioning Mixturtrautonium in the whole world, securely protected by an alarm system. At the beginning of the 1930s Sala made it his task to master and develop this unique instrument.