Mozart Clarinet Concerto : S.Manz, Gliere Harp Concerto : Ceysson, Korngold Violin Concerto : Hyeyoon Park

1st Prize Winners of the ARD Music Competition
Live-Recording from the Prize Winner Concerts 2008 & 2009, Munich, Herkulessaal der Residenz

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622
Sebastian Manz (Clarinet)
Cornelius Meister, conductor

Gliere: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E flat major Op. 74
Emmanuel Ceysson (Harp)
Lawrence Renes, conductor

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Hyeyoon Park (Violin)
Lawrence Renes, conductor

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Time and again, the ARD International Music Competition in Munich has been the site of concert performances that make us forget that the name of this game is scoring points with a jury and keeping mistakes down to a minimum. All of a sudden the idea of a competition departs from our minds, and we concentrate our full attention on the concert event, suddenly opening up to the adventure, audacity, spontaneity and the perfect musical moments. Three such highlights with first prize winners are combined on this CD. Sebastian Manz, first prize winner in 2008 played Mozart's Clarinet Concerto as originally composed, on the basset horn, accompanied by the young shooting star on the conducting horizon, Cornelius Meister. French harpist Emmanuel Ceysson enchanted the audience with the iridescent wealth of colour in the rarely performed Harp Concerto by Reinhold Gliere in September of 2009. And Hyeyoon Park, at 17 years of age the youngest finalist in the history of the Competition, revealed authentic prodigy qualities in a work overflowing with lush Hollywood charm, the Violin Concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.