Andrea Ritter: Echoing Voices

Label: ARS Productions
Catalog: ARS38098
Format: SACD / CD Hybrid

Andrea Ritter, recorder; Daniel Koschitzki, piano

Olafur Arnalds (*1987): Intro, Eulogy for Evolution (2007) - Chiel Meijering (*1954): Please tell me more (2007), Überhappy (1999) - Thoma Simaku (*1958): Sea Images (2000) - Fulvio
Caldini (*1959): Novelletta (1986), Disco Rondo (2007) - Johannes Motschmann (*1978): Echoing Voices (2011), Resonance (2011) - Graham Fitkin (*1963): Gate (2001) - Hans Ulrich Staeps (1909-1988): Immortelle (1988) - Lev Ljova Zhurbin (*1978) Sicilienne (2000) - Meredith Monk (*1942): Window in 7's (1986) - Michael Nyman (*1944): If (1995)

Insiders of the classical music scene surely need no introduction to Andrea Ritter, one of the creative minds behind the classical band Spark (ARS 38084) which won this year's German ECHO Classic prize in the category "Classic without Borders". Ritter was a member of the world-famous Loeki Stardust Quartet in Amsterdam from 2004 to 2007 and made a name for herself with concerts in renowned locations across Europe, the USA and Asia. Her breakthrough as a soloist came with the award of first prize at the International Recorder Competition in Montreal in 2007. Ritter has distinguished herself in her desire for new sounds well off the beaten track and her continuous search or innovative forms of expression, and is considered today as one of the leading recorder players of her generation worldwide.
Ritter makes her solo recording debut with her conceptual album Echoing Voices, displaying her keen sensitivity to cutting edge contemporary music and the fresh breeze of a new generation. She combines works by an illustrious crowd of European and American composers including Michael Nyman, Fulvio Caldini, Chiel Meijering, Meredith Monk and Thoma Simaku to produce an intoxicating kaleidoscope of sound colour. Minimal Music becomes the leitmotiv of her recording; avant-garde timbres, moments from film music, driving rhythms and melancholic melodies are all combined in a celebration of that so familiar and yet unknown instrument: the recorder.

Price: $28.98