2018 started with NEOS-CD“ FLUTE NEWS“ and the composition RA for 10 flutes, followed by the WERGO-CD „MAGIC OF IRREALITY“ with two double concertos ISOLDE & TRISTAN (Jiemin Yan/Erhu and Wen-Sinn Yang/Violoncello) combined with DREAMDANCERS (for two trumpets Sergei Nakariakov and Otto Sauter)….
Then 2018 closed with three new CDs: In September released at the Label ‚ambiente audio‘ SANCTA TRINITAS, - a large oratorio for soprano, bariton, choir band orchestra: with exciting combinations of mediaeval and modern texts unknown facets of the Holy Trinity are interpreted….culminating in a fire apotheosis of the Holy Spirit. This is a very personal credo, because the Holy Spirit is not a religious-thoretical thesis, but the building material of the universe. The Holy Spirit is the energy field „Chi“ of asiatic primeval knowledge, it ist he „aether“ in greec philosophy and it is the quantum field of modern physics…. Modern physics was able to prove that „all is connected!”… all protons and electrons are related…. Holy Spirit and „Chi“ are the real manifestation of eternal love….. In November was released a small but fine CD „FARBE & MUSIK“ (Colors & Music) round about the Renaissance-Painter Lucas Cranach. And finally in December followed the latest CD „CLAIR-OBSCUR. COLORS OF SAXOPHONES“ recorded with the really astonishing saxophone quartet from Berlin >clair – obscur< and the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Lande. Besides two chambermusic works (guest solist: Dominik Wollenweber, english horn) this CD present two symphonic highlights: CRI MUET as a further thinking of Beethovens IXth symphony and a memorial against terrorism as the Paris attacks in 2015. And in five movement we can listen to BERLIN PUNK as a crazy transformation of punk music to the symphonic context. Two silent and poetic movements in the middle can touch with a tender compassion for the victims of drug addiction… living lonesome in the streets.
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New CD: KRASNOYARSK COUNTERPOINTS
With Label WERGO (Distribution: NAXOS) released in february 2020: two freshly composed Concertos, - the one with Reinhold Friedrich, who is playing extraordinary with three types of trumpets in the same composition, - the other with an usual combination of instruments in a double concerto. Artem Chirkov (Soloist of St. Peterburg Philharmony) plays his double bass from low to the highest violin-like ranges....And Mikhail Dzyudze, a multitalent beetween Folk, Rock & Classic, plays on his Contrabass-Balalaika... a gigantic and really unknown instrument.
Mai 2020: INSIDE THE WORLD - MUSIK NACH INNEN
Just for my 70th anniversary released at Label ambiente audio: INSIDE THE WORLD - MUSIK NACH INNEN with some Highlights from the CD-series "Enjott Schneider - Sacred Music"
COMPOSING AGAINST... AND DESPITE THE CORONA-VIRUS
Two "Corona works" were created around the virus, rehearsed via online rehearsals, and soon - finally - played live in the concert hall: For Beijing Symphony Orchestra in China the composition WUHAN 2020 SYMPHONIC POEM FOR ORCHESTRA, and for the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Katovice/Poland a work "IN MEMORIAM PENDERECKI": MAZURKA TRISTE.
POLAND, INDIA, KOSOVO, HAMBURG & ROME: The Days "before" COVID19
POLAND, INDIA, KOSOVO, HAMBURG & ROME: The Days "before" COVID. With world premieres, CD-productions and new compositions.
European premiere: OPER "MARCO POLO" in Milan and Genova
From September 22 to October 1, the European premiere of my opera "MARCO POLO", composed in Chinese and commissioned by the Chinese government, took place in Milano and Genova (Italy). After the three productions in China this European tour was now a successful test.
