Fascinated by Orchestral Sounds:
A new CD-recording with the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (cond.: Vladimir Lande) in Krasnoyarsk with the quartet CLAIR OBSCUR: - BERLIN PUNK for saxophone quartet & orchestra and CRI MUET (composed for the victims of terrorism in Paris 2015) were played in a sold out Philharmonic Concert on 30th of june... with live TV-transmission and with standing ovations. And also very emotional: Excursions in the monumental siberian landscapes as the River Jenissei with its 4000 kilometers or in the mountains with the famous Rock Pillars... one oft he most spirituel locations in Siberia.
In June and July two orchestral works were composed. 1) a concerto for Piccolo Trumpet and Orchestra, which will be First performed on 19th of october by Otto Sauter in Pirmasens/Germany: L’ANGELICA FARFALLA. DIAMONDS LOST IN THE DARKNESS OF PAST; ...and 2) "INNER WORLDS. Symphonic Mood Paintings" based on the Interludes of opera BAHNWÄRTER THIEL / TRACKMAN THIEL, which will be performed and recorded on CD in 2019 by Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Simon Gaudenz.... And freshly printed by publisher Strube-Verlag München: a concerto for Viola solo and Strings FATAL HARMONIES.... variations on a Madrigal of Renaissance Composer Gesualdo...
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New CD in summer 2020: ..............FLUTE STORIES
Recorded in january 2020 in Katowice/Poland and now released in summer 2020: FLUTE STORIES... about Water, Trees, and a Chinese Concubine... with Lukasz Dlugosz & Agata Kielar Dlugosz (flutes) Silesian Chamber Orchestra & Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Miroslaw Jacek Blaszczyk
Monography ENJOTT SCHNEIDER published as book by Allitera-Verlag
Im Juli 2020 neu erschienen: Die Buch-Monographie über ENJOTT SCHNEIDER (im Allitera-Verlag) aus der Reihe Komponisten in Bayern. Dokumente musikalischen Schaffens im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Band 66. Es ist ein spannendes Lesebuch über ein ganz und gar der Musik gewidmetes Leben geworden, - mit einem Fototeil.
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.
