hip, trash & hop - Recycling Symphony for percussion and orchestra emotionalises and reflects in five movements the unstoppable destruction of our planet: industrialisation with the overproduction of consumer goods is damaging nature, the forest, the sea, the climate... and we only have this one planet "Earth"! The daring combination of time criticism, deadly seriousness with elements of the sometimes entertainingly virtuoso elements of "music first" leads to the finale "Friday for Future", in which youthful anger erupts in the face of the powerlessness of the individual in a mass society: NO FUTURE, the slogan of the punk generation has become truth. Currently, 150 million tonnes of plastic end up in the sea every year, in Germany alone (according to NDR) 2.8 billion tonnes of plastic are consumed every year, in one square kilometre of ocean there are 46,000 pieces of plastic floating.... The work was commissioned by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra for the exceptional percussionist Alexej Gerassimez in the summer of 2022 and combines the sound world of classical percussion with materials from the rubbish dump, from plastic, from rubbish & rubbish. The ex & hop society is musically counteracted not only by the tonal language of new music, but also by borrowings from hiphop and punk.

The saxophone quartet CLAIR-OBSCUR located in Berlin in forms of orchestral music and chamber music....with special guest English horn-soloist Dominik Wollenweber (Berlin Philharmonics). Surely the highlight BERLIN PUNK for 4 Saxes and large symphony orchestra... but not less impressive CRI MUET, a protest music against terrorism Paris 2015.... and two works of chamber music with historical dimensions: a homage à J.S.Bach and a homage to the renaissance composer Don Luis Milan. Recorded with Siberian State Symphony Orchestra / conductor: Vladimir Lande in Krasnoyarsk (July 2018)as well as in Andreaskirche Berlin (September 2018)

In western music history the saxophone is one oft he youngest instruments and very intercultural: originally invented by Adolphe Sax in classical music it is leading to Jazz, Rock, HipHop, it connects us with all modern styles of music worldwide... and it is leading directly to an exciting future: a lot of works for saxophone are still waiting to be invented! – On this CD the saxophones sound „very classical“.... a speciality oft he outstanding ARCIS QUARTET