Margit-Anna Süss: La Harpe a Paris – Harp Concertos

Paris – the city of so many dreams and promises – has its own special ring in the ears of harpists. In hardly any other place in the world has the harp been played so much, had so many compositions written for it and been so popular. It is no coincidence that all the great works for harp on this CD were written in Paris – for that is its home town. Margit-Anna Süss has a busy international career as a soloist, chamber musician and a teacher. A new recording of Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane for harp and strings, in which she was closely involved, is about to be released by G. Henle Verlag in autumn 2022. An innovation is that her arrangement of the harp part returns to the original score for the first time. Karl-Heinz Schütz is Solo Flute of Wiener Philharmoniker and in the same position at the Wiener Staatsoper, having held the same position with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker for four years, and with the Wiener Symphoniker from 2005 to 2011. For more than five decades, the Berliner Symphoniker has been an integral part of Berlin’s musical and cultural life, and has enriched the German orchestra landscape. Alongside his career as a soloist, he has also, for many years, been much in demand all over the world as a conductor. From 2012 to 2022 he was chief conductor of the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra and is currently chief conductor of the Berlin Symphonic. He is also a guest conductor with the Camerata Salzburg, the Spanish national orchestra, the Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern and other world-class orchestras. In May 2022, he was on the podium with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at its truly historic concert in Dubai. In 2018, Professor Hansjörg Schellenberger received the prestigious Verdienstkreuz am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.