Boieldieu / Suss / Schutz

La Harpe a Paris Boieldieu / Suss / Schutz

Paris - the city of so many dreams and promises - has it's 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 album were written in Paris - for that is it's home town. Margit-Anna Süss has a busy international career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Karl-Heinz Schütz is Solo Flute of Wiener Philharmoniker and therefor in the same position at the Wiener Staatsoper, having held the same position with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker or four years, and with the Wiener Symphoniker from 2005 to 2011. For more than five decades, the Berliner Symphoniker have been an integral part of Berlin's musical and cultural life and enrich 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 it's truly historic concert in Dubai. In 2018 Professor Hansjörg Schellenberger received the prestigious Verdienstkreuz am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.