Baroque Music in the 21st Century (CD, Winter and Winter)

15 years ago, in 1997, Winter&Winter issued their first production with Bach’s solo cello suites. Producer Stefan Winter and Paolo Beschi developed this sound project in Beschi’s house at Lake Como in order that the performance for a concert audience took place with different rules than for the creation of a recording. This record is intended for the attentive and curious listener. As a result Winter&Winter have produced 200 new productions since. It might be expected that jazz would be the mainstay of Winter&Winter and therefore it might seem surprising that baroque music is a focal point in the label’s works, however, Stefan Winter’s roots lie in the area of early music. In his youth he visited the music boarding school St. Gotthard in Niederaltaich. Dr. Konrad Ruhland teaches there. In the ’60s and ’70s Ruhland, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and other great artists developed the historical performance practice of renaissance and baroque music. Winter experienced the music of the Leonhardt Consort and the Concentus Musicus Wien with Il Giardino Armonico, founded in 1985, belonging to the next generation after Harnoncourt and Beschi being a founding member.