Diminutions Maximilian Ehrhardt

• Bernhard Lang (b. 1957):
• 1 GAME 10-4-1 Diminuendo 08:34
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643):
• 2 Ancidetemi pur d’Archadelt passagiato 06:04
• Kate Moore (b. 1979):
• 3 Susanna’s lament 04:53
• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (1555 - 1635):
• 4 Susana 05:25
• Malte Giesen (b. 1988):
• 5 Neural Variations 06:02
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621):
• 6 Est-ce Mars 05:24
• Chikage Imai (b. 1979):
• 7 Bucolic 07:06
• Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584 - 1654):
• 8 Gaybergier de Toma Crequilion 04:56
• Ian Wilson (b. 1964):
• 9 A distant relation 03:44
• Peter Philips (1560 - 1628):
• 10 Amarilli di Julio Romano 03:32
• Natalia Domínguez Rangel (b. 1981):
• 11 Il Matto 05:45
• Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575 - 1647):
• 12 Io mi son giovinetto 05:49
• Total Runtime 01:07:14

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Vermutlich in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts wurde in Italien eine Form der Harfe entwickelt, die es den Spielern und Spielerinnen ermöglichen sollte, den wachsenden musikalischen Anforderungen der Zeit gerecht zu werden. Durch das Hinzufügen einer oder zweier paralleler Saitenreihen entstand die “Arpa Doppia” - eine Doppelharfe -, die in historischen Quellen unter diesem Namen auftaucht. Dieses Instrument fand in Claudio Monteverdis Oper “L’Orfeo” (1607) prominente Verwendung, als Orpheus den Fährmann Charon in der Unterwelt anfleht, ihn zum Herrscher des Totenreichs zu bringen, um seine geliebte Eurydike zuretten. Doch abgesehen von diesem berühmten Ritornell sind aus dem 17. Jahrhundert nur wenige Kompositionen speziell für diesen Typus der Harfe überliefert. Die “Arpa Doppia” wird zwar in einigen Vokalsammlungen jener Zeit als Begleitinstrument aufgelistet, jedoch existieren, abgesehen von einigen originalen Solowerken der neapolitanischen Komponisten Ascanio Mayone (1570-1627), Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647) und Gregorio Strozzi (1615-1687), insgesamt weniger als zehn Stücke speziell für dieses Instrument.

Maximilian Ehrhardt, Harfe (Claus Hüttel, Düren, 2007)

Maximilian Ehrhardt
was born in Tettnang (Germany). After preliminary education as a young talent at the Landeskonservatorium für Vorarlberg (Austria) and the Konservatorium der Stadt Zürich, he studied the harp with Erika Waardenburg at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, from where he graduated in 2009 with the Master’s Degree with distinctions. In 2008 he started simultaneously his studies of historical harps with Mara Galassi at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica di Milano, graduating with the Master’s Degree in 2015, again with the highest marks. In 2013 he won the audition to perform the harp solo in Monteverdi’s ‘Orfeo’ during the 20th European Baroque Academy of Ambronay, which was followed by an international tour.

Maximilian is regularly performing in solo recitals, theatre productions, baroque orchestras and chamber music ensembles all over Europe. He has worked with ensembles such as the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Gürzenich-Orchester of the Cologne Opera, the orchestra of the Fynske Opera (Denmark), the orchestra of the opera in Wuppertal, the Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik (Düsseldorf opera), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Lautten Compagney, Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Les Talens Lyriques, I Fagiolini and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur. His performances include collaborations with Sylvain Cambreling, Reinbert de Leeuw, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Glen Wilson, Christophe Rousset and Leonardo García Alarcón. Maximilian has played concerts in the Early Music Festivals of Berlin, Utrecht, Ambronay, Namur, the Festival della Valle d’Itria, the Schützfest in Gera, Wratislavia Cantans, as well as the MITO Settembre Musica Festival in Milan.

He is a founding member of the ensemble L’Aura Rilucente, with whom he has performed internationally, including concerts during the International Young Artist Presentation in Antwerp, the Fringe Festival of the Festival Oude Muziek (Utrecht), the Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro (Spain), the REMA showcase in Marseille, the Festival Claudio Monteverdi in Cremona, the Festival of Ambronay and the Early Music Festival in Bucharest. The group has been named the winner of the prestigious young artist residencies of Ambronay 2013 and published their first CD with the Ambronay label in 2015 which was awarded with the ffff label by Télérama.

Maximilian has recorded many CDs and was nominated for the International Classic Music Award and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for his duo CD Viola Appassionata (2017). He has performed live on Radio Rai3, Radio Klara, Concertzender Nederland, Polish National Radio, Bayerischer Rundfunk and France Musique.

A keen researcher on the ‘forgotten’ repertoire of the harp, he is preparing an edition of unpublished manuscripts from the 18th century.

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