Max Volbers’ concert in February (January 2025)
In fall 2024, Max Volbers released his new album “Foreign Masters” with harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen on Berlin Classics. Max Volbers appeared on ZDF TV morning show with his new album – you can watch his performance with von Heißen here. At the beginning of January 2025, the album was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award in the Early Music category. In 2023, Max Volber’s debut CD “Whispers of Tradition” was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK 2023 in the category Young Artist of the Year.
“Foreign Masters is a kaleidoscope of music by composers who came to London from abroad or whose music was enthusiastically played there. Immigration back then gave rise to an incredibly diverse musical heritage. London was a cultural capital of Europe whose extraordinary musical life would have been unthinkable without the artists from abroad and their lively exchange,” says Max Volbers about “Foreign Masters”.
Volbers and von Heißen presented the program of the CD in December in the Essen Philharmonie and on New Year’s Day in Weikersheim. Max Volbers’ concert on Christmas Day with Concerto Köln at Cologne Philharmonie was also a big success. Other highlights in 2024 were Max Volbers’ concerts with Il Pomo d’Oro in Antwerp and La Chaux-de-Fonds. In February 2025, he will play a concert with the Hamburg Camerata at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and with the Kore Orchestra in Warsaw.
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nations come together in London and a wide variety of languages are spoken on the streets. At the same time, London is also the cultural capital of Europe with a rich and lively music scene. In the evenings, people come together at the opera, in the concert halls, but also in the many private salons and theatres. You can hear new music by George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giuseppe Matteo Alberti. These cultural highlights were widely reported in the first daily newspapers of the time, which did not go unnoticed abroad and attracted even more musicians and composers to London. For this is the story of the foreign masters. London was then, as it is today, a melting pot of the European cultural scene. Anyone who thought highly of themselves, or who – to put it bluntly: wanted to earn money – went to London and presented their music there.