New CD by Max Volbers: Foreign Masters on Berlin Classics (September 2024)

“The album ‘Foreign Masters’ by recorder player Max Volbers and harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen could also be compared to an exciting historical novel. The story takes place in bustling 18th century London. Even then, it was one of the largest cities in the world, a centre of trade, a place of nobility and the rich, but also of the hard-working and underpaid population. People from many up-and-coming industrialised 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.READ MORE

Max Volbers: Second Single Release of “Foreign Masters” (August 2024)

Recorder player Max Volbers released at the end of July his second single from his new album “Foreign Masters”: Barsanti: The lass of Peatie’s Mill,
recorded by Max Volbers (recorder) and Alexander von Heißen (harpsichord) is available on all digital music platforms.

The album “Foreign Masters” will be released in September on Berlin Classics.

Link to all released singles

Francesco Barsanti came to London as a young man in 1714 and travelled on to Scotland in 1735. There he fell in love with both a Scottish woman and with the Scottish tunes. Inspired by this, he published a whole ‘Collection of Old Scots Tunes’, adding his own basso continuo to the melodic lines. “The lass of Patie’s mill” is a beautiful, simple tune and was incredibly popular. Unfortunately, the original lyrics have not survived. – Max Volbers

Max Volber’s new CD “Scenes of Horror” (February 2024)

In 2023, Max Volbers was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK 2023 in the Young Artist of the Year category for his debut CD “Whispers of Tradition”.

“For the concerto and consort pieces, Volbers invited like-minded colleagues, and solo he delivers circus-ready virtuoso artistry. The joyful way his legato playing in the Purcell Variations transforms into glissando, with all the intermediate stages, is the height of mastery.” – Eleonore Büning (RONDO)

On February 9, his next CD “Scenes of Horror” will be released on the Perfect Noise label with soprano Laila Salome Fischer and the ensemble Il Giratempo under Max Volbers’ direction.

Find out more about the CD “Whispers of Tradition” on GENUIN in the following video:

Max Volbers is awarded with the OPUS KLASSIK in the category “Young Artist of the Year” (June 2023)

Congratulations! Max Volbers is awarded with the OPUS KLASSIK in the category “Young Artist of the Year” for his debut CD “Whispers of Tradition”.

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The young recorder player and allround musician Max Volbers (March 2023)

The young recorder player and allround musician Max Volbers will be playing in a wide variety of constellations in the coming weeks. This Sunday he will play a program entitled “Comprovisations” in Kleve as recorder player together with the lutenist David Bergmüller and in early April as harpsichordist at the Festival de Paques in Aix-en-Provence together with the recorder player Lucie Horsch.

26 March – Kleve, Museum Kurhaus
Max Volbers – recorder
David Bergmüller – lute
“Comprovisations”  

3 April – Aix-en-Provence, Festival de Pâques
Max Volbers – harpsichord
Lucie Horsch – recorder
“Conversations”

Max Volbers in Berlin (November 2022)

Espresso Concert „Zeitenwenden“ at the Konzerthaus Berlin

Works by John Baldwin, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Luigi Nono and others with Elisabeth Wirth and Max Volbers on recorder. Please find more information here.