7. January 2025
Max Volbers: Foreign Masters nominated for German Record Critic’s Award (January 2025)
The new CD by recorder player Max Volbers, Foreign Masters, has been nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. On Foreign Masters, Max Volbers, together with Alexander von Heißen (harpsichord), sheds light on the diverse international influences that shaped the London music scene of the 18th century. The album, released by Berlin Classics, has been nominated in the Early Music category (longlist 01/25).
More information can be found at schallplattenkritik.de and maxvolbers.de
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.