OCTET, ELEGIE, SERENADE

Whenever the Berolina Ensemble performs - expect the unexpected. The young Berlin musicians have been seeking out unknown chamber music in unusual scorings - and with the works of Waldemar von Baussnern, they have scored another bullseye. Baussnern's works blend the influences of the conservative and New German schools into a highly individual style; it is to his position as Academy secretary that we owe the appointments of Schoenberg, Schreker and Hindemith to the Berlin Academy of Sciences.