Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov

"Five Seasons" for recorder & lute

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons “The Spring”, op. 8 No. 1, RV 269
Interlude – Lute solo
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons “The Summer”, op. 8 No. 2, RV 315
Imogen Claire Holst: The Fall of the Leaf (arrangement for historical instruments)
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Antonio Vivaldi: The Fours Seasons “The Autumn”, op. 8 No. 3, RV 293
Interlude – Recorder solo
Antonio Vivaldi: The Fours Seasons “The Winter”, op. 8 No. 4, RV 297
Epilogue – Henry Purcell: A new Ground in e
 

Dorothee Oberlinger, recorder | Edin Karamazov, lute

Dorothee Oberlinger | Recorder

Dorothee Oberlinger is seen as one of the best recorder players worldwide. Born in Aachen in 1969, she studied recorder, school music and German in Cologne, Amsterdam and Milan. She made her international debut in 1997 as winner of the international competition SRP / Moeck U.K. at Wigmore Hall London.

Dorothee Oberlinger is a regular guest at major festivals and concert series around the world and performs as a soloist with renowned ensembles and orchestras, in particular with the "Ensemble 1700" which she founded in 2002. She collaborates with leading interpreters of early music such as Dmitry Sinkovsky, Andreas Scholl and Edin Karamazov, and also likes to experiment with new music and occasionally also contributes to pop music.

She made her international debut as an opera conductor at the Göttingen Handel Festival in 2017 with the Handel production Lucio Cornelio Silla, followed by the operas "Polifemo" by Bononcini (2019), the Telemann opera "Pastorelle en musique" (2021) and the production "I portentosi effetti de la madre natura" by Giuseppe Scarlatti (2022).

In 2020 Dorothee Oberlinger was awarded the Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Prize of the city of Magdeburg.

The international press has repeatedly rated Dorothee Oberlinger's versatility with the highest awards of her numerous recordings with deutsche harmonia mundi / Sony Classical, including the ECHO Klassik (2008, 2013, 2015) and the French music prize Diapason d'Or (2012) .2020 she was named Instrumentalist of the Year at Opus Klassik for her album Night Music.

In October 2024, Dorothee Oberlinger will receive another Opus Klassik for her album with Giuseppe Scarlatti's opera "I Portentosi effetti della Madre Natura" in the category "Opera Recording of the Year 2024" together with her Ensemble 1700 (Sony/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi).

Since 2019 Dorothee Oberlinger is Artistic Director of the Potsdam Music Festival and has been heading the Barockfestspiele Arolsen since 2009.

In addition, Dorothee Oberlinger has been Professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 2004.

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Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov in Frankfurt

Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov perform in Frankfurt on 14 November 2023 the highly acclaimed programme Bach: Dialogues.

Edin Karamazov & Dorothee Oberlinger in Potsdam and Leipzig

On 11 and 12 June 2023 Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov perform at Musikfestspiele Potsdam and Bachfest Leipzig the programme Bach: Dialoge.

Edin Karamazov & Dorothee Oberlinger on tour

Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov perform the programme J.S. Bach: Dialoge on tour: 22.11.2022 Salzburg, 24.11. Rotenburg/Wümme, 26.11. Wehlen and 27.11. Leipzig.

Nomination OPUS Klassik for album J.S.Bach: Dialoge with Oberlinger & Karamazov

The album J.S. Bach: Dialoge by Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov is nominated for OPUS Klassik in the category instrumentalist of the year (Sony Classical/deutsche harmonia mundi).

Edin Karamazov & Dorothee Oberlinger in Sevilla

Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov will perform the programme Bach a due at Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla on 26 March.

Nuria Rial & Edin Karamazov: Album Con guitarra

Coviello Classics has released the first album by Nuria Rial and Edin Karamazov with works for soprano and guitar by Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados and Lorenzo Palomo.

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Press

  • Album J.S. Bach: Dialoge with Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov

    The way they exquisitely present the music of Johann Sebastian Bach leaves any reluctance or shyness behind. And the fact that the concerts, sonatas and suites in this line-up are not original works by Bach, but rather arrangements, opens their play to the free historical imagination […].The dreamlike interplay between Oberlinger and Karamazov inevitably stimulates hearing.

    Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wolfgang Schreiber, 02.08.2021

    Dorothee Oberlinger convinces again with a virtuosic and flowery sound, which combines wonderfully with all its sensuality with the rhythmically fine and dynamically nuanced playing of Edin Karamazov (Sony Classical|deutsche harmonia mundi).

    <link http: www.pizzicato.lu>www.pizzicato.lu, 21.06.2021

    An album that shows how wonderful Bach's music sounds again and again even in non-original line-ups, when the arrangements are well done and when they are played as masterfully as by Oberlinger and Karamazov.

    Hr2, Meinolf Bunsmann, 21.06.2021


     

  • Dorothee Oberlinger & Edin Karamazov: An explosive Bach

    Dorothee Oberlinger and especially Edin Karamazov did not spare a single resource to add color and to get the listener to understand the meaning of every measure of this music [...] The duo filled every phrase and every gesture of the music with meaning, in a Bach-faithful interpretation.

    Diario de Sevilla, Juan Ramón Lara, 26.03.2021

  • A dream of Spanish folklore

    The usual line-up for Spanish music with voice and guitar can be seen on the album "Con Guitarra" with an extraordinary, captivating duo: Núria Rial and Edin Karamazov. Together, the Catalan soprano and her Bosnian accompanist emulate the Spanish and Sephardic folk songs that Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados and Lorenzo Paloma have composed into their compositions. The celebrated singer Rial beguiles once more with her clear, luminous voice. Karamazov, who has made a name for himself with both historical and modern string instruments, impresses with his elaborate guitar playing.

    ORF, Marie-Theres Himmler, 12.01.2021

     

  • An intriguingly pictorial evening

    This interpretation of Bach offered something new. Dorothee Oberlinger and Edin Karamazov created small dramas in different tones and roles on the stage of the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth. […] The variety of sounds was enormous, and Bach's musical language was suddenly amazingly pictorial. One could have listened to the two artists for hours as they spread the sound spectrum and related it to each other. That was music-making at a very high level.

    Zeit für Kultur, Gordian Beck, 08.10.2020

Discography

Dialoge: J.S. Bach
Dialoge: J.S. Bach

Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder)
Edin Karamazov (lute)
Sony Classical/deutsche harmonia mundi (2021)