Released tomorrow, Parallels is an album born from digitised shellac discs.
Christian Löffler will release an album as part of Deutsche Grammophon's initiative, The Shellac Project.
A collaboration between German classical label Deutsche Grammophon and Google Arts & Culture has given rise to The Shellac Project, a digitisation of shellac discs (78s), the primary format for recorded material until the 1930s. Deutsche Grammophon, which was founded in 1898, has one of the oldest collections of recorded material in the world.
Christian Löffler was invited to interpret material from Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Wagner, Smetana and Bizet. A set of Beethoven reworks were released in November 2020 and an album of all the material follows on vinyl tomorrow, February 12th.
"I hope my interpretations reach out to people who wouldn't usually listen to the old masters," Löffler says of the album, "there is so much strength, youth and wildness inside this timeless music."
Listen to "Moldau."
Tracklist
01. Parsifal
02. Moldau
03. Dir Jehova
04. Gavotte
05. Nocturne
06. Nadir
07. Pastoral
08. Fate
09. Freiyheit
10. Funebre
Deutsche Grammophon will release Parallels on February 12th, 2021.
