The K&K Verlagsanstalt label is based in Western Germany
(close to the French border). It boasts a growing catalogue of high-quality
(audiophile) recordings of excellent performances. Below you can discover
more about this CD label, and follow the link to the list of K&K titles
we have in our on-line store.
K&K Verlagsanstalt
Publishing culture in its authentic form entails for us
capturing and recording for posterity outstanding performances and concerts.
The performers, audience, opus and room enter into an intimate dialogue
that in its form and expression, its atmosphere, is unique and unrepeatable.
It is our aim, the philosophy of our house, to enable the listener to
acutely experience every facet of this symbiosis, the intensity of the
performance. The results are unparalleled interpretations of musical and
literary works, simply - audiophile snapshots of permanent value.
Maulbronn Monastery Edition
Concert recordings from UNESCO´s
World Heritage Site.
The concerts in Maulbronn monastery, which we document
with this edition, supply, in many ways, the ideal conditions for our
aspirations. It is, above all, the atmosphere of the romantic, candle-lit
arches, the magic of the monastery in its unadulterated sublime presence
and tranquillity that impresses itself upon the performers and audience
of these concerts. Renowned soloists and ensembles from the international
arena repeatedly welcome the opportunity to appear here - enjoying the
unparalleled acoustic and architectural beauty of this World Heritage
Site (monastery church, cloister gardens, lay refectory, etc.), providing
exquisite performances of secular and sacred music.
Under the patronage of the Evangelical Seminar, the Maulbronn
Monastery Cloister Concerts were instigated in 1968 with an abundance
of musical enthusiasm and voluntary leadership. Within the hallowed walls
of the classical grammar and boarding school, existent for more than 450
years, some of society's great thinkers, poets and humanists, such as
Kepler, Hölderlin, Herwegh and Hesse received their first impressions.
The youthful elan, the constructive participation of the pupils, continuing
the tradition of their great predecessors, constructs an enlightened climate
in which artistic ambitions can especially thrive. Twenty-five concerts
take place between May and September. Their success can be largely attributed
to the many voluntary helpers from near and far. There is a break for
winter (the monastery is not heated!).
Flourishing culture is a living monument, created for
the delight of the live audience and, last but not least, you the listener,
are the ideals we document with this series.
Edition "Authentic Classical
Concerts"
A concert is made up of three elements: the ensemble,
the work & the ambiance. When these aspects combine successfully,
the result is a thrilling experience. One can just imagine sitting in
one´s velvet seat in the theatre, the audience murmuring in anticipation...
the lights go down, the curtain darkens, and a round of applause bursts
forth as the orchestra appears, a hushed silence as the music begins...
Due to the production skills and the perceptive mastering techniques of
Andreas Otto Grimminger, and the fact that theses concerts are recorded
in "directly 2-Track Stereo" - meaning there are no artificial
embellishments - the Edition Authentic Classical Concerts is so life-like
in quality that one gets the feeling of actually being there in person.
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