Credits:

Benjamin Gunst

Description:

This is the GENUIN debut album by Benjamin Gntz, winner of the 2025 German Music Competition. Born from his own questionWhat happens to us when we dive beneath the waters surface?it is a concept album that musically depicts a dive from light into darkness and back up into the light again. Drawing on his own experiences diving in the Baltic Seaa body of water familiar to Gntz, who grew up in northern Germanyhe interprets Enescus feverish *Concertante Impromptu* as a leap into the water, Biebers *Guardian Angel* as a descent into mysterious depths, and Bartk as a confrontation with the dark abyss of the human soul. With Mozart, the listener approaches the surface once more, and the narrative culminates in a return to the light through Ysaes Spanish-inspired vitality. It is also noteworthy that Bartks *Sonata for Solo Violin* is recorded in its original form, including microtones in the final mo