Info text: GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS A shadow play · 4th and 7th string quartet Georg Friedrich Haas is currently considered the most important representative of microtonal composing. That's basically true, but it falls a bit short, as if this composer was only interested in technical problems and was still in the advanced tradition of studying and exploring musical [...]

Info text: SONIC METAMORPHOSES Works by important composers have come down to us in different versions. The changes range from small retouches to the instrumentation to complete line-up changes to a kind of new composition. Sometimes the authors carried out these adaptations themselves and published several versions of a work, sometimes contemporaries or later generations took on these compositions and gave them to [...]

Info text: CHRISTIAN OFENBAUER · DESTRUCTION OF THE ROOM / TIME As enigmatically abstract and hermetic as Christian Ofenbauer's music may sometimes be, it reacts sensitively to the context in which it is created, to the performers for whom it is intended, to their framework conditions. Certainly, everything composed communicates, be it through [...]

Info text: PAUL HINDEMITH »1922« Suite for Piano · Three Piano Sonatas »Can you also use Fox trots, Bostons, Rags and other kitsch? When I can't think of any decent music, I always write stuff like that. I do it very well, and I think you could do more business with a piece like this than with my best […]

Info text: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Music by Werner Heider When Werner Heider was asked in 2006, on the occasion of the premiere of his orchestral work Architecture at the Munich musica viva, which metaphysical or symbolic ideas were hidden behind the formal floor plan, he amazed his counterpart with a very clear one Answer: »My piece is simply a composition of musical architecture. There should […]

Info text: PHILIPPE MANOURY · LE TEMPS, MODE D'EMPLOI Le temps, mode d'emploi is a large musical fresco about different methods of shaping time. Contemplative or active time, delayed or real time, continuous or discontinuous, uniform or pulsating, suspended, resumed, circling, inflected... physical or musical time, but also psychological time. She is not only […]

Info text: WOLFGANG JACOBI – A MODERN CLASSIC »Jacobi is neither a prolific nor a fast writer. In each of his works you can notice the care of the design process, the precise sense of responsibility towards every note and pause, the self-critical shyness [...] of too much and too little," said the musicologist Erich Valentin in 1958 about Wolfgang Jacobi's work. And […]

Info text: ABOUT BREAKING UP THE GARDEN Songs by Jürg Wyttenbach, Katrin Frauchiger, Katharina Weber, Hanns Eisler and Alban Berg "There's not much to analyze!" Jürg Wyttenbach remarks mischievously. We are sitting in a Bernese café, with photocopies of the “Liedle” spread out in front of us, as the composer simply and lovingly calls his 8 Duettini and Three Short Prayers. They are 2014 […]

Program: Homage to Horațiu Rădulescu (1942–2008) Complete Works for Piano SACD 1 total playing time: 63:39 Kalotrope of the Eternal [01] Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti Op. 2 (1967) 06:42 Sixth Piano Sonata“return to the source of light” Op. 110 (2007) 25:34 [02] I. Use your own light. Allegro 19:48 [03] II. Calotrope of the Eternal. Cantabile 05:46 Piano Sonata “settle your dust, this is the […]

Info text: TATSIANA ZELIANKO – PIANO WORKS Huit préludes for piano op. 4 (2009) My preludes, created between 2005 and 2009, are a collection of 10 pieces. Only the Preludes No. 3 and No. 9 are not included in this recording. The composition of these pieces is closely linked to two different phases of my life. I will therefore divide them in chronological order [...]

Program: Pieces for empty hands – 11 Benedictions (2011) 16:03 [01] Opening 00:18 [02] 1 Aria 01:04 [03] 2 01:10 [04] 3 fast 00:20 [05] 4 quarters = 72 01:11 [06] 5 01:30 [07] 6 Nachtstück 01:24 [08] 7 Lachrymosa 02:09 [09] 8 maestoso 01:55 [10] 9 quiet 02:15 [11] 10 Aria 01 :34 [12] 11 quick 00:23 [13] End 00:49 [14] Songs on the run - piano music II (1983) 15:45 [15] VOID (1999) 14:09 [16] Undine goes (2014 ) 07:46 Dialoghi d'amore V (2010 / 2011) 25:58 [17] 1 intimate, quiet 03:05 [18] 2 sublime, quiet, in the […]

Program: [01] Versione for solo piano (1973) 08:58 [02] Disegno per pianoforte (1984)* 09:48 [03] Disegno 2 for solo piano (1987) 04:55 [04] Disegno 3 (Carosello for solo piano ( 2005)* 08:13 [05] Suolo for solo piano (1983)* 15:01 [06] Disegno per clavicembalo (1982) 07:35 total playing time: 55:05 Andreas Skouras, piano & harpsichord * First recordings press reviews: April 2018 | Dirk Wieschollek The Greek pianist Andreas Skouras has a knack for excavations, also when it comes to the Scandinavian repertoire. […]