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Peter Ruzicka: Piano Works
Info text: PETER RUZICKA – PIANO WORKS FIVE SCENES Peter Ruzicka noted in 2009 on the occasion of a new production of his opera CELAN that some central moments of the large orchestral score could be “represented” in a new aesthetic form in the linearity of the piano writing. In this opera, key traumatic experiences in the life of the poet, who survived the Holocaust, are revisited in many ways [...]
Hermann Keller: Schumann Metamorphoses and Piano Sonatas
Info text: SCHUMANN METAMORPHOSES AND PIANO SONATAS Hermann Keller continues to compose “score music” and, when he improvises at the piano, he always evokes the sleep of real discovery. The fact that the passionate artist needs counterparts to give his music authenticity and vitality is, for him, a cardinal prerequisite for creative work. Applying design techniques carefully and always giving them new […]
Wolfgang Rihm, Béla Bartók: Script to Script
Info text: BARTÓK – RIHM Bartók had already demonstratively made his preference for the combination of piano and drums public a decade before the quartet sonata: in his first piano concerto, in which the new prominence of the drums is also visually demonstrated by the fact that the players “immediately “be placed behind the piano”. For Bartók, piano and percussion belong to one family, after all, when […]
Josef Anton Riedl: maybe – perhaps – peut-être
Info text: He is an engineer, a designer of fragile structures. His “sound actions” do social work: professional musicians and amateurs work together, playing on self-made and traditional instruments. Disabled people can communicate with non-disabled people. Graphic, gestural and acoustic forms of expression intertwine. Skepticism and playfulness, and a fascinating transparency in thinking characterize the work of Josef [...]
Olivier Messiaen: Complete Works for Piano Solo Vol.1
Info text: Markus Bellheim begins his recording of all of Olivier Messiaen's piano compositions with a major work in which the elements that are important for further work work together in an exemplary manner: Franciscan-influenced mysticism, synesthesia, the love of the voices of nature and the sharpening of awareness of foreign musical cultures with their diverse melodies and rhythms. In the “look of the prophets, the […]
Paul Ben-Haim: Kabbalat Shabbat
Info text: The Munich-born Paul Ben-Haim, once assistant to Bruno Walter and Knappertsbusch at the State Opera, then Kapellmeister in Augsburg, then unemployed and refugee, experienced a late rediscovery by the Munich Jakobsplatz Orchestra. Daniel Grossmann presents works from the years in which the composer was building a new life for himself in Israel: his “Sonata in G”, which he […]
Galina Ustvolskaya: Complete Works for Piano
Info text: Consistent in her thinking and resistant to any form of opportunism, she had to remain silent in the Soviet Union for years, but she was not broken. Galina Ustvolskaya lived and survived in a narrow, narrow space. To call their music “protest” would be too short-sighted – it was simply “different”. The complete recording of her piano works by Sabine [...]
George Crumb, György Kurtág, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Béla Bartók, Peter Eötvös: Kosmos
Info text: Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher reach for the stars: A cold, glittering vision of the young Péter Eötvös of the growth and decay of the cosmos forms the center of their new recital, which is staged as a flight through musical worlds. Dance and song studies from Béla Bartók's “microcosm” are viewed longingly, as if from the distance of space. […]
Franz Schubert, Dmitri Shostakovich: Grand Duo
Info text: Orchestral music for piano four hands, interpreted precisely and simply: Franz Schubert's “Grand Duo” from 1824 in comparison with the 5th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich from 1937 (in an arrangement authorized by the composer). Here the reduction of a real orchestral sound - there a romantic desire for expression that pushes the limits of the instrument, [...]
Georges Aperghis: Works for piano
Info text: Aperghis started working on the naked, unalienated piano sound relatively late - the results are all the more concentrated. Nicholas Hodges has been drawing a summary of the pieces since 1997: He emphasizes the clarity, the sharp lines, the luminosity of the colors. He transforms graceful movement into frenzy and back again. He lets rhythms and harmonies tumble wildly together, [...]
Nikolay A. Roslavets: Works for piano
Info text: Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets Igor Stravinsky, who should have known, called him the most interesting Russian composer of the 20th century and wrote to the violinist and music writer Michael Goldstein on August 12, 1966: »... I am pleased to attest to my always extraordinary encounters with him and the exciting impression of his fresh, always fresh music, which comes from […]
Wolfgang Rihm: La musique creuse le ciel
Info text: Eviscerated sky - La musique creuse le ciel Wolfgang Rihms La musique creuse le ciel for two pianos and large orchestra is an early work, written between 1977 and 1979; the composer was 25 years old when he began working on this score. It is the stroke of genius of a “young wild man” who at the beginning of his career […]