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Stefan Wolpe: Songs - Battle Piece
Info text: The turn of the year 1929/1930 marked a break in Stefan Wolpe's life: after long years and many attempts to find his place in the avant-garde cultural life of the Weimar Republic, around this time he finally turned to work as a political composer and became intensively involved in the field of workers' music and agitprop. Without his, at the […]
Dan Dediu: Piano Pieces
Info text: CARNIVAL OF THE INSECTS Dan Dediu plays piano music by Dan Dediu Dan Dediu was born in 1967 in Braila/Romania, in a city about which there is nothing to report. At the age of thirteen he came to the Romanian capital, to the Bucharest Music High School. It's winter and the heating has broken down again - the years of shortages have already begun. […]
Ladislav Kubík: Songs of Zhivago
Info text: Boris Pasternak received the Nobel Prize in 1958 for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which he was forced to decline by the regime. The Czech composer Ladislav Kubík, who lives in the USA, sees the poems that Pasternak added at the end of his novel as a portrait of the poet and used this material to form his main work for tenor and orchestra. […]
Arnold Schönberg, Luciano Berio: Pierrot lunaire plus jazz, folk songs
Info text: Schönberg wrote “Pierrot lunaire” shortly before the development of twelve-tone music in a few days (March/June 1912) and selected 21 poems from a cycle by the French poet Albert Giraud in the German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben. There is no ongoing plot. Each poem describes a small scene, a moving image, a macabre anecdote […]
Mathias Spahlinger: Colors of the early days / musica viva vol. 16
Info text: Spahlinger is not exactly known as a quick writer, but the eight years it took to write it is exceptionally long, even for his standards. The premiere of the piece was postponed five times before it was finally realized in November 2005 (Theaterhaus Stuttgart). Last but not least, Spahlinger opens up between the rubble of tonal order and the shells and new buildings of the […]
John Cage: Music for Piano 1-84
Info text: When John Cage let his eyes wander over blank, white paper - in 1952, the same year that the piece "4'33" was created and he thereby promoted the realization that there can be no silence that is not rich in sound - Cage discovered one of his most radical solutions: “Suddenly I saw that the notes, all the notes, were already there.” […]
Minas Borboudakis: Piano Works
Info text: Borboudakis: I still see myself in a tradition of piano music, without wanting to compare myself with Chopin or Schumann. For me personally, looking back at music history is very important, but I'm not looking for interpretive or compositional dogmas. I need the piano very much as a composer - not to try something out, [...]