Ernst Helmuth Flammer: Early Piano Pieces

Movement, progression, time. The relationship of the three essential components to one another, which define our human existence and nature as something that is constantly changing, determines my composing and is at the same time its source of strength. Here the piano music of my early period, which seemed to me to be clearer than more complex major genres, has a special significance. In each of the five earlier pieces on this CD, she opened a section of work in which, to speak generally, questions of time - various aggregate states of time as well as time subjects - were to come into focus in order to artistically test their potential to become music. Each beginning of such a journey into a new work phase was thought, felt and reflected from the end, from an idea of ​​what it would once look like, of how formative time takes shape. So the journey began with a piano piece and over the course of the group of works, through a creative process, often led to different results than originally felt and conceived.