Chris Norman - Lifelines - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Heinz Holliger, an exceptional oboist, pianist, and composer, did not compose anything for piano for almost 40 years after his 1961 work InchElis - Three NocturnesInch. A whole series of musical tributes and birthday greetings composed since the beginning of the 21st century was then published in 2019 under the Schumannesque title InchAlbumblatterInch (Album Leaves) and has now been recorded in it's entirety for the first time by Kirill Zvegintsov. These are typically Holligerian, highly intricate showpieces with many references, which are expertly explained in the album essay. These works are combined with early and late piano works by the Swiss composer and pianist Jurg Wyttenbach, who died in 2021 and had a close musical relationship with Holliger. In the last years of his life, this expert in New Music took on the daring task of completing Beethoven's sketches for an alternative third movement for his Piano Sonata Op. 109 - an undertaking that only such a skilled pianist and composer could attempt. In the last days of his life, Wyttenbach was able to listen to the premiere of this reconstruction by Zvegintsov. The Ukrainian pianist combines and contrasts this experiment with the original modern works in a very stimulating way. Album Tracks 1. Drei Klavierstücke-I 2. Drei Klavierstücke-II 3. Drei Klavierstücke-III 4. Albumblätter-I. Wiegenlied FÜR E 5. Albumblätter-Albumblätter Ii/Iii/Iv Happy Birthday Elliott Carter. II. Hbec I 6. Albumblätter-Albumblätter Ii/Iii/Iv Happy Birthday Elliott Carter. III. Hbec II 7. Albumblätter-Albumblätter Ii/Iii/Iv Happy Birthday Elliott Carter. IV. Hbec III 8. Albumblätter-Albumblätter V/Vi Zwei Stücke Nach Mani Matter FÜR Heidy Zimmermann. V. I M.M. Umspielt 9. Albumblätter-Albumblätter V/Vi Zwei Stücke Nach Mani Matter FÜR Heidy Zimmermann. VI. II Siomadini 10. Klaviersonate NR. 30, Op. 109-I. Vivace

Album Tracks 1. White Night 2. On the Air 3. Not Through Windows 4. Dance for a Drop of Blood 5. Blisstability 6. Uneasy Affair 7. Don't Need Surgery 8. 2 Split Seconds 9. False Alarm 10. Background 11. Cool Snap 12. Nerve Pylon 13. Over the Brow 14. Transit 15. Part II 16. House of Cracks 17. Old Town 18. Barbican

Album Tracks 1. Changing Times 2. Easy Rider 3. Stony Road 4. Dancing the Blues Away 5. Burning Feet 6. Mississippi 7. Slow Dance 8. When the Good Lord Talked to Jesus 9. Heading for the City 10. So Lonely 11. Someday My Peace Will Come 12. Hustler 13. Give That Girl a Diamond