H.W. Henze - Musica Da Camera - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With this CD, WERGO publishes most of Henze's works for piano solo. Piano music occupies only a small part of his existing oeuvre, whereas Hans Werner Henze has written regularly for the piano in combination with other instruments, most of all the orchestra. These pieces on the present recording, played by Homero Francesch who has already played many world premieres of the composer's works, have one idea in common. Whether they date from forty years ago or from the more recent past, it is that the composer's thumbprint is instantly identifiable in the melos, gesture and treatment of long-established forms. Everywhere there is evidence of a living relationship to traditional European and especially Austrian piano music, more particularly piano music by Haydn and Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, Bach and Stravinsky and of course the composers of the Second Viennese School. Album Tracks 1. Une Petite Phrase (Aus Dem Film InchUn Amour de SwannInch) 2. Lucy Escott Variations, FüR Klavier 3. Andante Cantabile 4. Sostenuto 5. Con Allegrezza 6. Ballade 7. Allegro Con Grazia 8. Der Menschenfresser - Allegretto Barbaro 9. Menschenfressers Traum - Moderato Cantabile 10. Allegro Mostroso 11. Anhang Margaretenwalzer 12. Variationen FüR Klavier Op. 13 13. Molto Movimentato 14. Cantabile, Con Tenerezza 15. Vivace

Hans Werner Henze's compositional output is dominated by the larger genres with their richly differentiated palette of instrumental colors. This CD with the Ensemble Recherche allows room to, among others, chamber music works that had been unpublished so far, the manuscripts of which are in the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. It collects a mixed bouquet of occasional pieces, dedicated to close friends and colleagues, spanning a time of approximately two decades e.g. Yehudi Menuhin, Leon Fleisher, Paul Dessau or his patroness and friend of many years, Margaret, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine. Earch for a path between the stones.Inch Album Tracks 1. Sonata for 6 Players 1. Con Moto 2. Sonata for 6 Players 2. Andante Cantabile 3. Sonata for 6 Players 3. Passacaglia 4. Margareten-Walzer, for Piano 5. Ländler, for Violin Solo (Withdrawn By Composer) 6. La Mano Sinistra, for Piano 7. Epitaph, for Cello Solo 8. Toccata Mistica, for Piano 9. Trio, for Violin, Viola & Cello 1. Allegrettino 10. Trio, for Violin, Viola & Cello 2. Adagio 11. Trio, for Violin, Viola & Cello 3. Ländler Con Grazia 12. Ode Al Dodicesimo Apostolo, for Piano 13. An Brenton, for Viola 14. For Reinhold, for Piano 15. Serenade, for Violin Solo 16. Adagio, Adagio, Serenade, for Violin, Cello & Piano

Album Tracks 1. Pastorale. Moderato 2. Morgenlied. Allegretto Moderato 3. Ballade. Con Comodo 4. Tanz. Con Comodo 5. Rezitativ. Con Pathos 6. Abendlied. Allegretto Misterioso 7. Ausklang. Landler 8. Adagio 9. Allegro Marcato 10. Air 11. Vivace 12. Carillon 13. Recitatif 14. Masque 15. Selbst-Und Zwiegesprache 16. Moderato 17. Allegretto 18. Allegramente 19. Vivace 20. Quia Respexit Humiltatem Ancillae Suae