Herbert Schuch - Sehnsuchtswalzer - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John Zorn - Rimbaud [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/28/2012

For this CD Herbert Schuch has not only selected two composers but also two different instruments. He plays the A-major Sonata on a Fazioli grand piano that provides him with a somewhat more slender sound. The Schubert program is divided by Leos Janacek's 1905 Sonata; this is almost like an 'Unfinished,' for the composer burned the third movement shortly prior to the premiere. OehmsClassics is proud to continue accompanying the intelligently thought out career of Herbert Schuch with this CD.

Although they each spent their childhood in thoroughly different circumstances, Herbert Schuch and Gülru Ensari feel somehow connected through memories of their first musical moments. Herbert grew up until the age of nine in the Romanian countryside near the Hungarian border, during the bleak last years of communism. Born in Istanbul, Gülru grew up as a city dweller. InchWe both had a record player at homeInch, she remarks, to show what they had in common. Now, as a married couple and piano duo, they have found time and leisure during the pandemic to look back on the past. Overjoyed by the birth of their daughter, they shared memories of certain moments from their own childhood that seem to stand still in time. For this album, InchIn search of...Inch, they looked for music they associate with those moments. In so doing, they were also searching for their own identity. Herbert belongs to the minority of the Banat Swabians InchAlthough there was no direct Hungarian lineage in my family, the language and culture of Hungary played a significant role in our lives. Conversely, although we were in Romania, we practically had no points of contact with Romanian cultureInch, he remembers. InchThe pieces we played at home back then would have seemed out of place on this album; in my parents' home, we exclusively played the Hungarian operetta tunes that were en vogue. My uncle sang, and he was accompanied at the piano by my father, who had brought back LPs from the GDR.Inch