Kyra Steckeweh - Piano Works Solo & Choir Works with Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Gustav Jenner was the only young composer ever to receive an invitation to come to Vienna from Brahms, who wanted to keep a critical eye on his development as a composer. For this reason it is justifiable to term Jenner Brahms's only compositional pupil. Jenner himself regarded his encounter with Brahms as the »decisive stroke of luck« in his life. The circumstance that artistic personalities around Brahms were outshone by the master's radiant light had particularly fateful consequences for Jenner. The mere realization that he had been Brahms's pupil immediately gave rise to the charge of epigonism and prevented him from receiving an independent evaluation. It is completely incorrect to term him a InchBrahms epigone,Inch as frequently occurred. Although Jenner's music is situated very much in the orbit of his teacher's sound world, it nevertheless reveals a highly personal musical signature - also in his compositions for piano. The pianist Solvejg Henkhaus became acquainted with these works very early and has thoroughly probed this often introspective, very intensive music. Jenner's thorough occupation with the folk song is apparent in his themes, which often are very much of cantilena character. Song quality is the decisive element in the rendering of lied melodies into themes in his instrumental music.

Nilüfer Yanya runs head first into the depths of emotional vulnerability on her anticipated sophomore record PAINLESS. Recorded between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish Music in Penzance, the record is a more sonically direct effort, narrowing her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas. Yanya's debut album Miss Universe (2019) earned a Best New Music tag from Pitchfork and saw support tours with Sharon Van Etten, Mitski and The XX.

Ludomir Michal Rogowski (born on 3 October 1881 in Lublin, died on 13 March 1954 in Dubrovnik) a composer, conductor, and theoretician, throughout his life he was under a great influence of the work by Fryderyk Chopin. By actively participating in the scientific work of the musical community (among others, in 1910 he took part in the First Congress of Polish Composers in Lviv, as part of the second section -Pedagogy and Performance), Rogowski would develop concepts regarding the nature of Polish musical works, whose framework was a postulate for creation of a separate style of Polish music, not subject to external inspirations. This album from Urszula Swierczynska with Dominika Szlezynger, devoted entirely to Rogowski's works, reveals to us another, forgotten page from the history of the Polish music of the first half of the 20th century.