Markus Simon - Seasons - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The songs for baritone and piano collected on this album were composed by Eberhard Klemmstein between 1999 and 2020. They are settings of texts by German-language poets from three centuries and vastly different in temperament. They are performed by Baritone Christian Hilz and pianist Dorian Keilhack. Christian Hilz's artistic, musical, and pedagogical life is formed and infused by an approach to the repertoire of opera, oratorio, and art songs characterized by enthusiasm as well as zest. His comprehensive scope of activities, consisting of his international career as a singer of opera and concert, as a professor of voice and chamber music at the Bern University of Arts as well as Artistic Director of the Austria Baroque Academy, in addition to being thee director of numerous Master Classes, makes clear the diversity and multiplicity of his competence. The combination of these challenging responsibilities represents for him a fruitful and mutually inspiring balance. Album Tracks 1. Nachtgesänge 2. Lied 3. Nachts 4. Wie Rafft Ich Mich Auf in Der Nacht 5. Nachtgedanken 6. Traumlieder 7. Traumboot 8. Schein Und Wirklichkeit 9. Traum 10. Nachtgesang 11. Vier Lieder 12. An 13. Liebeslied 14. Frage Nicht 15. Schlechter Trost 16. Zweifaches Dreigestirn 17. Oller Mann 18. Aus Evolution III 19. Abendläuten 20. Sommerfrische 21. Landregen 22. An Das Publikum

Besides various intangible elements - a balance of physical and metaphysical properties of Saed Haddad Inchgood musicInch needs. The former he counts beauty, power, magic, power, virtuosity, etc.; in the second category are elusive concepts the existential, the spiritual and the transcendental. The works on this CD come from two different marked by compositional practice periods. In the first period from 2004 to 2006 Haddad sought a synthesis of Arabic and Western music - without the usual Western mesh as tourism, exoticism or some form of abstraction. The aim was a real, existential and transcendental integration, not a juxtaposition or even constraints of a tradition on the other. More recently, since 2007, prefers to always questioning composers continued increasingly from a direct, existential contact with Arab culture. Album Tracks 1. Le Contredesir 2. On Love I for Qanun and Ensemble - Bassm Al Khouri/Ensemble Modern 3. On Love II for Piano and Ensemble - Ensemble Modern 4. Les Deux Visages de L'orient 5. Etudes Mysterieuses 6. The Sublime

Very old - and yet completely new! Beethoven sonatas once again? Yes, once again. For the Austrian pianist Markus Schirmer really has something to say to Beethoven. The way Schirmer illuminates the text and places emphasis on certain aspects is very fresh and personal. A must? - Yes, a must!Inch (Wiener Zeitung) Album Tracks 1. Sonata G Major Op. 31 No. 1 Allegro Vivace 2. Sonata G Major Op. 31 No. 1 Adagio Grazioso 3. Sonata G Major Op. 31 No. 1 Rondo. Allegretto 4. Sonata E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 Allegro 5. Sonata E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 Scherzo. Allegretto Vivace 6. Sonata E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 Menuetto. Moderato E Grazioso 7. Sonata E Flat Major Op. 31 No. 3 Presto Con Fuoco 8. Sonata C Major Op. 53 'Waldstein' Allegro Con Brio 9. Sonata C Major Op. 53 'Waldstein' Introduzione. Adagio Molto 10. Sonata C Major Op. 53 'Waldstein' Rondo. Allegretto Moderato