Sigrun Richter - In Handel's Shadow Vocal Music By His Rivals in - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The largest part of the output of the Hamburg-born composer and writer Walter Niemann (1876-1973), a student of both Humperdinck and Reinecke, is piano music an astonishing 1,000 or so pieces, divided into 189 opus numbers. Most of them are lyrical miniatures in a warm and approachable late-Romantic style, some evoking the music of the past. Occasionally, though, as in Hamburg, a recollection of scenes from his childhood, a degree of mild dissonance indicates his desire to stay true to his memories of growing up in a port city. Album Tracks 1. Der Artushof Suite Aus Alt-Danzig, Op. 158 (1941) 2. Jura-Sommer Kleine Impressionen, Op. 119 (1929) 3. Bunte Blumen Sieben Klavierstücke, Op. 139 (Publ. 1934) 4. Hamburg Ein Zyklus Von 13 Charakterstücken, Op. 107 (Publ. 1926)

Nicolaus Richter de Vroe, one of the strongest talents among the younger composer from Saxony, joined since the mid-eighties produced primarily with instrumental chamber music. And even in the West, he made a sudden talking point after he had won in 1985 at the Cologne Composition Competition InchYoung Generation in EuropeInch a price. Previously, Judge de Vroe had (with a major in violin) visited the Special School of Music in Dresden, the university and finally five years the famous Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. There was a lot of opportunity, more modern than in Dresden perceive. Even Cage came up, and began Richter de Vroe to penetrate into the mind of Zen Buddhism. All in all predominate in pieces Judge de Vroes subversive moments against ingrained conventions of composing, playing and listening. They range from the preferred exploring the regions of noise liable - on the individual, detailed game-action (against a collective feeling generated mass al fresco) - up to the incoherent, free child, labyrinthine design of musical progressions. There are, in spite of explosive force, a predominant gestures of violence, combined with a knack for subtle, fragile and aimlessly static, what time - at least in the music of the GDR - a completely new quality possessed, but beyond all probaten forms of aggressive ideological composing differed. Album Tracks 1. Durchlässige Zonen (I) I 12 03 2. Durchlässige Zonen (I) II 3 49 3. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) I 8 29 4. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) II 7 18 5. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) Aus Weißen 16 40 6. Tetra?? III - I 2 40 7. Tetra?? III - II 3 16 8. Tetra?? III - III 3 12 9. Tetra?? III - IV 6 24 10. Tetra?? III - Lum'q'uart'inance 12 32

Icelandic bass-baritone Andri Björn Róbertsson, and pianist Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir, perform Robert Schumann's Liederkreis op. 24 and Liederkreis op. 39, along with seven songs by the Icelandic composer Árni Thorsteinson. The two Liederkreise were composed during Schumann´s Year of Song in 1840. More than sixty years later Thorsteinson began publishing his songs, and they were instantly regarded as national treasures by the Icelandic nation. The program invites the listener on a mysterious journey through nature, love, death and the unknown. Andri Björn Róbertsson studied at the Reykjavík Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts in his native Iceland, RAM and the National Opera Studio. In the 2020/21 season, Icelandic bass-baritone Andri Bjo¨rn Ro´bertsson returns to Zurich Opera with the La Scintilla Orchestra for St John's Passion and revisits the roles of Witness 3 and Madman in George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence at the Châtelet. Album Tracks 1. Liederkreis Op. 24~Morgens steh' ich auf und frage 2. Liederkreis Op. 24~Es treibt mich hin 3. Liederkreis Op. 24~Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen 4. Liederkreis Op. 24~Lieb' Liebchen, leg's Händchen 5. Liederkreis Op. 24~Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden 6. Liederkreis Op. 24~Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann 7. Liederkreis Op. 24~Berg' und Burgen schau'n herunter 8. Liederkreis Op. 24~Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen 9. Liederkreis Op. 24~Mit Myrten und Rosen 10. Þess bera menn sár 11. Kirkjuhvoll 12. Vorgyðjan kemur 13. Friður á jörðu 14. Rósin 15. Fögur sem forðum 16. Nótt 17. Liederkreis Op. 39~In der Fremde 18. Liederkreis Op. 39~Intermezzo 19. Liederkreis Op. 39~Waldesgespräch 20. Liederkreis Op. 39~Die Stille 21. Liederkreis Op. 39~Mondnacht 22. Liederkreis Op. 39~Schöne Fremde 23. Liederkreis Op. 39~Auf einer Burg 24. Liederkreis Op. 39~In der Fremde 25. Liederkrei