Steffan / Torbianelli - Klavierwerke - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

German composer and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher, a tireless advocate of avant-garde piano music, has recorded extensively. Album Tracks 1. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer for Harmonium Melodies Op. ? 2. No. 2 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 2 58 ? 3. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 4 22 ? 4. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer, Holger Falk Melodies for Voice and Piano Op. 1 57 ? 5. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer for Harmonium Melodies Op. 4 41 ? 6. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 5 19 ? 7. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Celesta Op. 4 46 ? 8. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 6 10 ? 9. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 6 22 ? 10. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 30 5 43 ? 11. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 31 ? 12. No. 2 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 2 43 ? 13. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Celesta Op. 32 ? 14. No. 2 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 1 25 ? 15. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 33 5 17 ? 16. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Celesta Op. 34 3 49 ? 1. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 35 5 51 ? 2. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 36 5 05 ? 3. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Piano Op. 37 ? 4. No. 2 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 1 26 ? 5. No. 3 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 2 08 ? 6. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthias Hauer Melodies for Celesta Op. 38 ? 7. No. 2 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 1 10 ? 8. No. 3 (Without Satzbezeichnung) 1 24 ? 9. Steffen Schleiermacher, Josef Matthi

In this substantial recording, the award-winning young pianist Dario Bonuccelli leads us towards the discovery of the works of Giovanni Rinaldi, a discreet and precious figure in the Italian artistic panorama of the nineteenth-century. The trait that chiefly defines Rinaldi's personality, in addition to his composing exclusively for the piano, is the fact that his inspiration expressed itself invariably outside the established formal patterns no Sonatas, no Themes with Variations, no substantial Inchconcert piecesInch, but only short, strongly characterized pieces. Not even an authoritative friend such as Giulio Ricordi, who urged him to compose a sonata, managed to change his conviction that the music he was creating must be the most direct expression of an emotion, and was not to be conditioned by abstract principles. The mastery of Dario Bonuccelli in the interpretation of these small portraits mainly dedicated to nature, daily life, small emotions and simple feelings, brings us back to the discovery of an alternative cultural undergrowth that flourished in the shadow of the great European romanticism and the rampant nineteenth-century Italian melodrama.

The Swiss musician See Siang Wong presents a compendium of new Swiss piano music in the form of works composed for him from 2001-04. Born in Holland in 1979, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described pianist See Siang Wong as a Inchsubtle sound painterInch. He made his debut with the Dutch Radio Orchestra at age 12 and has since performed concerts in renowned houses throughout Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. In addition to his interest in new music, he has also received high praise from the trade press for his solo CDs of works by Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Schumann, and Beethoven.