Stephan M ller - Klavierwerke - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The baritone Stephan Genz and the pianist Michel Dalberto gathered again around the Lied. After Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, they join Schubert to record his Swansong. That posthumous cycle, with it's moving accents and mysterious atmosphere, was made up by an editor in want of a commercial success. However this collection of lieder shows how skilled Schubert was to make a real author of a minor one. Schubert was also the first composer to set Heine's poetry to music, well before Schumann. Album Tracks 1. Schwanengesang D.957 (Lieder) Liebesbotschaft 2. Kriegers Ahnung 3. Frühlingssehnsucht 4. Ständchen 5. Aufenthalt 6. In Der Ferne 7. Abschied 8. Klavierstücke. D946 9. Schwanengesang D.957 (Lieder)Der Atlas 10. Ihr Bild 11. Das Fischermädchen 12. Die Stadt 13. Am Meer 14. Der Doppelgänger 15. Die Taubenpost

In the last years of his life, John Cage wrote a great many so-called 'Number Pieces' - the title indicating the number of performing musicians. While most of these pieces indicate which instruments are to be played, as well as the sounds that are to be produced, other pieces offer only general tone descriptions or a framework for choosing the tones oneself. What these pieces do have in common is time-organization Cage designates the measure within which the tones must be played. Should one play these sound-sequences within the interval quickly, then one must wait for the beginning of the next measure in order to continue; should one play with an even slowness, the separate intervals are joined without interruption. And so, each performance of the same piece is different in one instance an even flow of sounds, in another a pulsation of rapid responses accompanied by pauses (including all variations). An exception is 'Two²'. Here the two pianists do not play according to a stopwatch, but rather by reacting to one another Although the piece indicates measure, it does not assign tempo or even pulse. While both interpreters play independently of each other, they may continue on to the next measure only when the other player has finished his. Cage decided on the number of tones within a measure by drawing upon the rules of Renga, Japanese linked poetry, in which the number of syllables per verse are set at 5, 7, 5, 7, 7. As the pedal is continuously depressed, the notes sound into one another and this inner structure remains undetected. Album Tracks 1. Music for Piano 4-19 2. Music for Piano 20 3. Music for Piano~Music for Piano 21-36, 37-52 4. Variations I 5. Solo for Piano 1. One for piano solo 2. Two for two pianos, four hands 3. One for piano solo

Album Tracks 1. Schleiermacher, Steffen - Granites (1929) 2. With Condensed Strength & Majesty - with Stark R 3. Schleiermacher, Steffen - Three Paeans (1927) 4. With Joyous Exaltation - Epic & Resonant - with 5. Schleiermacher, Steffen - Tetragrams NR. 1 Serie 6. 1. Quest Solemm, Yet with Emotional Intensity - P 7. 2. Crucifixion With Tragic Intensity - Sharp and 8. 3. Rebirth Appassionato Rubato - with Deep Tender 9. Schleiermacher, Steffen - Third Pentagram (1926) 10. Gates - the Gift of Blood - Stars - Sunburst