Various Artists - Blumine - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

For the program of the ARS PRODUKTION recording presented here with works by women composers, pianist Lisa Maria Schachtschneider was inspired by the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann in 2019. In the spirit of equality and diversification, however, she has decided to record the work of a male composer with Robert Schumann's Carnaval Op.9. Lisa Maria Schachtschneider is a concert pianist and piano teacher. She appears regularly with great success in German-speaking countries, but can also look back on international appearances in Canada. In her concerts, Lisa Maria Schachtschneider builds an intensive connection to her audience through exciting background information on the works she has performed and current references to the present day. In order to get as close as possible to the emotional message of the compositions, she deals with historical instruments, performance practice and historical background at the time the works were created. Details 1. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Thema Ziemlich Langsam 2. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 1 3. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 2 4. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 3 5. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 4 6. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 5 Poco Animato 7. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 6 8. Variationen über Ein Thema von Robert Schumann Op. 20 in Fis-Moll~Var. 7 9. Sonata~Moderato. Presto Misterioso 10. Introduction und Capriccio in H-Moll 11. Aus Dem Heft InchBaumklangInch~Palme Mit Schnee 12. Sonata C-Dur Op. 1 Nr. 5~Vivace 13. Sonata C-Dur Op. 1 Nr. 5~Siciliana. Andante 14. Sonata C-Dur Op. 1 Nr. 5~Spiritoso Assai 15. Ca

The fourth and final recording of Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett's InchMare BalticumInch project with and about music from the Baltic region, the first of which has already received the coveted ICMA, is perhaps the most beautiful. One-part melodies sung by four women in their own rhythm and yet in complete unison transport us to the bygone world of the Middle Ages. Solo songs bring us even closer to that time. For instance, when - this is just one example - Lorenza Donadini as Mary laments the death of Jesus, we hear the grief of a living mother over the death of her own child. What a pity that this excursion into the past lasts only 79 minutes!

The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin Mörk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled 'Affinities'. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs - a varied one, filtered through friendships, family connections and teacher-pupil relationships. All the composers represented on the album studied and/or worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the three great German-speaking musical centres - Vienna, Munich and Berlin - and include figures both well known (Schoenberg, Weill, Skalkottas and Mitropoulos) and less familiar (Emilios Riadis, Dimitrios Lialios, Ludwig Thuille). With twelve composers and even more poets involved, the subject matter of the individual songs is diverse indeed - from a café scene in Berlin (Der Abschiedsbrief by Kurt Weill in cabaret mode) to a hymn to Aphrodite, set by Dimitri Mitropoulos in a highly expressionistic free atonal idiom inspired by Schoenberg.