Velte / Musikhochschule Karlsruhe / Velte - Velte & His Students - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The composers and educators Eugen Werner Velte and Wolfgang Rihm as well as alumni whose music is presented here demonstrate the characteristics of a school. The main function of an institution such as the University of Music Karlsruhe is first and foremost as a site for studies and second, a place for individual composition and pedagogic work. The Karlsruhe School is in no way a forced stylistic unit stubbornly passed along simultaneously as a solidified traditional framework. For 50 years, the University of Music Karlsruhe has radiated as a living, recreative phenomenon of this artistic freedom, extending far into a shared future. In the music of alumni taught by Wolfgang Rihm, ideals of musical freedom and openness continue to resound in concrete form. Jörg Widmann, Rebecca Saunders and Markus Hechtle, among others, contribute to the further development of the unique Karlsruhe School at their professional homes.

On these three albums I am thrilled to present seven highly gifted young pianists who gave their début performances at the Ruhr Piano Festival 2019 -promising artists from whom we can expect and are sure to hear much more in the future. The most recent volumes of our Ruhr Piano Festival Boxed Edition mainly featured work of the 18th and 19th centuries, in accordance with each Festival edition's chosen themes; this year, however, we can feature Baroque und Early Classical repertoire on almost two entire albums. On the third we then plunge headlong into the Romantic 19th century with major challenging works by Brahms and Liszt... (Excerpt from the forward by Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, Director)

Danzi / Spiedel / Draheim - Klaviermusik Karlsruher Komponisten [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/05/1996