Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Martin Stegner and Tomoko Takahashi adapted romances and songs by Robert Schumann for viola and piano. All pieces mentioned date back to the year 1849. It marks a period of his work that endowed – second to the year 1840 that was decidedly characterized by song – the composer with yet another rich, though autumnal, harvest of songs.

Classical Music

Although Boris Blacher is largely unknown today, he was an extremely influential figure in West-Berlin cultural life just after World War II. After his persecution under the Nazi regime Blacher emerged as one of the finest composers in post-war Germany. He was appointed a professor at the Berlin Academy of Music, and chairman of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin. His compositions are joined here by works from Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, and Kurt Weill.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

The music of Oliver Korte has a sensibility of it's own. On this album you will find musical textures of high individuality. They can be smooth or rough, thick or thin, freezing cold or boiling hot. Korte creates a growing collection of physical phenomena and deals with the question of the relationship between the individual and the world.

Classical Music

A universe: The Clavier�bung (keyboard practice)... composed for Music-Lovers for the refreshment of their Spirits - thus the complete edition of the six Partitas from 1731, published by Bach at his own expense to establish as a keyboard composer. Is tending to this dialectic: Pi-Hsien Chen is aiming at the mediation of object and subject - going far beyond the limits of the respective instrument.