Werner Heinrich Schmitt: Piano Works, Chamber Music & Songs

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
April 18, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Hermann Hesse, Friedrich Holderlin, Detlev von Liliencron, Wang Wei
    • PERFORMER
      Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rudiger Adami, Clara Schumann Quartet: Dalia Schmalenberg, Christiane Ly
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 18, 2025
    • UPC
      5060113447524
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0752
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Traum

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Ensemble: Clara Schumann Quartet

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Christoph Berner

    2. No. 2. Komm mit

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Ensemble: Clara Schumann Quartet

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Christoph Berner

    3. No. 3. Wollust

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Ensemble: Clara Schumann Quartet

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Christoph Berner

    4. No. 4. Blauer Schmetterling

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Ensemble: Clara Schumann Quartet

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Christoph Berner

    5. Etüde

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    6. Aria

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Rüdiger Adami, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    7. … im Juli 1983 …

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    8. Volo

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Alan Valotta, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    9. No. 1. —

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    10. No. 2. —

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    11. No. 3. —

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    12. 14 Variations on Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    13. Für Hannah

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    14. No. 1. Chinesisches Totengedicht

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    15. No. 2. Meiner Mutter

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    16. No. 3. Ägyptisches Totengebet

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    17. No. 4. Zitat aus Hölderlins, "Hyperion"

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Anke Vondung, Werner Heinrich Schmitt

    18. Primavera!

      Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt

      Performer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt


Werner Heinrich Schmitt, born in Mannheim in 1961, began to study the piano in boyhood, and soon started to compose as well. Since then he has earned his living as a pianist, writing music as time permitted. This first album of his works reveals a composer of considerable substance, particularly in the two moving song-cycles that book-end this album. The sensitivity and resourcefulness of Schmitt's aural imagination are confirmed in the chamber and piano pieces heard here. Some are infused with joy, others with sorrow, but they all speak a musical language that aims to speak to the listener directly.