Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Werner Heinrich Schmitt: Piano Works, Chamber Music & Songs (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 1, Traum (Live)
02. 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 2, Komm mit (Live)
03. 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 3, Wollust (Live)
04. 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 4, Blauer Schmetterling (Live)
05. Etüde for Piano
06. Aria for Cello & Piano
07. ...im Juli 1983... for Piano
08. Volo for Clarinet & Piano
09. 3 Pictures for Piano: No. 1, —
10. 3 Pictures for Piano: No. 2, —
11. 3 Pictures for Piano: No. 3, —
12. 14 Variations on "Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein" for Clarinet Trio
13. Für Hannah for Piano
14. Memoriae: No. 1, Chinesisches Totengedicht (Live)
15. Memoriae: No. 2, Meiner Mutter (Live)
16. Memoriae: No. 3, Ägyptisches Totengebet (Live)
17. Memoriae: No. 4, Zitat aus Hölderlins "Hyperion" (Live)
18. Primavera! for Piano

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.

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