Heinz Winbeck, Ines Lütge, Tobias PM Schneid, Leopold Mozart Quartett, Andreas Kirpal - Winbeck - Lütge - Schneid: Chamber Music (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Blick in den Strom
02. Beschriebene Blätter
03. Poco a poco ...

CD2
01. I zu: R. Schumann op. 35, Nr. 1 Lust der Sturmnacht
02. Kommentar zu I (Schumann-Kommentar)
03. II zu: R. Schumann op. 96, Nr. 1 Nachtlied
04. III zu: R. Schumann op. 39, Nr. 5 Mondnacht, Nr. 9 Wehmut und Nr. 10 Zwielicht
05. IV zu: F. Schubert Die Götter Griechenlands, D 677, 2. Fassung
06. Heiter … Einsam … Leise …

This album paints a portrait of an artistic cosmos characterised by radical subjectivity, existential urgency and an uncompromising dialogue with tradition. At its centre is Heinz Winbeck (1946–2019), one of the most idiosyncratic German composers of his generation – a maverick between Romanticism and Modernism, an expressionist in an era of serialism, a symphonist against the zeitgeist. His chamber music, long overshadowed by his monumental symphonies, proves here to be the key to his thinking.

Winbeck's three works mark decisive turning points in his oeuvre. Poco a poco … (1973) documents the discovery of his own language: from the smallest seeds, an inexorable process unfolds, culminating in an oppressive Schubertian cipher – death and inevitability become audible. The string quintet Blick in den Strom (1981), inspired by Nikolaus Lenau, marks the beginning of Winbeck's mature phase and combines manic movement with a choral, exhausted calm. With Heiter … Einsam … Leise … (1996), based on Georg Trakl, Winbeck's subjective expressionism reaches an extreme point: an existential borderline experience between decay, scream and disturbing simplicity – at the same time the prelude to a long creative crisis and several years of silence.

The album also draws connections to two composers who have influenced Winbeck's approach: his students Tobias PM Schneid and Ines Lütge. Schneid's cycle Torso – Fragment – Kommentar is a composed interpretation of songs by Schumann and Schubert. In a relentless deconstruction, he transforms romantic images of nature into a contemporary manifesto about loss and the destruction of our natural resources. Beauty appears fragile here, memory becomes an accusation.

Ines Lütges' string quartet Beschriebene Blätter is a personal farewell to her teacher. In a highly concentrated form, she intertwines contrapuntal rigour, tonal sensuality and expressive exploration. Echoes of Beethoven and Bach become fragments of memory – music as an open, unanswerable inner question.

This demanding programme is interpreted by the Leopold Mozart Quartet and the outstanding soloists Luise von Garnier (mezzo-soprano), Susanne Gutfleisch (cello) and Andreas Kirpal (piano), who impress with their great tonal precision and emotional depth.

Winbeck – Lütge – Schneid: Chamber Music is more than an album: it is a powerful document of artistic authenticity, awareness of tradition and the courage to pursue uncompromising intensity.

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