06/2007
This month I recommended Debussy's Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano - Vol. V. This CD completes the CD series Works for Piano by Claude Debussy played by the American pianist Nina Tichman. This fifth CD focusses on the second book of Préludes. Themes which moved Debussy in a human way are encircled and appear again and again, for example portraits.
05/2007
This month I recommended Shadows & Smiles by Rainer Brüninghaus and Manfred Schoof.
"Calm and freedom are the greatest goods." The famous jazz musician Manfred Schoof (trumpet and flügelhorn) and Rainer Brüninghaus (piano, keyboards) like
04/2007
This month I recommended Master Singers by Walter Tilgner.
With this CD, Walter Tilgner presents some of the master singers of the bird world - Skylark, Nightingale, Thrush Nightingale, Song Thrush, Blackbird and Golden Oriole. Which of them has the loveliest song is a question which can probably never be answered satisfactorily.
02/2007
This month I recommended Music & Graphic by John Cage.
Are we now in a position to experience within ourselves every kind of music as a harmonious system? In this case there would be only one music existing independent of the composer and the notation. Is it then the case, that the responsibility for the music has not only been shifted from the composer to the performer, but even further to the listener? The person who listens to this record will have to decide.
01/2007
This month I recommended Pictures at an Exhibition - The Piano Concerto by Modest Mussorgskij. A French critic wrote about Emile Naoumoff's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition: "When he took hold of this mythical work, Naoumoff forgot the arrangements of a Ravel or an Ashkenazy and transformed it triumphantly into
12/2006
This month I recommended Moritz Eggert's Hämmerklavier. It is a journey, and the title of the first piece reveals where the journey leads: "Into the open". During the course of the work the pianist and composer leaves things behind, throws off what restricts him, what limits him. The listener is observing an escape artist
11/2006
This month I recommended Zimmermann: Metamorphose - Zimmermann’s musical ideas have always circled around a musical reality which could not be achieved within stylistic or formal constraints. This CD brings three pieces of occasional music together with the composition which laid the groundwork for the “linguistic compositions” of Zimmermann’s Late Period: the highly serialized cantata "Omnia tempus habent".
