- Number
- Artist(s)
- Album Name
- Composer(s)
- Total Time
- Release Year
ARCD 025Gülsin Onay, José Serebrier, Bilkent Symphony OrchestraErkin & Khachaturian – Piano Concertos-48:512021 Turkish master pianist Gülsin Onay, who has already recorded the two piano concertos by her mentor Saygun for cpo, presents a most revealing confrontation of two masterworks from Turkey and Armenia: the compact 4-movement Piano Concerto from 1942 by Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906-72) in a decisively Turkish style, and Aram Khachaturian’s famous 1936 Piano Concerto with its enchanting Armenian flavour. The Bilkent Symphony Orchestra is led by José Serebrier, one of the few great old conductors of our time and an unsurpassed master of orchestral balance and natural shaping of melodic cantability.
Number: ARCD 025
Artist(s): Gülsin Onay, José Serebrier, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
Album Name: Erkin & Khachaturian – Piano Concertos
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 48:51
Release Year: 2021Piano: Gülsin Onay
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: José Serebrier
Recorded at: Bilkent Concert Hall, Bilkent University, Ankara, 10-14 January 2011
Engineer, recording producer: Günter Appenheimer
Final editing, mixing & mastering: Eckhard Steiger
Executive producer: Christoph Schlüren
CD released by kind permission of Bilkent University Music Faculty, 2021
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Oliver Schwamkrug, Mario Naegele)Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906–72)
Piano Concerto (1942)(first commercial recording)
- 9:45 Allegro
- 5:46 Andante
- 2:25 Scherzo
- 4:47 Andante – Allegro
Aram Khachaturian (1903–78)
Piano Concerto in D-flat (1936)- 14:43 Allegro ma non troppo e maestoso – Allegro vivace – Tempo primo
- 9:45 Andante con anima
- 9:45 Allegro brillante
ARCD 024Beth LevinPhantasmataFranz Liszt72’082024 Recorded May 25th & 26th, 2022 at The Kennedy Theater at Barton College : Liberal Arts College in Wilson, North Carolina
Recorded and mixed by Phil Valera, Cary, North Carolina
Produced by Mark Peterson, music director, emeritus, Barton College
Edited by Peter Karl, Brooklyn, New York
Liner Notes: Max Derrickson
Executive Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Artwork: Produktion Pitz
Cover Painting: Habima Fuchs
Aldilà Records
ARCD 024
Copyright 2024 Aldilà Rec.
(Gramola 98024)
Number: ARCD 024
Artist(s): Beth Levin
Album Name: Phantasmata
Composer(s): Franz Liszt
Total Time: 72’08
Release Year: 2024On 'Phantasmata', her third album for Aldilà Records, legendary pianist Beth Levin from Brooklyn juxtaposes two major works of the Romantic repertoire: Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor, whose visionary design was to become a signpost for the cyclical form as well as for 20th century symphonic music compressed into a single movement; and Mussorgsky's fairy-tale cycle 'Pictures at an Exhibition', perhaps more than any other piano work a wide-ranging essence of Russian music and at the same time a sanctuary of French Impressionists. Both works are highly virtuosic, but above all challenging as large-scale musical forms and, in the same breath, resonating self-portraits of their composers. In Beth Levin's playing, which unites in a singular way titanic profundity with the most fragile lyricism, clear structure with freedom of expression, three central pianistic schools (Gieseking, Serkin and Schnabel) flow together and are transcended into timeless presence, whereby even well-known masterpieces appear in a completely new light and enable us to experience the adventure of the unknown.
Franz Liszt (1811-86)
- 35‘54 Sonate in h-Moll (1853)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
- 1‘44 I Promenade
- 2’11 II Bydlo
- 1’06 III Promenade
- 5’07 IV Il vecchio castello
- 0’33 V Promenade
- 1’17 VI Tuileries (Dispute d’enfants après jeux)
- 2’57 VII Bydlo (Heavy ox-cart)
- 0’44 VIII Promenade
- 1’06 IX Ballet of the Unhached Chicks in their Eggs
- 2’53 X Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuyle
- 1‘43 XI Promenade
- 1’51 XII Limoges. Le Marché
- 1’40 XIII Catacombae (Sepulchrum Romanum)
- 1’43 XIV Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
- 3’50 XV Baba Yaga. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
- 5’49 XVI The Great Gate of Kiev
ARCD 022Andrea VivanetRussian Album - Andrea Vivanet-76:162021 After his fabulous Szymanowski album for Naxos, Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet recorded this album of Russian pieces between tradition and classical modernity in Tiflis. The album opens with Sergey Taneyev’s breakneck Prelude and Fugue (his late and only piano work from 1910). It is followed by four miniature cycles by the great Rimsky-Korsakov pupil Nikolai Tcherepnin in première recordings: 6 Préludes Op. 17 and 5 Morceaux Op. 18 (1900-01), and the folksong-based ‚Primitifs‘ from 1926 that are more modern in their whole attitude. The album’s second half consists of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes Op. 34 from 1933. Played with irresistible verve and charme, this is an indispensible gem for all the lovers of romantic and early-20th-century piano music.
Number: ARCD 022
Artist(s): Andrea Vivanet
Album Name: Russian Album - Andrea Vivanet
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 76:16
Release Year: 2021Studio Live Recording, Grand Hall of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia), 25 March 2021
Sound Engineer: Paul Kvatchadze
Final Mastering: Andreas Ziegler (AFZ Musikproduktion)
Booklet Notes: Martin Blaumeiser
Executive Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Photo Andrea Vivanet: Lika Baindurshvili
Sponsored by THE TCHEREPNIN SOCIETYAldilà Records ARCD 022 (Gramola 98022)
Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915)
Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor Op. 29 (1910)- 3:14 Prelude. Andante
- 4:01 Fugue. Allegro vivace e con fuoco
Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945)
Six Préludes Op. 17 (1900)
(world première recording)- 1:38 Moderato pensieroso
- 2:25 Andante con moto. Capriccioso
- 2:02 Molto sostenuto (Quasi andante)
- 1:51 Moderato con moto
- 2:36 Andantino
- 1:21 Allegro non troppo. Agitato
Nikolai Tcherepnin
Cinq Morceaux O. 18 (1901)
(world première recording)- 3:10 Mélodie. Moderato assai
- 3:04 Improvisation. Andantino tranquillo
- 2:25 Prélude. Molto adagio
- 1:50 Humorèsque. Allegretto ma tranquillo
- 4:03 Modo religioso. Andante sostenuto
Nikolai Tcherepnin
Primitifs. 12 Adaptions d’anciennes mélodies russes (1810/1926)*- 0:36 Moderato con moto
- 1:43 Andantino piacevole… pensieroso
- 0:38 Allegretto marcato
- 0:43 Andantino rubato quasi Allegretto piacevole
- 0:51 Moderato scherzando
- 0:56 Andantino
- 0:44 Allegro risoluto, leggiero
- 1:12 Molto moderato, quasi andantino
- 1:15 Allegro risoluto
- 1:49 Andantino
- 1:27 Andante
- 0:38 Presto
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75)
24 Preludes Op. 34 (1933)- 1:42 Moderato
- 0:47 Allegretto
- 1:28 Andante
- 2:17 Moderato
- 0:29 Allegro vivace
- 1:16 Allegretto
- 1:02 Andante
- 0:56 Allegretto
- 0:42 Presto
- 1:42 Moderato non troppo
- 0:44 Allegretto
- 1:06 Allegro no troppo
- 0:58 Moderato
- 2:05 Adagio
- 0:53 Allegretto
- 1:04 Andantino
- 1:27 Largo
- 0:47 Allegretto
- 1:43 Andantino
- 0:42 Allegretto furioso
- 0:48 Allegretto poco moderato
- 2:16 Adagio
- 1:12 Moderato
- 1:15 Allegretto
ARCD 021Gunter Herbig"Wherever I Go..." – Gunter Herbig plays Arvo Pärt on E Guitar-46:342021 With his transcriptions of music by Arvo Pärt, Gunter Herbig offers the direct continuation of his spiritual journey on the electric guitar that began with his enthusiastically acclaimed Gurdjieff transcriptions. The music of Arvo Pärt is reduced to the aerial purity of the subtly amplified instrument that gives it a weightlessly floating quality with seemingly endless space in seemingly eternal time dimensions. This unorthodox spiritual journey finally leads into the magical region of Arvo Pärt’s most transcribed work ’Fratres’, an inward-oriented hymn on the common origin, destiny, and future of mankind.
Number: ARCD 021
Artist(s): Gunter Herbig
Album Name: "Wherever I Go..." – Gunter Herbig plays Arvo Pärt on E Guitar
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 46:34
Release Year: 2021Transcribed for the guitar by Gunter Herbig
Guitar: Gretsch White Falcon
Amp: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III
Produced/sound/editing by Dick Le Fort
24bit/96kHz
Recorded in April 2020 at the Music Production Company in Hataitai, Wellington, New ZealandArvo Pärt (b. 1935)
- 8:59 My Heart's in the Highlands
- 4:27 Für Alina
- 3:49 Most Holy Mother of God
- 7:15 Magnificat
- 5:03 Da pacem Domine
- 4:04 Psalom
- 7:02 Pari Intervallo (prepared guitar)
- 3:58 Solfeggio
- 4:29 Für Alina (prepared guitar)
- 11:23 Fratres
ARCD 020Raquele Magalhães – Flute & Alto Flute, Joel Bardolet – Solo Violin & Concertmaster, Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae, Christoph SchlürenRESURRECTIONJohann Sebastian Bach, Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Douglas Lilburn, Paul Büttner 76’552023 'Resurrection' is a concept album of works transcribed for string orchestra, originally composed for string quartet, organ, string duo, etc. It is a composed program, tuned in key sequence and contrasts to create an organic whole. Phenomenal Brazilian flutist Raquele Magalhães and legendary Catalan violinist Joel Bardolet play with the up-and-coming Orquestra Simfónica Camera Musicae from Tarragona under Christoph Schlüren. The magnum opus is the only string quartet by the Dresden symphonist Paul Büttner (1870-1943) that is presented here in its world premiere recording - a highly dramatic, contrapuntally effective composition in cyclical form, which can unfold its symphonic qualities in the string orchestra setting. Mozart's late Fantasy for an Organ Roll is transcribed for string orchestra, as are Johann Sebastian Bach's Little Organ Fugue and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling's solemn canonic work ’As Jesus Stood by the Cross’. Bach's Piano Concerto in F minor is performed in its reconstructed original version as Violin Concerto in G minor. Raquele Magalhães plays New Zealander Douglas Lilburn's melodically enchanting Shakespeare Canzona and a tribute to solitude by Ghedini. The program also celebrates the civil courage of the masters of inner emigration Paul Büttner and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling. 'Resurrection' is a musical journey from the Baroque and Classical era through the 20th century to the new era.
This album is dedicated to the heroes of inner emigration, such as the composers Paul Büttner and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, but also to all those inspired beings of our time that are not willing to go lost in collective paranoia and blind believe in propaganda regardless of where it comes from. May the music contribute to the vertical orientation of your inner backbone!
Number: ARCD 020
Artist(s): Raquele Magalhães – Flute & Alto Flute, Joel Bardolet – Solo Violin & Concertmaster, Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae, Christoph Schlüren
Album Name: RESURRECTION
Composer(s): Johann Sebastian Bach, Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Douglas Lilburn, Paul Büttner
Total Time: 76’55
Release Year: 2023Raquele Magalhães, Flute & Alto Flute
Joel Bardolet, Solo Violin & Concertmaster
Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
Christoph Schlüren
Rec. Vila-seca (Tarragona), Auditori Josep Carreras, July 23-25, 2021
Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
First Violins:
Joel Bardolet Vilaró
Christian Torres González
Bernat Piqué Marré
Paula Aguiló Sagristà
Carles Puig Ruscalleda
Anna Roca Codinachs
Second Violins:
José Néstor Tomás Loba
Ariadna Gabarell Gratal
David Gómez Moreno
Ariana Soledad Oroño Guillen
Albert Barbeta Martí
Violas:
Núria Garcia Pastor
Gemma Pujol Coderch
Cristina Izcue Castellvi
Lidia Pascual Monedero
Cellos:
Nicolás Jesús Cobo Ramon
David Blay López
Adrià Cano Rocabayera
Double Basses:
Enric Boixadós Gómez
Eduard Arribas Montagut
My heartfelt thanks go first, of course, to my long-time friend and patron Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who always trusted me artistically, financed the whole project, and has the idealism in a remarkable way to promote the polyphonic music he loves so much beyond the work of his father. I would also like to thank: Christina Neu, Lucian Beschiu, Maximilian Rossner, Raquele Magalhães and Joel Bardolet, Jordi Mora and Tòmas Grau, Gerd Michael Herbig, Daniel Gazon, Georg Albrecht Eckle, Frank Harders-Wuthenow, Peter Kislinger, as well as Peter Voigt from Dresden, Paul Büttner's grandson, who trustfully gave me unprinted scores of his grandfather.
Christoph Schlüren, November 2022
A.R.
Aldilà Records
ARCD 020
©2023 Aldilà Rec.
(Gramola CD 98020)
Producer:
Christoph Schlüren
Sound Engineer & Recording Producer:
Enric Giné (tasso.cat)
Artwork:
Maximilian Rossner (cosimapitz.de)
aldilarecords.de
A.R.LC28016
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)/transcr. by Lucian Beschiu (b. 1986)
- 3’07 Little Fugue in G minor BWV 578 (ca. 1707/2010)
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85)/ transcr. by Lucian Beschiu
»Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund« (As Jesus Stood by the Cross)
for flute, violin & strings (1942/2020)
- 7’45 Adagio – Poco più mosso – Adagio
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in G minor (after the Piano Concerto in F minor) BWV 1056 (ca. 1738)
- 3’36 I
- 2’58 II Largo
- 3’29 III Presto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Fantasy in F minor K 608 for mechanical organ (1791)
adapted for string orchestra by Edwin Fischer (1886-1960)
- 13’18 Allegro – Andante – Allegro
Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965)
- 4’18 ’Canto, o della solitudine’ degli ’Tre Pezzi per Flauto Solo’ (1962)
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001)/transcr. by Lucian Beschiu
- 3’37 Canzona No. 1 (1943/1980) for alto flute & strings (2021)
Paul Büttner (1870-1943)
String Quartet in G minor (1916)
adapted for string orchestra by Christoph Schlüren (2017)
- 10’40 I Allegro
- 5‘43 II Interludium I. Andante
- 6‘02 III Scherzo. Allegretto
- 4‘44 IV Interludium II. Adagio
- 7’38 V Finale. Vivace con veemenza – Canone doppio. Lento – Coda
ARCD 018Gunter HerbigTristorosa - Gunter Herbig plays Villa-Lobos on E Guitar-55:412020 Gunter Herbig, Brazilian-German guitarist living in New Zealand, is well-known for his benchmark-setting performances of New Zealand guitar music by Lilburn and Farquhar for the Naxos label. His Gurdjieff transcriptions for electric guitar ’ex oriente’ on BIS Records achieved legendary status and are considered by specialists and music-lovers all over the world as superior to any of the many recordings for piano. He extended his electric guitar discovery journey with a most exemplary cross-sectional expedition of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ guitar music that leads to its final culmination in the famous Aria from ’Bachianas brasileiras’ No. 5 sung one octave lower than the original by the great samba singeress Alda Rezende. This album, and particularly the final ’Aria’, is destined to achieve cult status.
Number: ARCD 018
Artist(s): Gunter Herbig
Album Name: Tristorosa - Gunter Herbig plays Villa-Lobos on E Guitar
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 55:41
Release Year: 2020Recorded January/February 2019
at The Music Production Company in Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand
96 kHz/24 bit
Producer and sound engineer: Dick Le Fort
Microphones: AKG C4000B
Guitar: Gretsch 'White Falcon' G7593 tuned at 432Hz
Amp: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Oliver Schwamkrug, Stella Klump)- 6:16 Tristorosa (arr. G. Herbig)
Cinq Preludes
- 4:31 Prelude No. 1
- 3:01 Prelude No. 2
- 6:16 Prelude No. 3
- 3:20 Prelude No. 4
- 4:22 Prelude No. 5
Suite Popular Brasileira
- 2:57 Mazurka Choro
- 4:05 Schottische Choro
- 4:43 Valsa Choro
- 5:33 Gavotta Choro
- 5:20 Choros No. 1
(with Alda Rezende, vocal)
- 5:17 Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5Aria*
ARCD 017Symphonia Momentum, Christoph SchlürenQUINTESSENCEFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, Anton Bruckner79‘572024 The string orchestra album 'Quintessence' combines three works in a quintet formation with two violin and two viola parts to form an organic whole, in which Schwarz-Schilling provides the - harmonically modulating - bridge from Mendelssohn to Bruckner.
The title refers to the essence of five-part polyphony. Mendelssohn was the only composer to write important string orchestra works in this quintet setting with its particularly rich range of middle voices. The Introduction and Fugue in C minor (also known as his 13th String Symphony or 'Symphonic Movement') by the 14-year-old forms the final climax of his youth œuvre and unfolds the real five-part counterpoint with unprecedented density and drama.
Schwarz-Schilling's 'Pleading' is a string transcription from his late a cappella motet 'Über die Schwelle' (Over the Treshold), music of introverted, flowing lyricism that mysteriously and gracefully connects the worlds of Mendelssohn and Bruckner.
In the version for string orchestra without any soloistic interplay, Anton Bruckner's string quintet unfolds its symphonic potential, which has been unimagined in this dimension. The continuous impression of grand, expansive architecture is reinforced by the sacred-like acoustics of the recording venue, the contrasts and dark, glowing colors almost seem like a real large orchestra, adding another link to the chain of Bruckner's symphonies. It is astonishing how organically cohesive even the often criticized finale integrates into the context. We are proud to quote Rémy Ballot, a leading Bruckner conductor of our time, about these performances:
"I have never heard the Mendelssohn fugue played in such a fantastic manner. The score of the Bruckner String Quintet is decoded throughout in all its contrapuntal ramifications and realized as a living overall form where every moment is imbued with consciousness."
Symphonia Momentum, founded in 2010 by Christoph Schlüren, is an orchestra of highest individual level dedicated to the discovery of unknown masterpieces of timeless substance whose quality is brought to full fruition in reciprocal illumination with well-known masterworks. Each recording is preceded by an intensive rehearsal process and the performance of the entire program in concert. The programs are always conceived as an organic whole.
Number: ARCD 017
Artist(s): Symphonia Momentum, Christoph Schlüren
Album Name: QUINTESSENCE
Composer(s): Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, Anton Bruckner
Total Time: 79‘57
Release Year: 2024Rec. Lehrberg near Ansbach, Kornspeicher der Dorfmühle, August 28-30, 2021
Sound Engineer & Recording Producer: Andreas Ziegler
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Symphonia Momentum
First Violins:
Joel Bardolet Vilaró, Arevik Ivanyan, Cesare Zanfini Ferraresi, Luis Alfredo Montes Meneses, Gyurim Kwak
Second Violins:
Gabriel Coll Trulls, Jasper Sommer, Viona Schwaiger, Bernhard Rauch
First Violas:
Masha Kropotkina, Verena Curuti, Emiko Yuasa
Second Violas:
Miguel Ercolino, Anna Barsegjana, Annette Fritz
Cellos:
Shenghan Gao, Yerin Lee, Rebecca Deridder
Double Bass:
Raquel de la Cruz Hebrero
Our warmest thanks go to:
Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who most generously made the whole project possible
This album is dedicated to Christina Neu.
A.R.
Aldilà Records
ARCD 017
©2023 Aldilà Rec.
(Gramola CD 98017)
Producer:
Christoph Schlüren
Sound Engineer & Recording Producer:
Andreas Ziegler (afz-music.com)
Artwork:
Maximilian Rossner (cosimapitz.de)
symphoniamomentum.com
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-47)
- 8’11 Introduktion & Fuge c-moll [String Symphony No. 13 / Symphonic Movement] (1823) Grave – Allegro molto
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85)/transcr. by Lucian Beschiu (b. 1986)
- 4‘06 »Bitten« aus »Über die Schwelle« [’Pleading’ from ’Over the Treshold’] (1978/2021) Sehr ruhig und verhalten [Very calm and inhibited]
Anton Bruckner (1824-96)
Streichquintett F-Dur [String Quintet in F major] (1878-79)
adapted for string orchestra by Christoph Schlüren (2021)
- 17‘44 I Gemäßigt [Tempo moderato]
- 10‘22 II Scherzo
- 22‘29 III Adagio
- 11‘56 IV Finale
ARCD 016Rolf Schulte, Jeffrey Swann, David Levine, Heinz DeinzerThe Violin in Stravinsky’s Life - Rolf Schulte-94:142021 Rolf Schulte, German violin virtuoso living in New York, is a household name in contemporary music circles. His recordings oft he violin concertos by Schoenberg and Stravinsky are held in high esteem among connaisseurs but he is a master violinist in classical and romantic repertoire as well. ’The Violin in Stravinsky’s Life’ offers Schulte’s complete Stravinsky recordings for West German Radio (WDR) in Cologne (1976–79). Apart from Stravinsky’s original trio version of his ’Histoire du soldat’ with clarinetist Hans Deinzer this album presents an exemplary of Stravinsky’s music for violin and piano, in original versions as well as in well-known contemporary arrangements: Suite italienne, Divertimento, Duo concertant, and pieces from ’Firebird’ and ’Nightingale’, with pianists Jeffrey Swann and David Levine.
Number: ARCD 016
Artist(s): Rolf Schulte, Jeffrey Swann, David Levine, Heinz Deinzer
Album Name: The Violin in Stravinsky’s Life - Rolf Schulte
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 94:14
Release Year: 2021All recordings made at WDR Funkhaus Köln, Saal 2
4 November 1976:
Executive producer: Anne-Margret Neumann; recording producer: Leopold von Knobelsdorff; sound engineer: Dieter Frobeen
29 October 1979:
Executive producer: Schubert; recording engineer: Andreas Priemer
31 October 1979:E
Executive producer: Schubert; recording producer: Fleck; sound engineer: Andreas Beutner
5 November 1979:
Executive producer: Schubert; recording producer: Becker; sound engineer: Dieter Frobeen
Piano: Jeffrey Swann
Piano: David Levine
Clarinet: Hans Deinzer
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Oliver Schwamkrug)CD 1
Suite italienne
- 2:19 Introduzione
- 2:45 Serenata
Duo concertant (1931–32)
(Rolf Schulte & Jeffrey Swann, 29 October 1979)
Suite italienne (transcr. from Pulcinella Suite by I.S. & Samuel Dushkin)(1919–22/1933)- 3:00 Cantilène
- 2:11 EglogueI
- 3:33 Eglogue II
- 4:20 Gigue
- 3:24 Dithyrambe
(Rolf Schulte & David Levine, 4 November 1976)
3 Pieces from the ballet ’The Firebird’ (arr. I.S. & Samuel Dushkin)(1909–10/1933)- 2:19 Introduzione. Allegro moderato
- 2:45 Serenata. Larghetto
- 2:11 Tarantella. Vivace
- 3:42 Gavotta con due variazioni.
- 1:26 Scherzino. Presto alla breve
- 4:30 Minuetto e Finale. Moderato – Molto vivace
(Rolf Schulte & Jeffrey Swann, 31 October 1979)
Trio Suite from ’L’Histoire du soldat’(1918/19)- 2:59 Scherzo
- 6:50 Prélude & Ronde des Princesses. Khorovode
- 3:20 Berceuse
(Hans Deinzer, Clarinet, Rolf Schulte & Jeffrey Swann, 5 November 1979)
- 1:36 Marche du Soldat
- 2:36 Le Violon du Soldat (Scène du Soldat au ruisseau
- 2:51 Petit Concert
- 6:21 Tango – Valse – Ragtime
- 1:21 Dance du Diable
CD 2
Divertimento after the allegorical ballet ’Le Baiser de la fée’ (The Fairy’s Kiss)
- 5:15 Sinfonia. Andante – Allegro sostenuto –Andante - Vivace
- 6:10 Danses suisses. Tempo giusto
- 3:04 Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso – Doppio movimento – Tempo I
- 6:21 Pas de deux. Adagio – Variation. Allegretto grazioso – Coda. Presto
(Rolf Schulte & Jeffrey Swann, 31 October 1979)
2 Pieces from the opera ’Le Rossignol‘ (arr. I.S. & Samuel Dushkin (1909-14/1932)- 7:40 Airs du Rossignol
- 3:30 Marche Chinois
ARCD 015Pi-hsien ChenVingt Régards sur l'Enfant-Jésus - Olivier Messiaen played by Pi-hsien Chen-87:452021 Pi-hsien Chen, iconic performer of contemporary piano music by Boulez, Barraqué, Stockhausen and Cage as well as of Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, is documented live in concert in a 2005 recital with Olivier Messiaen’s large-scale masterwork ’Ving regards sur l’enfant-Jésus’, released for the first time on a double-cd in collaboration with WDR Cologne (West German Radio). A living icon of modernity performs an immortal icon of modernity.
Number: ARCD 015
Artist(s): Pi-hsien Chen
Album Name: Vingt Régards sur l'Enfant-Jésus - Olivier Messiaen played by Pi-hsien Chen
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 87:45
Release Year: 2021Recorded live in concert, St. Cäcilien, Köln, 4. Juli 2005
Executive Producer: Werner Wittersheim
Recording Producer: Sebastian Stein
Recording Engineer: Ingret Koch
Mastering. Karin Karbach
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Oliver Schwamkrug)CD 1
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (1944)- 7:20 Regard du Père: Extrêmement lent. Mystérieux, avec amour
- 3:08 Regard de l’étoile: Modéré
- 3:17 L’échange: Bien modéré
- 5:45 Regard de la Vierge: Bien modéré
- 6:38 Regard du Fils sur le Fils: Très lent
- 11:21 Par Lui tout a été fait: Modéré, presque vif
- 4:19 Regard de la Croix: Bien modéré
- 2:51 Regard des hauteurs: Vif
- 2:44 Regard du temps: Modéré
- 9:39 Regard de l’Esprit de joie: Presque vif
- 8:29 Première communion de la Vierge: Très lent
CD 2
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (1944)- 3:14 La parole toute puissante: Un peu vif
- 4:09 Noël: Très vif, joyeux
- 5:34 Regard des Anges: Très vif
- 13:25 Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus: Très lent, calme
- 3:36 Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages: Modéré
- 5:29 Regard du silence: Très modéré
- 6:58 Regard de l’Onction terrible: Modéré
- 10:09 Je dors, mais mon cœur veille: Lent
- 14:14 Regard de l’Eglise d’amour: Presque vif
ARCD 014Trio MontserratGerman Counterpoint - Trio Montserrat-70:152021 In close collaboration with Christoph Schlüren, Catalan Trio Montserrat (Joel Bardolet, violin; Miquel Córdoba, viola, Bruno Hurtado, cello) ascends the Mount Everest of string trio literature: Heinz Schubert’s extremely demanding, highly dramatic, symphonically built Chamber Sonata, flanked by the multifaceted, elegantly elaborated, late-romantic Trio Sonata in seven movements by Paul Büttner and Reinhard Schwarz-Schiling’s translucent late string trio. The program opens with three fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, arranged for string trio and with slow introductions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Paul Büttner (1870-1943) and Heinz Schubert (1908-45) are world première recordings.
Number: ARCD 014
Artist(s): Trio Montserrat
Album Name: German Counterpoint - Trio Montserrat
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 70:15
Release Year: 2021Studio Live Recording
Neutraubling, Cap à pie Studio, 12 August 2020
Artistic vision & structural preparation: Christoph Schlüren
Recording Engineer & Mastering: Andreas Ziegler, TyxArt
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Oliver Schwamkrug, Stella Klump)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)/Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
3 Fugen aus Bachs Wohltemperierten Klavier, von Mozart für Streichtrio arrangiert und mit langsamen Einleitungen versehen (KV 404a, 1782)- 8:32 Adagio – Fuga. Allegro moderato (BWV 853)
- 6:09 Adagio – Fuga. Allegro (BWV 583)
- 5:38 Adagio – Fuga. Vivace (BWV 882)
Paul Büttner (1870–1943)
Triosonate für Streichtrio [Kanons mit Umkehrungen im doppelten Kontrapunkt der Duodezime (ca. 1930)]- 2:05 Grave – Allegro
- 2:18 Andante grazioso
- 3:48 Adagio sostenuto
- 0:39 Vivace
- 3:13 Andante cantabile
- 1:30 Largo
- 2:43 Finale. Presto – Coda più animato
Heinz Schubert (1908-45)
Kammersonate für Streichtrio (1934/37)- 7:14 Un poco maestoso e sostenuto – Poco adagio – Tempo primo – Un poco allegro – Più sostenuto – Più largo
- 5:49 Chaconne [„Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein…“]. Adagio – Molto sostenuto – Allargando –
- 8:09 Fuga. Allegro, ma un poco tenuto – Sempre più animando e crescendo – Poco ritenuto – Sostenuto – Allegro – Sempre molto vivace e leggiero – Accelerando e crescendo molto – Largo tenuto – Allargando al fine
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904–85)
Streichtrio (1983)- 5:56 Rhapsodie
- 4:15 Notturno. Larghetto con intimo espressione
AHCD 013Joseph Keilberth, Agnes Giebel, Anton HeillerJoseph Keilberth & Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra-138:282022 Joseph Keilberth (1908-68) was one of Germany’s leading conductors of the 20th century. Particularly singers considered him the finest maestro of them all. He had a great sense for counterpoint and transparent structures and a strong affinity to German music of the late Romantic and expressionist era such as Reger, Pfitzner, Berg, Hindemith, or early Schoenberg. Keilberth was a regular guest conductor of Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (today’s WDR-SO), and this album presents a selection of Cologne radio recordings 1955-67 of contemporary masters. Heinrich Kaminski’s Concerto grosso (1921-23) was considered as the most complex and difficult multi-polyphonic composition of its time, which is followed by the filigree textures of the 1935 Partita by his pupil Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling. Karl Höller’s Fugue for strings (1948) and his Passacaglia and Fugue after Frescobaldi (1939) are masterworks of post-Regerian opulence between impressionism and neo-classicism. Hindemith was Keilberth’s favorite among his contemporaries and is represented here by his 6 orchestrated Songs from Rilke’s ’Das Marienleben’ with magnificent soprano Agnes Giebel and his late Organ Concerto with its dedicatee Anton Heiller as soloist.
Number: AHCD 013
Artist(s): Joseph Keilberth, Agnes Giebel, Anton Heiller
Album Name: Joseph Keilberth & Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 138:28
Release Year: 2022First commercial releases; the works by Kaminski and Höller are available for the first time
Recording Producer: Hans-Georg Daehn
Executive Producer: Karl Koch
Licensed in 2021 from WDR CologneCD 1
Heinrich Kaminski (1886-1946)
Concerto grosso for double orchestra with piano (1921-23)
(Cologne, live recording, 17 September 1956)- 6:43 Broad with great expression – attacca:
- 12:15 Allegro – attacca:
- 12:46 Fuga
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85)
Partita for Orchestra (1935)
(Concertino: Theo Giesen, violin; Paul Schröer, viola; Alwin Bauer, cello; Cologne, live recording, 30 October 1961)
- 9:23 Entrata – Allegro (non troppo mosso) – Very slowly pacing crotchets – Allegro – Allegro molto
- 4:04 Dance. Grazioso (calm half measures)
- 7:45 Canzona. Broad, solemn – Quasi andante – Broad, solemn – attacca:
- 9:36 Rondo. Poco largo – Allegretto giocoso – Allegro – Grave (Adagio) – Poco allegro – Allegro
CD 2
Karl Höller (1907-87)
(Cologne, studio recording, 7 October 1955)
- 19:26 Passacaglia and Fugue after Frescobaldi Op. 25 (1938-39)
Karl Höller (Cologne, live recording, 22 May 1964)
(Cologne, live recording, 22 May 1964)
- 9:28 Fugue for string orchestra (1948)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Six Songs from Rilke’s ‚Das Marienleben‘ for soprano and orchestra (1939/59)
(Agnes Giebel, soprano; Cologne, studio recording, 8 December 1967)- 3:06 The Birth of Mary. Lightly swaying crotchets
- 2:00 Joseph’s Suspicion. Lively half notes
- 4:05 The Birth of Christ. Broad – Lightly moving – Calmly moving – Broad
- 3:41 Rest on the Flight to Egypt. Rather lively crotchets – Calmly moving
- 4:37 Before the Passion. Very slow
- 3:21 About Mary’s Death. Moving forward – A bit calmer – Moving forward
Paul Hindemith
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (1962)
(Anton Heiller, organ; Cologne, studio, 23 October 1964)- 4:16 Crescendo. Moderato maestoso
- 5:54 Allegro assai
- 5:23 Canzonetta in triads, and two Ritornelli. Moderato
- 10:40 Phantasy on Veni Creator Spiritus. Allegro moderato – Allegro energico – Solo Cadenza – Arioso, moderato e dolce – Largamente (non troppo)
ARCD 012 Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae, Christoph SchlürenZODIAC Martin Scherber - Third SymphonyMartin Scherber, Arvo Pärt, Alessandro Marcello / Johann Sebastian Bach154:382024 "Zodiac" presents both the concert recording of the world premiere performance and the subsequent studio recording of Martin Scherber's (1907-73) Third and last Symphony on 2 CDs. It is preceded by the surprisingly related 'Festina lente' by Arvo Pärt (in the sign of Leo) and the famous Adagio for oboe and strings by Alessandro Marcello with Bach's ornamentations.
Scherber composed his Third Symphony in 1952-55 - an absolutely tonal symphony that combines the twelve signs of the zodiac in an organically coherent movement lasting 66 minutes. The entire symphony is built on a single motivic archetype, deriving inexhaustible richness from it. Each individual part in the polyphonic fabric is treated melodically in its own right; there are no classical accompaniment parts. The large orchestra always sounds transparent, even at full power. Starting from Bruckner and Wagner as recognizable precursors, the composer found here an unmistakably independent way to a compelling large-scale form developed from a fiery love of tradition - at a time when the radical avant-garde with its prohibitions of euphony and organic shaping dominated the entire field of new music. Scherber's symphony is a grandiose statement of the supra-temporal, transcendent power of tonality; stylistically, it stands confidently outside all contemporary trends. In the 1950s, this music had no chance. Scherber himself never got to hear it. But today, when the blinders have fallen, it is all the more capable of captivating and inspiring experts as well as all friends of symphonic music. It is music that needs the listener's full attention in order to make the singular experience of its transcendental coherence. Not every modernist as well as traditionalist might agree with Scherber’s tonal language and its radical avowal, as well as with the fact that here all the so-called 'last symphonists' are joined by another one of outstanding format. By the way, the zodiacal signs of 'Capricorn' and 'Cancer' - two movements for the understanding of the work - are recommended as teasers, as a kind of preparation before we experience the symphony as a whole.
Number: ARCD 012
Artist(s): Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae, Christoph Schlüren
Album Name: ZODIAC Martin Scherber - Third Symphony
Composer(s): Martin Scherber, Arvo Pärt, Alessandro Marcello / Johann Sebastian Bach
Total Time: 154:38
Release Year: 2024Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
Christoph SchlürenAuditori, Barcelona, Sala Oriol Martorell, 1 December 2019
This album is dedicated to the memory of Fred Thürmer, the great Scherber pioneer conductor.
My warmest thanks go to:
Friedemann Grau, who initiated and enabled the whole project with utmost generosity and patienceJordi Mora, former student of Sergiu Celibidache, old friend, Catalan conductor legend and conducting professor in Barcelona, who recommended the orchestra
Tomàs Grau, former student of Jordi Mora, founder and director of the orchestra and the most hospitable host imaginable
Daniel Gazon & Gerd Michael Herbig, who co-evaluated the recording master
Christina Neu, who is always thereChristoph Schlüren, 2023
Aldilà Records
ARCD 012
©2023 Aldilà Rec.
(Gramola CD 98012)Producer:
Christoph Schlüren
Sound Engineer:
Gerard Font Espí (music.metason.net)
Post Production:
Gerard Font Espí / Andreas Ziegler (afz-music.com)
Artwork:
Maximilian Rossner (cosimapitz.de)
Cover Painting:
Wolfram ErberOrquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae
Flutes:
Aleix Vaqué Mur
Pol Abellan Martínez
Anna Pujol Contreras
Oboes:
Pau Roca Carreras
Roberto Ordax Aguado
Marta Fernández Callís
Clarinets:
Lluís Casanova Martínez
Joan Roca Carreras
Sara Hernández Pons
Bassoons:
Dan-Andrei Bosinceanu
Pepa Fusté Pujadó
Pablo Villa Bulnes
Horns:
Pablo Hernández Carrasco
Jordi Guasp Boada
Raül Garrido Ciscar
Juan Miguel Marzá de la Salud
Trumpets:
Carlos Martín Frasquier
Josep Lluís López Navvaro
Guillem Rodríguez Calatayud
Trombones:
Jordi Masip Masip
Pol Vilar Serra
Joan Palacio Serra
Bass Tuba:
David Llopart Martínez
Timpani:
Pau Montané Pascual
Ferran Carceller Amorós
First Violins:
Joal Bardolet Vilaró
Christian Torres González
Bernat Piqué Marré
Ariadna Gabarell Gratal
Paula Aguiló Sagristá
Anna Roca Codinachs
Eduardo Garcia Salas
Miguel Angel Castillo Ortiz
Maria Eugenia Paniza Andino
Natalia Brzewska
Sara Balasch Lozano
Second Violins:
Cati Reus Gelabert
Bernat Bofarull Olivés
Joan Marsol Puig
Albert Barbeta Martí
Eduard Sobrado Vaos
Laura Gené Hijos
Eduard Marcet Capellà
Neus Navarrete González
Maria Pilar Serrano Rivas
Violas:
Mariona Oliu Nieto
Félix Gallego Blasco
Núria Garcia Pastor
Cristina Izcue Castellví
Elena Martínez Paz
Laura Bosch Borràs
Irene Argüello Rodríguez
Cellos:
Laia Puig Torné
Ferran Bardolet i Rifà
Nicolás Jesús Cobo Ramon
Eduard Raventós Roca
Elisa González-Pola Lucio
Daniel Oliu Nieto
Double Basses:
Eduard Arribas Montagut
Enric Boixadós Gómez
Iu Boixader Castelar
Oscar Laso Valhondo
Conductor:
Christoph Schlüren
CD 1
Studio Recording, December 2, 2019
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
- 8‘40 Festina lente (1988), In einem ruhigen Zeitmaß (In a calm tempo). Molto legato - Più lento
Martin Scherber (1907-73)
III. Symphonie h-moll (1952-55)
- 3’45 I Aries
- 6’12 II Taurus
- 3‘06 III Gemini
- 7’34 IV Cancer
- 7’39 V Leo
- 2’21 VI Virgo
- 5’02 VII Libra
- 7’13 VIII Scorpio
- 5’23 IX Sagittarius
- 5’40 X Capricorn
- 5’54 XI Aquarius
- 6’46 XII Pisces
CD 2
Live in Concert, December 1, 2019
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
- 8‘22 Festina lente (1988) In einem ruhigen Zeitmaß (In a calm tempo). Molto legato - Più lento 1
Martin Scherber (1907-73)
III. Symphonie h-moll (1952-55)
- 3’40 I Aries
- 6’19 II Taurus
- 3‘00 III Gemini
- 7’57 IV Cancer
- 7’06 V Leo
- 2’27 VI Virgo
- 5’01 VII Libra
- 6’51 VIII Scorpio
- 5’21 IX Sagittarius
- 5’49 X Capricorn
- 5’55 XI Aquarius
- 6’39 XII Pisces
ARCD 011Beth LevinHammerklavier Live - Beth Levin-72:212020 Beth Levin counts among the world’s most monumental pianists of our time. Her live in concert recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and last three sonatas are legendary. Her second album for Aldilà Records presents a live concert from Festival Baltimore 2019, comprising Handel’s Suite in D minor, Anders Eliasson’s Carosello, and – in an unsurmounted performance – Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata. "You may agree with it or not. No one plays Beethoven like Beth Levin." (Christoph Schlüren, 2013)
Number: ARCD 011
Artist(s): Beth Levin
Album Name: Hammerklavier Live - Beth Levin
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 72:21
Release Year: 2020Recorded at Festival Baltimore, Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland, 29 June 2019
Recording Engineer: Alan Wonneberger
Recording Producer: Peter Karl
Executive Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Raphael Wicki)Recorded Live in Concert 2019
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1750)Third Suite for Piano in D minor (from ’8 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin’, HWV 428, first collection, 1720)
- 01:09 Präludium. Presto
- 03:05 Allegro
- 01:59 Allemande
- 01:47 Courante
- 05:16 Air with 5 Variations
- 02:44 Presto
Anders Eliasson (1947–2013)
Carosello (Disegno No. 3 for Piano) (2005)- 09:44 Carosello (Disegno No. 3 for Piano) (2005)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 ’Hammerklavier’ (1817–18)- 12:04 Allegro
- 03:11 Scherzo. Assai vivace
- 17:10 Adagio sostenuto. Appassionato e con molto sentimento
- 14:11 Largo – Allegro risoluto
ARCD 010Violeta VicciMirror Images - Violeta Vicci-60:522021 The young London-based, Catalan-Swiss violinist and multi-instrumentalist Violeta Vicci performs a uniquely versatile recital of solo works for violin, viola, and soprano. The program’s backbone are Bach’s Partita in E and Ysaÿe’s 2nd Sonata for solo violin. Ragnar Söderlind’s early, magically melancholic Elegy for violin solo, Jean-Louis Florentz’s orientally melismatic Vocalise, and Imogen Holst’s folkloristic Suite for viola solo are world première recordings. Violeta Vicci links these compositions with improvised transitions, combining voice and string artistry, partly in overdub technique, embracing a large scale of stylistic devices.
Number: ARCD 010
Artist(s): Violeta Vicci
Album Name: Mirror Images - Violeta Vicci
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 60:52
Release Year: 2021Recorded at Space Mountain Studios, Spain, 7-12th November 2018
Recording engineer, editing, mixing, mastering: Jon Alexander
Aldilà Executive Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Artwork cover image: Alexandra Barreña
Photography: Sandra Crilo
Booklet Text: Violeta Vicci
Corrections: Helen Glaisher-Hernández
German and Spanish translations: Christoph Schlüren, Javier Barreña
Design: Daily Dialogue ( Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schönberg, Raphael Wicki, Oliver Schwamkrug)Ragnar Söderlind (b. 1945)
*World premiere recording- 03:50 Elegia II Op. 6B for Solo Violin “Adagio e rubato” (1966) *
Violeta Vicci (b.1986)
- 00:49 Improvisation I
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Partita III in E Major for Solo Violin, BWV 1006 (ca. 1720)- 03.54 Prélude’
- 02.05 ‘Loure’
- 03.14 ‘Gavotte en rondeau’
- 01.20 ‘Menuet 1’
- 00.52 ‘Menuet 2’
- 00.50 ‘Bourrée’
- 00.57 ‘Gigue’
Violeta Vicci
- 02:02 Improvisation II
Imogen Holst (1907–84)
Suite for Solo Viola (1930) *
*World premiere recording- 02:47 ‘Prelude “Quasi lento”’
- 02:19 ‘Cinquepace “Vivace – Poco meno mosso – Tempo primo”’
- 02:19 Sarabande “Andante, molto cantabile”’
- 01:52 ‘Gigue “Presto”’
Violeta Vicci
- 02:00 Improvisation III
Jean-Louis Florentz (1947-2004)
*World premiere recording- 04:33 Vocalise “Ad libitum, lointain, mystérieux” (1985) *
Violeta Vicci
- 03:26 Improvisation IV
- 01:36 Improvisation V
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Sonata in A Minor Op. 27, No. 2 “A Jacques Thibaud” (1923)- 02:40 ‘Obsession – Prelude “Poco vivace”’
- 03:01 ‘Malinconia “Poco lento, con sordino”’
- 05:01 ‘Danse des ombres “Sarabande, Lento”’
- 03:37 ‘Les furies “Allegro furioso”’
Violeta Vicci
- 02:49 Improvisation VI
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Suite No. 5 in C Minor for Solo Cello, BWV 1011 (1717 - 1723)- 03:01 IV. ‘Sarabande’
ARCD 009Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Christoph SchlürenDie Kunst der Fuge – Triple Completion-138:392020 A unique combination of the complete fugues from Johann Sebastian Bach’s ’Art of the Fugue’ with three completions of the unfinished final fugue by Donald Francis Tovey, Karl Hermann Pillney and Kalevi Aho and two B-A-C-H interludes by Robert Schumann and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling. Performed by the Salzburg Chamber Soloists in pure string orchestra polyphony, conducted by the leading counterpoint exegete Christoph Schlüren.
Number: ARCD 009
Artist(s): Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Christoph Schlüren
Album Name: Die Kunst der Fuge – Triple Completion
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 138:39
Release Year: 2020Including 3 completions of the unfinished final fugue by Tovey, Pillney and Aho linked by 2 B-A-C-H Fugues by Robert Schumann and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling
Salzburg Chamber Soloists
Dir. Christoph SchlürenCover Sculpture: Fritz Klein (civil name: Gottfried Klein, 1924-83): ’Der Horchende’ (’The Listener’, mid-1950s; fruitwood around lead sheet, eyes carved and framed with lead)
Live Recording: Odeïon, Waldorf Campus, Salzburg, 25 October 2019 (Original Sound, Original Dynamics)
Sound Engineer (Analogue Equipment): Johannes Brüning
Digital Transfer: Thomas Wersche
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Design: Daily Dialogue (Max Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg)CD 1
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Die Kunst der Fuge (1742/50)- 3:54 Contrapunctus Ia 4 voci
- 4:18 Contrapunctus II a 4 voci
- 3:41 Contrapunctus IIIa 4 voci
- 4:18 Contrapunctus Va 4 voci
- 5:38 Contrapunctus VI a 4 voci in Stylo Francese
- 4:25 Contrapunctus VII a 4 voci per Augment e Diminut
- 5:57 Contrapunctus VIII a 3voci
- 2:37 Contrapunctus IXa 4 voci alla Duodecima
- 4:25 Contrapunctus Xa 4 voci alla Decima
- 6:48 Contrapunctus XIa 4 voci
- 12:58 Contrapunctus XIVa 4 voci, Fuga a 3 soggetti, unfinished
- 3:42 Choral ‚Vor deinen Thron tret‘ ich hiermit‘
CD 2
Die Kunst der Fuge(1742/50) with completions of the final fugue
- 02:39 Contrapunctus XIIa 4 voci (Mirror Fugue)–Rectus
- 02:31 Contrapunctus XIIa 4 voci (Mirror Fugue)–Inversus
- 19:41 Contrapunctus XIVa 4 voci, Fuga a 4 soggetti, completed by Karl Hermann Pillney (1937/74)
- 04:56 Robert Schumann (1810-56) Orgelfuge über den Namen Bach in g-moll op. 60/3a 4 voci, transcr. by Dan Turcanu (1845/2019)
- 17:52 J.S. Bach, Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus XIVa 4 voci, Fuga a 4 soggetti, completed by Donald Francis Tovey (1931)
- 3:55 Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85) Studie über B-A-C-H a 3 voci (1985)
- 18:08 J.S. Bach, Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus XIVa 4 voci, Fuga a 4 soggetti, completed by Kalevi Aho (2012)
ARCD 008Pi-hsien ChenSchubert Grandes Sonates - Pi-hsien Chen-221:222018 Taiwanese master pianist Pi-hsien Chen is a household name in the circles of Avantgarde music. Her recordings of the 3 Sonatas by Pierre Boulez, of Stockhausen’s and Cage’s piano music are considered as peak performances by most commentators. She is also a very renowned performer of Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart and Beethoven. Here she presents four of the last five sonatas by Franz Schubert that are described by Georg Albrecht Eckle as ”grandes sonates” in the highly sophisticated liner notes where he also explains why the final sonata in B-flat is not counted as a ”grande sonate”. Pi-hsien Chen’s fundamentally unsentimental but deeply lyrical Schubert style is unique in its own right.
Number: ARCD 008
Artist(s): Pi-hsien Chen
Album Name: Schubert Grandes Sonates - Pi-hsien Chen
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 221:22
Release Year: 2018Pi-hsien Chen, Piano
Recorded in Altenbach, June 2016 & October 2017
Sound Engineer: Jakob Haendel
Piano Technician: Hans Giese (Steinway D 1984)
Liner Notes: Georg Albrecht Eckle
Cover Painting: Christoph Gesing
Artwork: Daily Dialogue (Malin Schoenberg)Aldilà Records ARCD 008, 2018 (Gramola 98008)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
CD 1
Sonata in E-flat D 568 (1817)
- 9:44 Allegro moderato
- 6:14 Andante molto
- 4:36 Menuett. Allegretto
- 10:31 Allegro moderato
Sonata in A minor D 845 (1825)
- 12:35 Moderato
- 12:11 Andante poco mosso
- 8:32 Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio. Un poco più lento – Scherzo da capo
- 6:05 Rondo. Allegro vivace
CD 2
Sonata in D D 850 (1825)
- 8:57 Allegro vivace
- 11:27 Con moto
- 10:18 Scherzo. Allegro vivace
- 8:43 Rondo. Allegro moderato
Sonata in G D 894 (1826)
- 17:50 Molto moderato e cantabile
- 7:40 Andante
- 4:50 Menuett. Allegro moderato
- 8:30 Allegretto
CD 3
Sonata in C minor D 958 (1828)
- 10:55 Allegro
- 6:59 Adagio
- 3:25 Menuett. Allegro
- 10:12 Allegro
Sonata in A D 959 (1828)
- 16:24 I Allegro
- 7:35 II Andantino
- 5:02 III Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Trio. Un poco più lento – Scherzo da capo
- 12:09 Rondo. Allegretto
ARCD 007Hugo SchulerGoldberg+ - Hugo Schuler-156:092015 Argentinian pianist Hugo Schuler, a renowned expert in the polyphonic art of Johann Sebastian Bach, presents on his debut double album a two-part project: First, he combines some preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier with 20th century masterworks by the great South German renewer of counterpoint Heinrich Kaminski and his late pupil Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling in world première recordings. The album concludes with a towering performance of the Goldberg Variations.
Number: ARCD 007
Artist(s): Hugo Schuler
Album Name: Goldberg+ - Hugo Schuler
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 156:09
Release Year: 2015Recorded in March 2013 in Vicenza, Centro Studi Ludwig Stein
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Engineers: Ladislav Krajcovic & Jan Machut
Piano Tuner: Tiziano Ferrari (Fazioli)
Liner Notes: Hugo Schuler & Christoph Schlüren
Photo: Maximilian Rossner
Artwork: Daily Dialogue (Malin Schoenberg)Aldilà Records ARCD 007, 2017 (Gramola 98007)
CD 1
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-67)
- 3:16 Toccata in G FbWV 103
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- 11:54 Prelude & Fugue in B-flat minor from ’Wohltemperiertes Klavier, Buch I‘
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85)
- 05:25 Preludio cantando e Fuga (1985) (world première recording)
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling
- 3:41 Studie über B-A-C-H (world première recording)
Johann Sebastian Bach
- 11:18 Prelude & Fugue in E-flat minor from ’Wohltemperiertes Klavier, Buch I’
Heinrich Kaminski (1886-1946)
- 10:20 Prelude & Fugue in F minor from ‚Klavierbuch III‘ (1935) (world première recording)
Heinrich Kaminski
- 09:30 Prelude & Sarabande in D minor from ‚Klavierbuch III‘ (1935) (world première recording)
Johann Sebastian Bach
- 08:00 Prelude & Fugue in G-sharp minor from ’Wohltemperiertes Klavier, Buch II’
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling
Piano Sonata (1968)- 05:36 Vivace – Allegro molto vivace – Presto
- 04:26 Larghetto cantabile – [attacca]
- 3:49 Vivace – Allegro molto – Calmo – Presto – Vivace (world première recording)
CD 2
Johann Sebastian Bach
- 78:32 Aria with Variations BWV 988 (Goldberg Variations, 1741)
ARCD 006Lucas BrunnertGateway into the Beyond - Lucas Brunnert-79:472020 Born in Beethoven’s home town Bonn, Lucas Brunnert presents a through-composed violin solo recital centered around two well-known sonatas by Bach and Hindemith. Includes world première recordings of: the large, highly elaborate, free-tonal sonata by Eduard Erdmann, the famous Baltic-German pianist and symphonist; the tragically melancholic war-fantasia by Heinz Schubert; and the densely built, sonorous prelude by Edmund von Borck (Schubert and Borck fell in Second World War). Lucas Brunnert plays with total structural understanding and absolute command of his instrument.
Number: ARCD 006
Artist(s): Lucas Brunnert
Album Name: Gateway into the Beyond - Lucas Brunnert
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 79:47
Release Year: 2020A German Album for Violin Solo
Recorded in Schloss Laudon, Hadersdorf, Wien-Penzing, 17 & 18 December 2014
Engineers: Ladislav Krajcovic, Jan Matus
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Photography: Maximilian Rossner
Design: Daily Dialogue (Maximilian Schachtner, Malin Schoenberg, Raphael Wicki)Eduard Erdmann (1896-1958)
Sonate für Violine allein op. 12 (1920-21)- 10:45 Ruhig –Tempo rubato
- 05:27 Scherzo – Trio. Einfach wie eine Volksweise – Scherzo da capo
- 03:11 Langsam
- 04:06 Lebendig
Edmund von Borck (1906–44)
Präludium für Violine solo op. 11 Nr. 2 (1935)- 03:24 Andante sostenuto
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
2. Sonate für Violine solo a-moll BWV 1003 (1720)- 04:00 Grave
- 09:16 Fuga
- 05:14 Andante
- 06:26 Allegro
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sonate für Violine solo op. 31 Nr. 2 (1924)- 2'40 Leicht bewegte Viertel
- 3'55 Ruhig bewegte Achtel
- 1'55 Gemächliche Viertel (pizzicato)
- 5‘45 Fünf Variationen über das Lied ‚Komm, lieber Mai‘ von Mozart
Heinz Schubert (1908–45)
Phantasie für Geige allein (1943)- 06:25 Præludium. Appassionato
- 06:25 Toccata. Allegro giusto e tenuto, rubato – Vivace assai – Tempo di preludio – Allargando al largo
ARCD 005Beth LevinInward Voice - Beth Levin-73:302015 1838 – 1973 - 1828
Studio Live Recording
Having listened to her phenomenal live recording of Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas, Christoph Schlüren asked legendary Brooklyn-based pianist Beth Levin to record a first album for Aldilà Records in Vienna. Levin, who was taught by masters such as Marian Filar, Rudolf Serkin, and Leonard Shure, responded with a riveting program confronting Schumann’s ’Kreisleriana’ and Schubert’s late Sonata in C minor D 958. Between these towering architectures she inserted Anders Eliasson’s ’Versione’, a dramatic little piece of improvisatory attitude and inscrutably organic coherence, and herewith started her series of Eliasson recordings.
Number: ARCD 005
Artist(s): Beth Levin
Album Name: Inward Voice - Beth Levin
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 73:30
Release Year: 2015rec. Wien-Hietzing (Vienna), Wiener Militärpfarre/Ehrensaal der Österreichischen Streitkräfte (Hall of Honours of the Austrian Armed Forces), Bösendorfer Grand Piano 225 (1984), 7 October 2014
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Engineers: Ladislav Krajcovic, Jan Machut
Piano Tuner: Christoph Bartl
Photography: Maximilian Rossner
Artwork: Paul Ole BallhausRobert Schumann (1810-56)
- 32:38 Kreisleriana. Fantasien op. 16
Anders Eliasson (1947-2013)
- 06:54 Versione per pianoforte (1973) (world première recording)
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonate c-moll D 958 (1828)- 08:52 Allegro
- 12:37 Adagio
- 03:10 Menuett. Allegro
- 10:17 Allegro
ARCD 004Symphonia Momentum, Rebekka Hartmann, Christoph SchlürenSymphonia Momentum - Declamatory Counterpoint -78:552014 In memoriam Anders Eliasson
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling’s String Symphony after his only string quartet in F minor from 1932 is the main work in this versatile string orchestra program. The 40-minute work in three movements is a timeless continuation of the advanced counterpoint from Bach via late Beethoven and Bruckner to his teacher Heinrich Kaminski. Conducted by Christoph Schlüren, other highlights include (in live recordings) Arvo Pärt’s visionary ’Orient & Occident’, the world première performance of Peter Michael Hamel’s memorial piece ’Ulisono’, and Rebekka Hartmann’s phenomenal performance of Anders Eliasson’s ’In medias’ for violin solo.Number: ARCD 004
Artist(s): Symphonia Momentum, Rebekka Hartmann, Christoph Schlüren
Album Name: Symphonia Momentum - Declamatory Counterpoint
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 78:55
Release Year: 2014rec. Berlin, Großer Sendesaal Rundfunkhaus Nalepastraße, 21-22 November 2010 (Live in Concert: 20 November)
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Sound Engineer: Jindrich Maßner
Photography: Maximilian Rossner
Artwork: Paul Ole BallhausReinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85)
Symphony for Strings (String Quartet) in F minor (1932)- 13:09 Introduktion & Fuge
- 14:34 Adagio
- 12:56 Finale
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
1st movement from String Quartet in C K 465 ‚Dissonance’ (1785)- 9:00 Adagio - Allegro (live recording)
Peter Michael Hamel (b. 1947)
- 7:24 ‚Ulisono’ for 14 solo strings in memoriam Ulrich Stranz (2010) (Helmut Nicolai, viola solo) (world première recording) (live recording)
Anders Eliasson (1947-2013)
- 6:54 ‚In medias’ for violin solo (1971) (Rebekka Hartmann, violin) (world première recording
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
- 8:13 Orient & Occident (2000) (live recording)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- 6:45 ‚Cavatina’ from String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (1825) (live recording)
AHCD 003Sergio FiorentinoSergio Fiorentino - Live in Concert on Érard-134:302012 For Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, his colleague Sergio Fiorentino (1927-98) was ”il solo altro pianista”, and Horowitz and Lonquich are among his famous admirers. Thanks to Ernst Lumpe, the great enabler of Sergio Fiorentino’s late second career, we got these tapes of a recital Fiorentino played in Münster in 1994, including Bach’s 5th French Suite, Franck’s ’Prélude, Aria et Final’ and Schubert final Sonata in B-flat, as well as encores by Chopin, Schubert, and the ’Rosenkavalierwalzer’ by Strauss/Singer. The straight-strung ’exhibition grand’ Érard from around 1880 is of particularly striking effect in Franck’s music that sounds more natural than on any later instrument. The second CD ends with a 1955 BBC studio live recording of Rachmaninoff’s 4th Piano Concerto from Edinburgh that was later erased by the BBC but was rediscovered by Ernst Lumpe who prepared this stunning document for its first release. This is the first album in the ’Aldilà Historic’ series.
Number: AHCD 003
Artist(s): Sergio Fiorentino
Album Name: Sergio Fiorentino - Live in Concert on Érard
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 134:30
Release Year: 2012CD 1 + CD 2
Münster/Westfalen, Erbdrostenhof, 20 June 1994
Recording: Ernst LumpeSergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Sergio Fiorentino (Pf)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, dir. Ian Whyte
BBC Studio Live Performance
Edinburgh, BBC Hall, 22 June 1965
(provided by Ernst Lumpe; original tape has been erased by the BBC)
Digital Remastering: Jindrich MaßnerCD 1
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Französische Suite Nr. 5 G-Dur BWV 815- 3:08 Allemande
- 1:36 Courante
- 6:02 Sarabande
- 1:11 Gavotte
- 1:23 Bourrée
- 3:50 Loure
- 3:44 Gigue
César Franck (1822-90)
Prélude, Aria et Final- 11:52 Prélude
- 8:32 Aria. Lento
- 8:36 Final
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- 4:48 Impromptu Es-Dur op. 90 Nr. 2
CD 2
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonate B-Dur D 960- 15:58 Molto moderato
- 10:16 Andante sostenuto
- 4:22 Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza
- 9:06 Allegro, ma non troppo
Frédéric Chopin (1810-49)
- 4:50 Valse Es-Dur op. 18
- 3:15 Valse cis-moll op. 64 Nr. 2
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- 6:14 Rosenkavalierswalzer (arr. Otto Singer / S. Fiorentino)
Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40- 9:48 Allegro vivace – Moderato – Tempo primo
- 9:26 Largo
- 09:02 Allegro vivace – A tempo meno mosso – Tempo primo
ARCD 002Ottavia Maria MaceratiniUntitled - Ottavia Maria Maceratini-66:222012 Ottavia Maria Maceratini’s second album ’Untitled’ combines three main works by Robert Schumann with two French bird-interludes: Rameau’s timeless ’Rappel des oiseaux’ and Ravel’s mysterious ’Oiseaux tristes’ with its underlying valse-metre. In Schumann’s G-minor Sonata Ottavia Maria Maceratini offers a ride on knife’s edge without losing the clear structure and form. The Symphonic Etudes with their highly contrasting variations are tied together in a truely symphonic development, and the final ’Faschingsschwank in Wien’ takes no prisoners. Legendary Munich critic Beate Kayer compared these performances with Clara Haskil, and the unorthodox album was nominated for the ICMA awards.
Number: ARCD 002
Artist(s): Ottavia Maria Maceratini
Album Name: Untitled - Ottavia Maria Maceratini
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 66:22
Release Year: 2012Recorded München, Musikhochschule, Großer Saal, 20 May 2012
Sound engineer: Jindrich Maßner / Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Photos: Maximilian Rossner / Artwork: Alexis ZurflühRobert Schumann (1810-56)
Klaviersonate g-moll op. 22 (1830-37)- 4:36 So rasch wie möglich – Schneller – Noch schneller
- 5:12 Andantino. Getragen
- 1:27 Scherzo. Sehr rasch und markiert
- 5:03 Rondo. Presto – Prestissimo – Immer schneller und schneller
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
- 3:31 Le rappel des oiseaux (from ‚Pièces de clavecin’, 2ème livre, 1724)
Robert Schumann
Études Symphoniques op. 13 (1833/52)- 1:28 Thema. Andante
- 1:15 Var. I Un poco più vivo
- 2:31 Var. II Marcato il canto
- 1:14 Var. III Vivace
- 1:00 Var. IV
- 1:28 Var. V
- 0:53 Var. VI Agitato
- 1:10 Var. VII Allegro molto
- 2:20 Var. VIII Sempre marcatissimo
- 0:38 Var. IX Presto possibile
- 1:19 Var. X Con energia sempre
- 2:12 Var. XI Con espressione
- 6:09 Finale. Allegro brillante
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- 4:32 Oiseaux tristes (from ‚Miroirs’, 1904-05)
Robert Schumann
Faschingsschwank aus Wien. Fantasiebilder op. 26 (1839)- 8:02 Allegro. Sehr lebhaft
- 2:27 Romanze. Ziemlich langsam
- 2:07 Scherzino
- 1:53 Intermezzo. Mit größter Energie
- 3:51 Finale. Höchst lebhaft
ARCD 001Ottavia Maria MaceratiniOne Cut - Ottavia Maria Maceratini-79:392012 Ottavia Maria Maceratini received her main pianistic impulses from Eliso Virsaladze and was sustainably supported by Gidon Kremer. With the DSO she gave the German première of John Foulds’ revolutionary piano concerto ’Dynamic Triptych’ in Berlin. Her debut album ’One Cut’, recorded with only one little edit, was the Aldilà Records debut as well. Including the première recording of the expressionist Notturno tempestoso from Heinz Tiessen’s ’Nature Trilogy’, this album is a bold journey through the history of piano music from Domenico Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and Debussy to John Foulds’ wildly ornamentic ’April-England’. This album was enthusiastically acclaimed and described as a magnificent bouquet of most beautiful surprises.
Number: ARCD 001
Artist(s): Ottavia Maria Maceratini
Album Name: One Cut - Ottavia Maria Maceratini
Composer(s): -
Total Time: 79:39
Release Year: 2012Recorded Live in München, Musikhochschule, Großer Saal, 29 November 2011
Sound Engineer: Jindrich Maßner
Producer: Christoph Schlüren
Photos & Artwork: Maximilian RossnerDomenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- 5:45 Sonata in fa minore L.118/K.466/P.501
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
- 15:29 Nine Variations on a Theme by N. Dezède «Lison dormait» K 264 (1778
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2 ’Sonata quasi Fantasia’ (”Moonlight”, 1801)
- 6:35 Adagio sostenuto
- 2:05 Allegretto
- 5:11 Presto agitato
Frédéric Chopin (1810-49)
- 4:57 Nocturne in B-flat minor Op. 9 No. 1 (1831)
Heinz Tiessen (1887-1971)
- 10:50 Notturno tempestoso (final movement from ’Eine Natur-Trilogie‘ Op. 18, 1913) (world première recording)
Robert Schumann (1810-56)
- 2:51 ”Träumerei” from ’Kinderscenen’ Op. 15 (1838)
John Foulds (1880-1939)
- 7:12 ”April-England” Op. 48 No. 1
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- 5:40 «Clair de lune» from ’Suite bergamasque’ (1890/1905)
Franz Liszt (1811-86)
- 8:30 Tarantella from ’Venezia e Napoli’ (Années de Pèlerinage II – Italie, 1859)
Robert Schumann / transcr. Franz Liszt
- 3:35 ’Widmung’ (ed. 1849)