Release Date: 28 October 2022
Label: Querstand
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4025796021028
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Release Date: 28 October 2022
Label: Querstand
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4025796021028
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Description
For his debut album, the Leipzig-based pianist Hannes Pohlit has recorded rare works of the virtuoso piano-repertoire on the Bluthner grand piano. The recordings took place in 2021 in the Media Campus Villa Ida (Leipzig) and were sponsored by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig.
Hans Werner Henze's (1926 – 2012) "Lucy Escott Variations", dedicated to the memory of a historical opera-singer, pay homage to the elegance of the Italian Belcanto.
George Enescu's (1881 – 1955) first Piano Sonata explores the dark colours of Romanian soul-landscapes.
Franz Liszt's (1811 – 1886) most famous organ work "Fantasy and Fugue on the choral 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'" was performed at the inauguration of the great organ in the Merseburg Cathedral. In the transcription for piano by Ferruccio Busoni (1866 – 1924), the pianist shows the great variations of timbres Blüthner Aliquot grand piano can provide, from the highly expressive fantasy to the roaring fugue, and in the meditative Adagio gives space for the warm, vocal timbres of the instrument.
Tracklisting
Horst Wolf
Pieter van Dijk
Mirella Hagen, Tobias Berndt, Frank-Immo Zichner
Mechthild Winter
Maria Ladurner, Martin Riccabona, cappella Argentina
Kristin Henneberg, Susanne Rabbach, Andreas Hartmann
Juliane Laake, Ensemble Art d'Echo
Jean-Michel Douiller
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs