Release Date: 10 March 2017
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063116100
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Various Composers
Description
Ins Offene – Piano Music of Modern Age:
Debussy, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Dusapin, Scelsi, Takemitsu, Gubaidulina, Pärt, Rummler - Piano Music of the Modern Age.
"With the help of a number of selected piano works (ranging from Debussy to the world premiere of the Fünf Miniaturen), I wish to show how composers have moulded this self-consuming, continually self-renewing process of modernism in highly individual and divergent ways – and how it is only through their works that openness is created.
The selection of these composers has remained necessarily subjective, as it is historically selective. This conceptually open, demanding and exacting presentation of piano works – not comprehensible in their respective conceptions and so widely differing in their respective aesthetics and styles – is, at the same time, a musically varied, richly contrasted, heterogeneous and sensual journey into the piano music of modernism. Consequently, the works presented here can only serve to illustrate a cross-section of modernism, as reflected in the individual creative processes of the composers."
Born in 1972 in Salonica (Greece) Andreas Skouras studied piano with Prof. Franz Massinger and harpsichord with Prof. Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Prof. Ketil Haugsand at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
Concert appearances, CD, radio and television productions as pianist and harpsichordist with orchestra or solo, in chamber music and Lied recitals regularly lead him throughout Europe and to festivals like "Early Music" in London, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Gidon Kremer's "Lockenhaus", "les muséiques" in Basel, "Sacrum Profanum" in Krakow, Bluval Festival, Summer Concerts between Danube and Altmuhl, MDR Music Summer as well as to the United States, where among others he has performed in the New York's Carnegie Recital Hall.
Tracklisting
Peter Pichler, Melanie Dreher, Harald Genzmer, Paul Hindemith, Paul Dessau, Henry Purcell
Isabel Alvarez, Carlos Oramas, Jose Marin, Santiago de Murcia, Juan Hidalgo, Gaspar Sanz, Juan Aran
Richard Heinrich Stein
Adam Berenson
Peter Ruzicka, Nils Monkemeyer, Carolin Widmann, Albrecht Mayer, Kris Garfitt, NDR Elbphilharmonie
Andreas Skouras, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Pascal Dusapin, Unsuk Chin, Y
Mikael Rudolfsson, Olivier Vivares, Gerard Grisey, Luciano Berio, Eloain Lovis Hubner, Bernhard Gan
John Palmer, Delphine Henriet, Barbara Maurer, Hofer Symphoniker, Alinde Quartett, Johannes Klumpp,
Tomas Vrana, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Gabor Kali
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Riccardo Chailly
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Britten Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
Tamar Halperin
Renato Criscuolo|Aldo Criscuolo
Ragna Schirmer, Hofkapelle Munchen, Rudiger Lotter
Piercarlo Sacco|Andrea Dieci
Peter Hanson (violin); Andrew Arthur (fortepiano)
