Zimmermann: Complete Works for Piano Eduardo Fernández

• Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918 - 1970): 3 Frühe Klavierstücke:
• 1 3 Frühe Klavierstücke: No. 1, Scherzettino 02:42
• 2 3 Frühe Klavierstücke: No. 2, Intermezzo 03:25
• 3 3 Frühe Klavierstücke: No. 3, Fugato 02:16
• Extemporale:
• 4 Extemporale: I. Präludium 03:25
• 5 Extemporale: II. Invention 01:16
• 6 Extemporale: III. Siciliano 03:07
• 7 Extemporale: IV. Bolero 04:07
• 8 Extemporale: V. Finale 01:59
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann:
• 9 Capriccio 11:25
• Enchiridion I:
• 10 Enchiridion I: I. Introduktion 02:03
• 11 Enchiridion I: II. Ekloge 03:12
• 12 Enchiridion I: III. Rondino 00:50
• 13 Enchiridion I: IV. Bourrée 00:49
• 14 Enchiridion I: V. Meditation 04:00
• 15 Enchiridion I: VI. Aria 01:37
• 16 Enchiridion I: VII. Estampida 01:12
• 17 Enchiridion I: VIII. Toccata 01:34
• Enchiridion, Appendix:
• 18 Enchiridion, Appendix: I. Intermezzo 01:46
• 19 Enchiridion, Appendix: II. L'après-midi d'un Puck 00:48
• 20 Enchiridion, Appendix: III. Hommage à Johann Strauss 00:43
• Enchiridion II "Exerzitien":
• 21 Enchiridion II "Exerzitien": I. Vigil 02:21
• 22 Enchiridion II "Exerzitien": II. Hora 01:44
• 23 Enchiridion II "Exerzitien": III. Ostinato 01:12
• 24 Enchiridion II "Exerzitien": IV. Matutin 02:13
• 25 Enchiridion II "Exerzitien": V. Imagination 01:51
• Konfigurationen:
• 26 Konfigurationen: I. — 01:04
• 27 Konfigurationen: II. — 01:16
• 28 Konfigurationen: III. — 00:44
• 29 Konfigurationen: IV. — 00:32
• 30 Konfigurationen: V. — 01:17
• 31 Konfigurationen: VI. — 01:31
• 32 Konfigurationen: VII. — 00:52
• 33 Konfigurationen: VIII. — 01:21
• Total Runtime 01:10:14

Info for Zimmermann: Complete Works for Piano

It was in the 1960s, with the opera Die Soldatenand his Requiem füreinenjungen Dichter, that Bernd Alois Zimmermann became known as one of the leading composers of the German post-war generation. These and other works from the period were examples of what the composer himself called musical pluralism -a highly individual collage-like technique involving quotations and superimposed metres, rhythms and time levels. The works on the present disc -Zimmermann's complete production for solo piano -predate this, however.

Composed over a period of only 17 years, they trace a journey which begins in a neo-classicism à la Hindemith -as radical an idiom as a young student at the Cologne University for Music could adopt during the Nazi regime. After serving in the war, Zimmermann worked as a freelance composer for the radio, theatre and television, and this has left a trace in both Extemporale and Capriccio, which weaves together seven traditional children's songs. In Enchiridion IIwe begin to clearly hear the influence of Schoenbergian twelve-tone technique, which a few years later, in Konfigurationen, has blossomed into serialism, with its subtle gradations of dynamics, articulation and rhythm. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's death in 1970, the acclaimed Spanish pianist Eduardo Fernández makes his first appearance on BIS, showing us little known aspects of the composer.

Eduardo Fernandez, piano

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