Werner Heinrich Schmitt: Piano Works, Chamber Music & Songs Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet
Album info
Album-Release:
2025
HRA-Release:
18.04.2025
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Composer: Werner Heinrich Schmitt (1961)
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- Werner Heinrich Schmitt (b. 1961): 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse:
- 1 Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 1, Traum (Live) 04:58
- 2 Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 2, Komm mit (Live) 02:20
- 3 Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 3, Wollust (Live) 01:43
- 4 Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 4, Blauer Schmetterling (Live) 01:29
- Etüde for Piano:
- 5 Schmitt: Etüde for Piano 02:31
- Aria for Cello & Piano:
- 6 Schmitt: Aria for Cello & Piano 05:38
- ...im Juli 1983…:
- 7 Schmitt: ...im Juli 1983… 05:04
- Volo for Clarinet & Piano:
- 8 Schmitt: Volo for Clarinet & Piano 03:53
- Three Pictures for Piano:
- 9 Schmitt: Three Pictures for Piano: No. 1, – 05:55
- 10 Schmitt: Three Pictures for Piano: No. 2, – 01:35
- 11 Schmitt: Three Pictures for Piano: No. 3, – 01:11
- 14 Variations on "Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein" for Clarinet, Cello & Piano:
- 12 Schmitt: 14 Variations on "Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein" for Clarinet, Cello & Piano 08:02
- Für Hannah:
- 13 Schmitt: Für Hannah 02:41
- Memoriae:
- 14 Schmitt: Memoriae: No. 1, Chinesisches Totengedicht (Live) 03:09
- 15 Schmitt: Memoriae: No. 2, Meiner Mutter (Live) 03:56
- 16 Schmitt: Memoriae: No. 3, Ägyptisches Totengebet (Live) 03:19
- 17 Schmitt: "Memoriae: No. 4, Zitat aus Hölderlins "Hyperion" (Live) 01:11
- Primavera!:
- 18 Schmitt: Primavera! 01:29
Info for Werner Heinrich Schmitt: Piano Works, Chamber Music & Songs
Werner Heinrich Schmitt, born in Mannheim in 1961, began to study the piano in boyhood, and soon started to compose as well. Since then he has earned his living as a pianist, writing music as time permitted. This first album of his works reveals a composer of considerable substance, particularly in the two moving song-cycles that book-end this album. The sensitivity and resourcefulness of Schmitt's aural imagination are confirmed in the chamber and piano pieces heard here. Some are infused with joy, others with sorrow, but they all speak a musical language that aims to speak to the listener directly.
Anke Vondung, mezzo-soprano
Rüdiger Adami, cello
Alan Valotta, clarinet
Clara Schumann Quartet
Christoph Berner, piano
Werner Heinrich Schmitt, piano
Anke Vondung
The internationally sought-after mezzo-soprano Anke Vondung received her vocal training at the Mannheim University of Music. She regularly performs at all major international opera houses and at the Salzburg, Bregenz, and Glyndebourne Festivals. Her repertoire includes roles such as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Wellgunde and Waltraute (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Rosina and Zerlina (Don Giovanni), as well as the title roles in Giulio Cesare, Egitto, and Carmen. Anke Vondung is the winner of the Christel Goltz Prize of the Semperoper Foundation and was a permanent member of the Semperoper Dresden soloist ensemble from 2003 to 2005.
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