Werner Heinrich Schmitt: Piano Works, Chamber Music and 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
Alan Valotta, clarinet
Rüdiger Adami, cello
Clara Schumann Quartet
Christoph Berner, piano
Werner Heinrich Schmitt, piano
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4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse (2004)* (10:31)
- No. 1, Traum (4:59)
- No. 2, Komm mit (2:20)
- No. 3, Wollust (1:43)
- No. 4, Blauer Schmetterling (1:29)
- Etüde for piano (2023) (2:32)
- Aria for cello and piano (1998) (5:38)
- …im Juli 1983… for piano (1983) (5:04)
Three Pictures for piano (1998) (8:43)
- No. 1 (5:55)
- No. 2 (1:36)
- No. 3 (1:12)
- 14 Variations on ‘Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein’ for clarinet and piano (1997) (8:02)
- Für Hannah for piano (2022) (2:42)
Memoriae: Vier Lieder in Gedenken an Jolande und Werner Jakob Schmitt (2010)* (11:37)
- No. 1, Chinesisches Totengedicht (3:10)
- No. 2, Meiner Mutter (3:57)
- No. 3, Ägyptisches Totengebet (3:19)
- No. 4, Zitat aus Hölderlins ‘Hyperion’ (1:11)
- Primavera! for piano (1987) (1:30)
First Recordings *Live
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