Walter Niemann: Piano Music, Volume Two
The largest part of the output of the Hamburg-born composer and writer Walter Niemann (1876–1973), a student of both Humperdinck and Reinecke, is piano music: an astonishing 1,000 or so pieces, divided into 189 opus numbers. Most of them are lyrical miniatures in a warm and approachable late-Romantic style, some evoking the music of the past – often with a touching degree of dignity and restraint, but also with an occasional flash of good humour.
Tomasz Kamieniak, piano
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Der Rubin, Gestalten und Bilder aus dem Orient nach Friedrich Hebbels gleichnamiger Novelle, Op. 161
- I. Assad (1:47)
- II. Fatime (3:11)
- III. Soliman der Juwelier (3:14)
- IV. Der Kadi (2:44)
- V. Der Sultan (2:25)
- Ballade aus vergangenen Tagen Op. 49 (publ. 1918) (6:10)
Suite nach Worten von J. P. Jacobsen, Op. 43
- I. Präludium (Der alte Springbrunnen) (4:26)
- II. Romanze (Rosenzeit) (4:02)
- III. Barkarole (Im Kahn) (6:18)
- IV. Ballade (Phantom im Nebel) (3:27)
Antike Idyllen, 6 Idyllen nach Dichtungen von Elsa Bergmann, Op. 99
- I. Pompeja (3:48)
- II. Lalage (2:53)
- III. Telemachos (1:06)
- IV. Odysseus (3:57)
- V. Paesta (3:46)
- VI. Erinna (5:06)
Drei Moderne Klavierstücke, Op. 68
- No. 1, Romantischer Walzer (3:36)
- No. 2, Delphi (Feierliche Hymne) (4:32)
- No. 3, Im fernen Osten (Exotische Groteske) (2:35)
- Die beiden Klatschmäulchen (0:42)
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