Info text: "MOURNING MUSIC AS A PRAISE OF THE SUFFERING" The sound shape heard here reconstructs the original form of Johannes Brahms' German Requiem before its triumph in choral-symphonic sound power. This arrangement comes from the composer Heinrich Poos (born 1928), who primarily made vocal music and was a professor of music theory in Berlin for many years. Poos gives us a […]

Info text: RICHARD WAGNER ON BEETHOVEN'S "HEROIC SYMPHONY" This highly significant tone poem - the master's third symphony, and the work with which he first set out in his own unique direction - is in many respects not as easy to understand as its name suggests precisely because the title “heroic symphony” involuntarily leads one to […]

Info text: CONCERT POUR PIANO SEUL (CONCERT FOR PIANO ALONE) Original version of the 3rd Piano Sonata op.14, based on the autograph in the British Library, London Robert Schumann perhaps lives on primarily in his compositions for the piano. There is therefore no need to spark a rank dispute with the song and vocal composer, especially since Schumann's aftermath has a […]

Info text: JS BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS BWV 988 Thoughts on the work and interpretation Whether string trio, harpsichord or piano – the Goldberg Variations cannot be captured with terms such as “interpretation style” or “faithfulness to the work”. As is well known, the character and value of an interpretation depend only to a very limited extent on the question of “stylistic appropriateness” or the “tone color” of the chosen instrument, although criticism and […]