Rudi Stephan - Chamber Works and Songs (Hinrich Alpers)

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Composer: Rudi Stephan

CD1:

• (01) Groteske für Geige und Klavier
• (02-07) "Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied..."
• (08) Waldnachmittag
• (09) Auf den Tod einer jungen Frau
• (10) Up de eensome Hallig
• (11-12) Zwei ernste Gesänge
• (13) Liebeszauber (arr. Hinrich Alpers)

CD2:

• (01) Mitternacht
• (02) Weihnachtsgefühl
• (03-09) Sieben Lieder nach verschiedenen Dichtern
• (10-11) Musik für sieben Saiteninstrumente

Hinrich Alpers, piano
Kuss Quartet
Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, baritone
Tehila Nini Goldstein, soprano
Nabil Shehata, double bass
Agata Szymczewska, violin

Date: 2017
Label: Sony Classical

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Rudi Stephan (29 July 1887 – 29 September 1915), was a German composer of great promise who was considered one of the leading talents among his generation. Stephan left only a few works: his liking for pointedly neutral titles along the lines of 'Music for ...' has caused him to be seen as a forerunner of the 'New Objectivity' of the post-war era, but his music is in fact in a hyper-expressive late-Romantic idiom. He completed his only opera, Die ersten Menschen, shortly after the outbreak of the war, and it was eventually premiered in Frankfurt, five years after his death from a bullet in the brain fired by a Russian sharpshooter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Stephan

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Hinrich Alpers (born 1981 in Uelzen) is a German pianist. Alper studied with Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and spent one year at the Juilliard School with Jerome Lowenthal. After various international prizes and appearances at renowned festivals, he made his debut at the New York's Carnegie Hall in 2008. Alpers is the initiator and artistic director of the International Summer Academy Luneburg Heath, which has existed since 2010 in his home town of Uelzen. Alpers lives in Berlin and teaches piano and chamber music at the local Barenboim-Said Academy.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinrich_Alpers
http://hinrichalpers.com/en/

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