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Release Date: 15-07-2000
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13184-2
Barcode: 13711318425
Musical Style: Classical
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fuge c-moll VL 219 (op.10,1), 1902 [02:35] | 16 | Präludien b-moll über ein Thema VL 271 (op.20,1), 1905 [01:23] |
| 2 | Präludium b-moll VL 169 (op.3,1), 1899 [02:39] | 17 | Präludien b-moll über ein Thema VL 270 (op,'0.2), 1901 [02:28] |
| 3 | Humoreske g-moll VL 162 (op.3,2), 1899 [02:46] | 18 | Präludien b-moll über ein Thema VL 269 (op.20,3), 1905 [02:01] |
| 4 | Präludium f-moll VL 164 (op.3,4), 1899 [01:34] | 19 | Besacas-Variationen VL 265 (op.18), 1904-1905 [08:15] |
| 5 | Mazurka h-moll VL 234 (op.3,3), 1902 [01:34] | 20 | Fuge e-moll VL 226 (op.10,5), 1902 [02:46] |
| 6 | Fuge fis-moll VL 233 (op.10,2), 1902 [04:00] | 21 | Präludium d-moll VL 294 (op.21,1), 1906 [00:57] |
| 7 | Nocturne fis-moll VL 178 (op.4,1), 1900 [03:30] | 22 | Präludium d-moll VL 295 (op.21,2), 1906 [02:09] |
| 8 | Impromptus fis-moll VL 181 (op.4,2), 1900 [05:57] | 23 | Präludium d-moll VL 296 (op.21,3), 1906 [00:37] |
| 9 | Präludium Fis-dur VL 184 (op.6,1), 1901 [02:22] | 24 | Präludium d-moll VL 297 (op.21,4), 1906 [00:47] |
| 10 | Nocturne cis-moll VL 183 (op 6,2), 1901 [03:05] | 25 | Choral-Fuge a-moll VL.227 (op.10,4), 1902 [03:55] |
| 11 | Fuge h-moll VL 224 (op.10,3), 1901 [04:35] | 26 | Präludium d-moll VL 325 (op.31,1), 1908 [01:45] |
| 12 | Präludium h-moll VL 254 (op.16,1), 1904 [00:45] | 27 | Präludium d-moll VL 322 (op.31,4), 1908 [01:14] |
| 13 | Präludium h-moll VL 259 (op.16,2), 1904 [00:39] | 28 | Präludium C-dur VL 327 (op.31,2), 1909 [01:02] |
| 14 | Präludium h-moll VL 256(op.16,3), 1904 [03:10] | 29 | Präludium C-dur VL 328 (op.31,3), 1909 [01:21] |
| 15 | Eintracht VL 255 (op.16,4), 1904 [00:50] | ||
Description:
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis was born in 1875 in the southern Lithuanian town of Varena, near Vilnius. Doubly talented, he was an artist-composer who could hear colours and see sounds and whose life was comprised of the close interaction between musical and artistic composition. In his homeland of Lithuania, Ciurlionis was celebrated as an exponent of musical modernism and the founder of a national school of music. Yet he was without doubt an avant-garde artist of European standing, an artistic visionary between the late Romantic and Modern ages, one of a number of creative innovators of the early 20th century, among them Skryrabin, Schönberg and Ravel, all born in the same year. Trained in Warsaw and Leipzig, he worked as a composer and painter in Warsaw, Vilnius and St. Petersburg. In the mere fifteen years prior to his untimely death in a Polish sanatorium in 1911, he produced an immense number of artistic and musical works including 200 paintings, 80 drawings and more than 270 musical compositions, about 170 of which were scored for solo piano.
Biography:
Nikolaus Lahusen was born in Bremen in 1960 and grew up in Mexico. His artistic development was supported by Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Christoph Eschenbach and Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Counted among the leading pianists of his generation, Lahusen has given concerts worldwide and has appeared in important concert halls (Philharmonie in Munich, Musikhalle in Hamburg, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, etc.) and with leading orchestras (European Community Chamber Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Nacional de Argentina, etc.). For Celestial Harmonies, he has previously recorded Orff-Schulwerk, Volume 3: Piano Music , The Complete Works of M.K. Ciurlionis, Vols. 1-3, Franz Schubert Sonata B Flat Major D. 960, 3 Klavierstücke D. 946 and Franz Schubert Sonata D Major D. 850, 34 Valses Sentimentales D. 779.
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