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Release Date: 20-08-2004
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13185-2
Barcode: 13711318524
Musical Style: Classical
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Präludium d-moll VL 106 (op.1) [00:45] | 21 | Mazurka cis-moll VL 200 [01:53] |
| 2 | Mazurka F-Dur VL 143 [02:59] | 22 | Mazurka e-moll VL 198 [00:26] |
| 3 | Walzer b-moll VL 144 [02:33] | 23 | Mazurka H-Dur o.O. [02:36] |
| 4 | Kleine Polka F-Dur VL 145 [01:16] | 24 | Mazurka e-moll VL 236 [01:52] |
| 5 | Mazurka f-moll KJZ 566 [01:10] | 25 | Mazurka h-moll VL 167 [01:04] |
| 6 | Polonaise b-moll VL 190 [02:32] | 26 | Mazurka es-moll VL 197 (op.8,1) [02:01] |
| 7 | Präludium c-moll VL 189 [03:01] | 27 | Präludium f-moll VL 222 (op.8,2) [03:39] |
| 8 | Mazurka es-moll VL161 [00:46] | 28 | Präludium d-moll VL 239 (op.12,1) [01:44] |
| 9 | Mazurka C-Dur KJZ 579 [00:55] | 29 | Postludium C-Dur VL 240 (op.12,2) [01:49] |
| 10 | Walzer F-Dur VL 177 [02:18] | 30 | Präludium h-moll VL 333 (op.12,3) [01:24] |
| 11 | Mazurka es-moll VL 195 [00:55] | 31 | Das Meer Zyklus - Moderato VL 317(op.28,1) [03:01] |
| 12 | Mazurka Des-Dur VL 180a [02:19] | 32 | Das Meer Zyklus - Andante VL 318 (op.28,2) [03:21] |
| 13 | Präludium F-Dur VL 109 [00:41] | 33 | Das Meer Zyklus - Allegro impetuoso VL 319 (op.28,3) [01:05] |
| 14 | Walzer B-Dur VL 159 [03:34] | 34 | Präludium VL 338 (op.33,1) [02:43] |
| 15 | Mazurka C-Dur VL 237 [01:43] | 35 | Präludium VL 339 (op.33,2) [01:37] |
| 16 | Mazurka fis-moll KJZ 773 [00:33] | 36 | Präludium VL 340 (op.33,3) [01:08] |
| 17 | Mazurka fis-moll KJZ 573 [01:26] | 37 | Präludium VL 342 (op.33,4) [00:47] |
| 18 | Litauisches Lied h-moll VL 146 [00:38] | 38 | Präludium VL 343 (op.33,5) [01:08] |
| 19 | Melodie D-Dur KJZ 738 [00:53] | 39 | Präludium VL 344 (op.33,6) [01:04] |
| 20 | Melodie E-dur KJZ 760 [00:32] | 40 | Fuge VL 345 (op.34) [05:50] |
Description:
This recording presents both his early and late piano compositions. His early works are finely-spun webs, often tinted with melancholy, many less than a minute long, moments immortalised like thoughts noted down in a diary. The later pieces, on the other hand, such as the piano cycle Marios or the Six Preludes Op. 33 evoke their own special tonal world through the use of unusual, disturbing melodies. When planning this CD, writes Nikolaus Lahusen my practical considerations were centered around how the numerous short pieces could be grouped together in a meaningful way. On the first volume of works I set apart the four to six movement cycles by interspersing fugues among them, thus causing the listener to concentrate on the polyphonic structures of the many-layered preludes. On this CD I decided to pull groups of short early compositions together into small suites according to harmonic criteria and to the similarity of their dancelike characteristics.
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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