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Yubo Zhou - Jorg Widmann Piano Music [CD]

Yubo Zhou - Jorg Widmann Piano Music [CD]

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One of the most intriguing composers of the 21st century, Jorg Widmann writes music that is both sophisticated and deeply moving. The highly talented and versatile virtuoso, Yubo Zhou, delves deep into Widmann's world of sound with these four stirring piano cycles, revealing a whole cosmos of allusions and associations.

'Zirkustanze' ('Circus Dances') is a fascinating kaleidoscope of emotions and parodies filled with a danger the tightrope-walker may fall. Zhou takes us through unexpected twists and turns with the necessary lyricism and irony whether fanfare, boogiewoogie, waltz or Venetian gondoliers' song. The finale makes a mockery of a parade-ground march whose weird distortions Zhou hurls at the audience with overwhelming virtuosity.

'Elf Humoresken' is a connotation-rich yet aesthetically self-contained transfer of Schumann's language into the musical idiom of the 21st century. Pieces such as 'Fast zu ernst' ('Almost Too Serious'), 'Lied im Traume' ('Song in a dream') or 'Waldszene' ('Forest scene') echo Schumann's 'Kinderszenen' and 'Waldszenen' with an imaginative mix of ingenuity and melancholic irony.

'Intermezzi' is Widmann's tribute to his love of Brahms. By way of a familiar melodic flourish, harmonic sequence or a tiny fragment of a motif, the allusions are yet remote from the nineteenth century and expressed in a tonal language of their own. 'Idyll und Abgrund' is a nod to Schubert, more reminiscence than pastiche, sometimes extremely vague, sometimes quite specific, and always distinguished by compositional and tonal extremes.

Jorg Widmann: Zirkustanze: Fanfare

Boogie Woogie

Erster Walzer

Vier Strophen vom Heimweh

Valse bavaroise

Valse sentimentale

Kinderreim

Karussell-Walzer

Hebraische Melodie

Venezianisches Gondellied

Bayerische-babylonischer Marsch

Idyll und Abgrund: I. Irreal, von fern

II. Allegretto un poco agitato

III.

IV. Scherzando

V.

VI. Traurig, desolat

Intermezzi for piano: I.

II. Zart singend

III. Mit dunkler Glut

IV. Wiefenlied

V. Lento un poco andante

Elf Humoresken: Kinderlied

Fast zu Ernst

Anfangs lebhaft

Waldszene

Choral

Warum?

Intermezzo

Zerrinnendes Bild

Glocken

Lied im Traume

Mit Humor und Feinsinn

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One of the most intriguing composers of the 21st century, Jorg Widmann writes music that is both sophisticated and deeply moving. The highly talented and versatile virtuoso, Yubo Zhou, delves deep into Widmann's world of sound with these four stirring piano cycles, revealing a whole cosmos of allusions and associations.

'Zirkustanze' ('Circus Dances') is a fascinating kaleidoscope of emotions and parodies filled with a danger the tightrope-walker may fall. Zhou takes us through unexpected twists and turns with the necessary lyricism and irony whether fanfare, boogiewoogie, waltz or Venetian gondoliers' song. The finale makes a mockery of a parade-ground march whose weird distortions Zhou hurls at the audience with overwhelming virtuosity.

'Elf Humoresken' is a connotation-rich yet aesthetically self-contained transfer of Schumann's language into the musical idiom of the 21st century. Pieces such as 'Fast zu ernst' ('Almost Too Serious'), 'Lied im Traume' ('Song in a dream') or 'Waldszene' ('Forest scene') echo Schumann's 'Kinderszenen' and 'Waldszenen' with an imaginative mix of ingenuity and melancholic irony.

'Intermezzi' is Widmann's tribute to his love of Brahms. By way of a familiar melodic flourish, harmonic sequence or a tiny fragment of a motif, the allusions are yet remote from the nineteenth century and expressed in a tonal language of their own. 'Idyll und Abgrund' is a nod to Schubert, more reminiscence than pastiche, sometimes extremely vague, sometimes quite specific, and always distinguished by compositional and tonal extremes.

Jorg Widmann: Zirkustanze: Fanfare

Boogie Woogie

Erster Walzer

Vier Strophen vom Heimweh

Valse bavaroise

Valse sentimentale

Kinderreim

Karussell-Walzer

Hebraische Melodie

Venezianisches Gondellied

Bayerische-babylonischer Marsch

Idyll und Abgrund: I. Irreal, von fern

II. Allegretto un poco agitato

III.

IV. Scherzando

V.

VI. Traurig, desolat

Intermezzi for piano: I.

II. Zart singend

III. Mit dunkler Glut

IV. Wiefenlied

V. Lento un poco andante

Elf Humoresken: Kinderlied

Fast zu Ernst

Anfangs lebhaft

Waldszene

Choral

Warum?

Intermezzo

Zerrinnendes Bild

Glocken

Lied im Traume

Mit Humor und Feinsinn

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Jorg Widmann: Zirkustanze: Fanfare

Boogie Woogie

Erster Walzer

Vier Strophen vom Heimweh

Valse bavaroise

Valse sentimentale

Kinderreim

Karussell-Walzer

Hebraische Melodie

Venezianisches Gondellied

Bayerische-babylonischer Marsch

Idyll und Abgrund: I. Irreal, von fern

II. Allegretto un poco agitato

III.

IV. Scherzando

V.

VI. Traurig, desolat

Intermezzi for piano: I.

II. Zart singend

III. Mit dunkler Glut

IV. Wiefenlied

V. Lento un poco andante

Elf Humoresken: Kinderlied

Fast zu Ernst

Anfangs lebhaft

Waldszene

Choral

Warum?

Intermezzo

Zerrinnendes Bild

Glocken

Lied im Traume

Mit Humor und Feinsinn

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  • Genre: Classical
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
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