Michael Denhoff - Hebdomadaire - Birgitta Wollenweber (1999)

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Michael Denhoff - Hebdomadaire - Birgitta Wollenweber (1999)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cds, Covers | 339 Mb
Label: col legno - Date: 1999

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Michael Denhoff (born 25 April 1955 in Ahaus) is a German composer and cellist.

Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze (composition), Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (cello) and the Amadeus Quartet (chamber music). As a composer and chamber musician, he occupied various teaching posts, including a lectureship in composition at the University of Mainz (1984-85) and a guest professorship at the National Conservatory of Hanoi (1997-99). From 1985 to 1992 he also conducted the Akademische Orchester Bonn, which he founded. As a cellist, he formed the Denhoff Piano Trio with his brother Johannes (violin) and the pianist Richard Braun. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Ludwig Quartet of Bonn, and he also works closely with the pianist Birgitta Wollenweber. As a composer, he has won several prizes and distinctions, including the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize (1986) and the Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Prize (1989).

Denhoff's music shows the influence of poetry and the visual arts. Several of his orchestral and chamber works have been inspired by lyrics and paintings. Thus, there are instrumental works and cycles based on pictures by Chagall, Klee, Kandinsky, Dürer and especially Goya (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos, 1982; Desastres de la guerra, 1983; Los disparates, 1988). The literary figures who have most left their mark on his music are Rilke, Celan, Beckett and Mallarmé. Other works characteristic of his compositional thought include cycles in the form of 'musical diaries' (Klangtagebuch, 1984; Hebdomadaire, 1990). The most significant of these works is the piano quintet Hauptweg und Nebenwege (1998), which lasts nearly three hours. This piece gathers together the essential aspects of his music, their relationship to musical tradition, and also the influences of literature and the visual arts.

Denhoff's compositional vocabulary shows evidence of a sensitive feeling for harmony and form, whose roots are to be found in composers such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman and György Kurtág.

CDs featuring Denhoff's works are available on the WERGO, Col Legno and Cybele labels.

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Prof. Birgitta Wollenweber, born near Cologne, studied at the Detmold Academy of Music with Prof. Kretschmar-Fischer and completed her studies in 1990 with the concert exam. From 1988-89 she studied with a DAAD scholarship with Peter Wallfish at the Royal College of Music in London. Masterclasses with Prof. Hans Leygraf, Prof. Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Prof. Gerhard Oppitz and Bruno Leonardo Gelber furthered her artistic development. Competition successes include the Chopin Piano Competition of the Kurd Aschenbrenner Foundation in Cologne, the International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt, the Joy Scott Prize of the Royal College of Music, the International Piano Competition Maria Canals de Barcelona and the German Music Competition. In 1991 the German Music Council selected her for the national concert series ”Konzerte Junger Künstler”. She was invited to perform at many different festivals, including the Rheinisches Musikfest, the International Musik Festival Dinu Lipatti in Sinaia/Rumania, the Kunstfest Weimar, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Chopin Festival Mariánské Lázne in Marienbad/Czech Republic, the Festival de l'Eté Mosan/Belgium, the ”Klaviersommer” in the Kammermusiksaal of the Beethoven House in Bonn, the Festival de Flandre in Belgium, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the International Chamber Music Festival La Musica in Florida. Birgitta Wollenweber performs internationally both as a chamber music partner and as soloist with orchestras. Studio recordings and live concerts have been broadcast on NDR, WDR, ZDF and Bayerischen Rundfunk and by Radio Bremen, Deutschlandfunk and the Deutsche Welle. Her repertoire encompasses compositions from all periods. Her extensive discography includes many rediscovered composers such as Julius Weismann, Carl Loewe, Georg von Albrecht, Salomon Jadassohn, Joseph Joachim, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Florent Schmitt. Birgitta Wollenweber has held a professorship for piano at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin since 2003.

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Tracks:

Michael Denhoff (*1955)

Hebdomadaire op.62 (1990)
52 Stücke vom Jahr für einen Pianisten

CD1:

01. No. 1. intraDa fur Davids Klavins
02. No. 2. Invention
03. No. 3. Elegie
04. No. 4. Nachtstuck
05. No. 5. akkorDISchES fur Jang-Eun Bae
06. No. 6. Fast eine Sonate fur Richard Braun
07. No. 7. Fast eine Passacaglia fur Vater
08. No. 8. Im Gegenlicht
09. No. 9. Erinnerungen (Canto I) fur Martella
10. No. 10. Dunkle Spur (Scherzo I)
11. No. 11. Grelle Spur (Sherzo II)
12. No. 12. Intermezzo
13. No. 13. Klanszene I fur Hwei-Lee und Volker
14. No. 14. AS-sonanzen
15. No. 15. Invention II
16. No. 16. Berceuse
17. No. 17. Cabaret
18. No. 18. Ohne Titel fur Giso
19. No. 19. Stele in memoriam Luigi Nono
20. No. 20. Capriccio I
21. No. 21. Fast eine Chaconne fur Klaus Kroger
22. No. 22. Aulodie (Canto II) fur Mutter
23. No. 23. Fast eine Fuge
24. No. 24. Phantasiestuck fur Gabriel
25. No. 25. Lamento
26. No. 26. Klangzene II fur Annette

CD2:

01. No. 27. Prolog (Klangszene III) fur Funter Bialas
02. No. 28. Haiku
03. No. 29. Refrain fur Richard Nobel
04. No. 30. Bagatelle
05. No. 31. Capriccio II fur David Graham
06. No. 32. Tempus fugit
07. No. 33. Etude hommage a Gyorgy Ligeti
08. No. 34. Stille, Rufe in memoriam Bernd Alois Zimmermann
09. No. 35. Mezza voce (Canto III) fur Birgitta
10. No. 36. FISsione fur Gyorgy Kurtag
11. No. 37. Spiegelschrift
12. No. 38. Kondukt fur Manfred Trojahn
13. No. 39. Epilog (Klangszene IV) fur Wilhelm Killmayer
14. No. 40. ENIGMA (Motto) hommage a Morton Feldman
15. No. 41. Klangbrief uber ein Tremolo (an Schubert) fur Gabriel
16. No. 42. Klangbrief uber eine Sequenz (an Schumann) fur Martella
17. No. 43. Klangbrief uber eine Begleitfigur (an Liszt) fur Heinz-Albert Heindrichs
18. No. 44. Klangbrief uber eine Wiederholung (an Satie) fur John Cage
19. No. 45. Klangbrief uber eine Namen (an Bach)
20. No. 46. Klangbrief uber ein Signal (an Mahler) fur Hans Werner Henze
21. No. 47. Klangbrief uber eine Akkord (an Skrjabin) fur Michael Burges
22. No. 48. Klangbrief uber ein Motiv (an Janacek) fur David Wilde
23. No. 49. Klangbrief uber ein Intervall (an Webern)
24. No. 50. Klangbrief uber eine Skala (an Verdi) fur Peter Ruzicka
25. No. 51. Klangbrief uber einen Rhythmus (an Beethoven) hommage a Glenn Gould
26. No. 52. Klangbrief uber ein Echo (Selbstbildnis)

Birgitta Wollenweber, Klavier