Reflections - Works for solo Piano Max Philip Klüser

• Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943), Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Wohin?:
• 1 Rachmaninoff, Schubert: Wohin? 02:34
• Jörg Widmann (b. 1973): Sonatina facile:
• 2 Widmann: Sonatina facile: I. Allegro 04:05
• 3 Widmann: Sonatina facile: II. Andante 04:26
• 4 Widmann: Sonatina facile: III. Rondo 05:04
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): An Mignon:
• 5 Schubert: An Mignon 04:09
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Zehn Variationen über ‚Unser dummer Pöbel meint‘ KV 455:
• 6 Mozart: Zehn Variationen über ‚Unser dummer Pöbel meint‘ KV 455 14:06
• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886), Franz Schubert: Die Forelle:
• 7 Liszt, Schubert: Die Forelle 03:41
• Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937): Masques Op. 34:
• 8 Szymanowski: Masques Op. 34: I. Shéhérazade 10:06
• 9 Szymanowski: Masques Op. 34: II. Tantris le Bouffon 06:08
• 10 Szymanowski: Masques Op. 34: III. Sérénade de Don Juan 05:58
• Total Runtime 01:00:17

Info for Reflections - Works for solo Piano

I have always been fascinated by musical settings of literature. This is the background to this project. Transcriptions of literary or musical models are also a favourite topic of discussion with my concert audiences.

The starting point for this project was three song transcriptions by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). In other words, three times Schubert, each time reflected by a different, later living composer and transcribed for piano solo.

The three pieces that Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) compiled under the title "Masques Op 34" form another pillar of the programme. But with the other pieces on this album, too, I want to offer something "new" beyond the most frequently played classical repertoire. In view of the multiple levels of meaning in such settings, I am travelling in exciting "intermediate worlds" here and also like to experiment with the weighting. Sometimes I have played the pieces very freely, then more structured and almost classical again. This kind of thing keeps my work process constantly fresh. ...

"It is a pleasure to discover this new album from Ars Produktion. The listener makes the acquaintance of an immensely talented, still little-known pianist who has a sense of color and nuance and makes each of the works recorded here a treat. On the one hand, there are three songs by Franz Schubert that have been newly arranged for piano by Rachmaninov (Wohin?), Godowsky (Mignon) and Liszt (Die Forelle), and on the other, you can make the acquaintance of Mozart’s variations on the opera aria ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ by Christoph W. Gluck. Mozart can be found again in the Sonatina facile by Jörg Widmann. And finally, Karol Szymanowski’s Masques op. 31 offers a highly complex and exciting encounter with very inspired and passionately crafted music. Perhaps Szymanowski is then also the interpretative highlight, but Max Philip Klüser’s outstanding playing and his passionate commitment to every note is also attractive in Mozart, Schubert and Widmann. It is clear that this pianist is a great creator and really has sound in his fingers." (Alain Steffen, pizzicato)

Max Philip Klüser, piano

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