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Piano - 20th Century
Various composers

Cathy Krier

Piano - 20th Century

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533398
Catnr: AVI 8553339
Release date: 16 October 2015
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Label
CAvi
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4260085533398
Catalogue number
AVI 8553339
Release date
16 October 2015
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About the album

The early 20th century is a period that fascinates me. The prevalent musical aesthetic was disrupted by a new generation of composers who maintained their roots in tradition, but felt a great desire to expand music's horizions: they formed a multitude of currents and embarked on a number of different paths, all driven by the idea of transfiguring everything they had previously known. For this album I have chosen to retrace the path originally taken by Arnold Schoenberg. Born in Vienna in 1874, Schoenberg had an atypical career. Upon his father's death, he had to leave school as the eldest sibling at the age of sixteen to take up a profession. As an autodidact he learned the essentials of composition by sight-reading great repertoire and by playing chamber music on the cello and the violin. Married to the sister of Alexander Zemlinsky, Schoenberg took some counterpoint lessons from that composer and soon started teaching harmony and counterpoint himself, from 1903 on. His

Artist(s)

Cathy Krier (piano)

Elected ECHO Rising-Star for the 2015/2016 season, Luxembourg pianist Cathy Krier has enjoyed great success in the most prestigious concert halls in Europe. Her programmes, combining classical and modern periods and featuring works by Rameau, Schubert, Ravel and Berg, as well as a piece specially written for her by the German composer Wolfgang Rihm, were highly praised. Cathy‘s passion for music always drives her to go beyond conventions. She loves to work on special projects and pushes her boundaries to go beyond herself and arouse her curiosity and that of her audience. This includes well-thought solo programmes as well as collaborations with choreographers such as Elisabeth Schilling (Hear Eyes Move with Études pour piano by György Ligeti), musical journeys for younger audiences (Clara! – A compositional journey with...
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Elected ECHO Rising-Star for the 2015/2016 season, Luxembourg pianist Cathy Krier has enjoyed great success in the most prestigious concert halls in Europe. Her programmes, combining classical and modern periods and featuring works by Rameau, Schubert, Ravel and Berg, as well as a piece specially written for her by the German composer Wolfgang Rihm, were highly praised.
Cathy‘s passion for music always drives her to go beyond conventions. She loves to work on special projects and pushes her boundaries to go beyond herself and arouse her curiosity and that of her audience. This includes well-thought solo programmes as well as collaborations with choreographers such as Elisabeth Schilling (Hear Eyes Move with Études pour piano by György Ligeti), musical journeys for younger audiences (Clara! – A compositional journey with music by Clara Schumann and Catherine Kontz, directed by Tobias Ribitzki), music theatre (Funeral Blues – the missing cabaret, directed by Olivier Fredj), projects with her chamber music partners Laurence Koch (violin) and Nils Kohler (clarinet) and an annual cycle for Yoga at the Phil at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
Cathy Krier has given successful concerts at the Bozar in Brussels, the Barbican Centre in London, the Philharmonie 2 in Paris, the Sage Gateshead, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Palau de la musica in Barcelona, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation in Lisbon, at the Palace of Arts (Müpa) in Budapest, Konserthus Stockholm, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Cologne Philharmonie, Casa da musica in Porto, Musikverein Vienna, Town Hall in Birmingham, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden as well as at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Radio and television appearances – as seen on Daniel Hope‘s musical journey EUROPE@HOME on arte – frame Cathy‘s busy artistic schedule.
Born in Luxembourg, Cathy Krier began her piano studies at the Luxembourg Conservatory at the age of five. At the age of 14, she was admitted to Pavel Gililov‘s virtuosity class at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She received further musical impulses from Dominique Merlet, Robert Levin, Homero Francesch and Andrea Lucchesini, with whom she continued her studies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.
Since 2018, Cathy Krier holds a professorship in piano at the Conservatory of the City of Luxembourg, where she also lives with her family.


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Composer(s)

Franz Liszt

If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an...
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If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an advocate of both old and new music.
Together with his son-in-law Richard Wagner, he was in the forefront of the Romantic movement and anticipated the musical revolutions of the early 20th century with his new composition techniques.


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Alban Berg

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer. Berg studied from 1904 to 1910 under Arnold Schoenberg and together with his teacher and fellow student Anton Webern he is part of the Second Viennese School. Berg married with Helene Nahowski (1885-1976), a singer who was a daughter from Anna Nahowski and, allegedly, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. At first, Berg applied a free atonality, but later he started developing strict twelve tone techniques and combined these to a style which, despite its expressionistic character, reminds of the Late Romantic music of Gustav Mahler. 
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Alban Berg was an Austrian composer. Berg studied from 1904 to 1910 under Arnold Schoenberg and together with his teacher and fellow student Anton Webern he is part of the Second Viennese School. Berg married with Helene Nahowski (1885-1976), a singer who was a daughter from Anna Nahowski and, allegedly, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

At first, Berg applied a free atonality, but later he started developing strict twelve tone techniques and combined these to a style which, despite its expressionistic character, reminds of the Late Romantic music of Gustav Mahler.


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Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, but perhaps also one of the least listened to. Strikingly, Schoenberg was self-educated, even though his music is imbedded in complex music theory. It was Schoenberg who definitely departed from tonality and he developed the twelve tone technique. In this composition style, one has to use every twelve tones of the scale, before one can be repeated. The struggle to adhere to this dogma is clearly audible: his music is tense, hectic and particularly acute - and therefore at times not that accesible to occasional listeners.  Nevertheless, his music and his liberation of tonality had an enormous impact on all composers that came after him. Together with the...
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Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, but perhaps also one of the least listened to. Strikingly, Schoenberg was self-educated, even though his music is imbedded in complex music theory. It was Schoenberg who definitely departed from tonality and he developed the twelve tone technique. In this composition style, one has to use every twelve tones of the scale, before one can be repeated. The struggle to adhere to this dogma is clearly audible: his music is tense, hectic and particularly acute - and therefore at times not that accesible to occasional listeners.

Nevertheless, his music and his liberation of tonality had an enormous impact on all composers that came after him. Together with the music of his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern, his style is often referred to as the Second Viennese School, parallel to the First Viennese School of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, who, in a similar vein, changed the history of music for good.

His most performed works are his string sextet Verklärte Nacht, his five Orchestra pieces op. 16, and his opera Moses und Aron. The development of Schoenberg's music can be heard in his Five String Quartets in particular.


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01.
Sonata for Piano, Op. 1 (1907/08): Mässig bewegt
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(Alban Berg) Cathy Krier
02.
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11: Mässige
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(Arnold Schönberg) Cathy Krier
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Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11: Sehr langsam
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(Arnold Schönberg) Cathy Krier
04.
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11: Bewegte
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(Arnold Schönberg) Cathy Krier
05.
Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Introduktion. Andante rappresentativo
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Ekloge. Larghetto, con espressione
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Rondino. Allegro giocoso
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Bourée. Allegro moderato
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Meditation. Adagio molto
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Aria. Andante molto cantabile
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Estampida. Allegro
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part I (Echiridion): Toccata. Allegro feroce
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part II (Echiridion): Vigil. Larghetto molto
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part II (Echiridion): Hora. Moderato
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part II (Echiridion): Ostinato. Presto
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part II (Echiridion): Matutin. Cantabile molto
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Small Pieces for Piano, Part II (Echiridion): Imagination. Sostenuto
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Intermezzo: Andante con moto (1949)
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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L'après-midi d'un Puck: Allegro giocoso (1962)
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
20.
Hommage à Johann Strauss: Tempo di valse (1952)
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(Bernd Alois Zimmermann) Cathy Krier
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Klavierstück, Op. 33a: Mässig
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(Arnold Schönberg) Cathy Krier
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Klavierstück, Op. 33b: Mässig langsam
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(Arnold Schönberg) Cathy Krier
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Nuages Gris
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(Franz Liszt) Cathy Krier
24.
Unstern! - Sinistre
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(Franz Liszt) Cathy Krier
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