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Title: Werner Heinrich Schmitt: Piano Works, Chamber Music & Songs
Artist: Anke Vondung
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113447524
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-04-18
Number of Discs: 1

Werner Heinrich Schmitt, born in Mannheim in 1961, began to study the piano in boyhood, and soon started to compose as well. Since then he has earned his living as a pianist, writing music as time permitted. This first album of his works reveals a composer of considerable substance, particularly in the two moving song-cycles that book-end this album. The sensitivity and resourcefulness of Schmitt's aural imagination are confirmed in the chamber and piano pieces heard here. Some are infused with joy, others with sorrow, but they all speak a musical language that aims to speak to the listener directly.

Tracks:
1.1 Vier Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse~No. 1. Traum
1.2 Vier Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse~No. 2. Komm mit
1.3 Vier Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse~No. 3. Wollust
1.4 Vier Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse~No. 4. Blauer Schmetterling
1.5 Etüde for piano
1.6 Aria for cello and piano
1.7 ...im Juli 1983... for piano
1.8 Volo for clarinet and piano
1.9 Three Pictures for piano~No. 1
1.10 Three Pictures for piano~No. 2
1.11 Three Pictures for piano~No. 3
1.12 14 Variations on 'Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein' for clarinet, cello and piano
1.13 Für Hannah for piano
1.14 Memoriae: Vier Lieder in Gedenken an Jolande und Werner Jakob Schmitt~No. 1. Chinesisches Totengedicht
1.15 Memoriae: Vier Lieder in Gedenken an Jolande und Werner Jakob Schmitt~No. 2. Meiner Mutter
1.16 Memoriae: Vier Lieder in Gedenken an Jolande und Werner Jakob Schmitt~No. 3. Ägyptisches Totengebet
1.17 Memoriae: Vier Lieder in Gedenken an Jolande und Werner Jakob Schmitt~No. 4. Zitat aus Hölderlins 'Hyperion'
1.18 Primavera! for piano