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Franz Schubert - Leoš Janáček

Soulmates

Herbert Schuch

Label: CAvi
Format: CD
Barcode: 4260085535156
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Catalog number: AVI 8553515
Releasedate: 21-10-22

- Herbert Schuch is very well known, building bridges between two composers. After his first project “Bagatellen” (8553443) and the follow up “Reflecting Beethoven” (8553016) he puts for discussion and presents piano music of some mental simularity between Franz Schubert and Leoš Janáček.

- Herbert Schuch counts meanwhile as one of the leading German pianists, who presents many times his own concepts and projects in concert and in the studio.

 

SOULMATES

“The idea of finding relationships between the music of Franz Schubert and Leoš Janáček emerged in my head for the first time in a kind of dreamworld between sleep and waking. I had laid down to take a rest, and my thoughts started to revolve around these two composers. Thus, the point of departure for this album was not something intellectual: it was more like a hunch. I then obviously needed to inspect my idea by daylight to see if it made musical sense – also in terms of interpretation and dramaturgy.”….

“Each one of them is a composer who discovers and creates his own world of sound step by step, by groping or wandering. Schubert embarks on his journey with a certain degree of open-mindedness: I get the impression that he is not so certain about where his destination lies or which path he will take to reach it. This feeling of departure, of improvisation, of setting one foot after the other, is something I also sense quite intensely in Janáček.

In these two composers, there is a special relationship between the outer world and inner world: their music is clearly connected with nature, but nature is only a mirror of their inner emotions. I find it exciting to juxtapose these two artists – these two human beings, I would say – and see what happens if we let them share a portion of their journey in each other’s company.” (Excerpt from an interview with Michael Kube)