Litta: Konzert-Trilogie

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As to the artists, violinist Ilona Then-Bergh and pianist Michael Schäfer play boldly and wonderfully together. The recorded sound is also excellent, with a great balance between instruments... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: GEN20690
Label: Genuin
Length: 82 minutes

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Litta: Le Lac d'Amour

Work length36:07

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Ilona Then-Bergh, Michael Schäfer

I. Le lac

Track length9:31

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II. Le cygne

Track length7:58

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III. Cloches d'antan

Track length11:16

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$3.85

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IV. La source qui pleure

Track length7:22

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Litta: La déesse nue (Version for Violin & Piano)

Work length24:14

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Ilona Then-Bergh, Michael Schäfer

Litta: Der Tod als Fiedler (Version for Violin & Piano)

Work length21:56

Album only

Ilona Then-Bergh, Michael Schäfer

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You have never heard of Paolo Litta? The pianist Michael Schäfer will teach you better, because for 14 years the pianist has been digging up untiringly forgotten works in his Edition Un!erhört at GENUIN. With the concert trilogy by Paolo Litta, he and violinist Ilona Then-Bergh have discovered a particularly exciting major work of symbolism. In the successively published parts "Der Minne-See", "Die entschleierte Göttin" and "Der Tod als Fiedler", literature, art and music are interwoven into a total work of art. From Georges Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte, Paolo Litta took the setting and from Paul Gauguin the three-part form, which simultaneously symbolises the course of human life, birth, life and death. Richard Wagner's leitmotif flows into his work, combining all three parts. The music is very poetic, almost innocently playful in the first part "Der Minne-See", dramatic in the second part, in which the man's psyche struggles with suffering and doubt, and highly virtuoso in the last part, in which death approaches inexorably. On this recording, it is impossible not to hear how much Ilona Then-Bergh and Michael Schäfer merge with the composer's intentions.

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Jan/Feb 2021

As to the artists, violinist Ilona Then-Bergh and pianist Michael Schäfer play boldly and wonderfully together. The recorded sound is also excellent, with a great balance between instruments in an up-close perspective with just enough hall sound to transport the listener to the performing venue.

March 2020

Fiercely committed performances.

Litta: Konzert-Trilogie

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