Oboist Burkhard Glaetzner performs three highly diverse contemporary works on his solo album. Together with Hansjacob Staemmler on piano, he has recorded works by Friedrich Schenker (1942–2013), Helmut Oehring (*1961) and Sarah Nemtsov (*1980). In addition to his solo activities, Glaetzner was professor of oboe in Leipzig and in Berlin; he also directed the New Bach Collegium Musicum for many years. Now the Leipzig label Klanglogo is adding an exciting solo album to its extensive discography: Schenker's Sonata for Oboe and Piano is based on atonal twelve-tone regulated structures, but also likes to draw on traditional patterns. In the five movements of his Melencolia I, Oehring combines vocal and instrumental sounds, masterfully interpreted by Glaetzner and Staemmler. Nemtsov also takes new tonal approaches in Wolves, for oboe and prepared piano with reed-making utensils, even to the point of deliberately destroying the mouthpiece. The composer thus interprets the theme of farewell not only as separation: "perhaps also freedom".
