Steffen Schleiermacher - Le Piano du Groupe des Six '2023

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. La Belle Excentrique for Piano No. 2, Marche Franco-Lunaire
02. La Belle Excentrique for Piano No. 3, Valse du Mysterieux baiser dans l'oeil
03. Trois Pastorales for Piano No. 1, Vif et rude
04. Trois Pastorales for Piano No. 2, Moderement anime et dans un sentiment tres
calme
05. Trois Pastorales for Piano No. 3, Tres vif et tres net
06. Prelude for Piano
07. Trois Rag-Caprices for Piano, Op. 78 No. 1, Sec et muscle
08. Trois Rag-Caprices for Piano, Op. 78 No. 2, Romance
09. Trois Rag-Caprices for Piano, Op. 78 No. 3, Precis et nerveux
10. Mazurka for Piano
11. Sarabande for Piano, H. 26
12. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 1, Souplement
13. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 2, Vif
14. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 3, Tres lent
15. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 4, Legerement
16. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 5, Lent
17. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 6, Rythmique
18. Sept Pieces Breves for Piano, H. 25 No. 7, Violent
19. Trois Pastorales for Piano, FP 5 No. 1, Tres vite
20. Trois Pastorales for Piano, FP 5 No. 2, Tres lent
21. Trois Pastorales for Piano, FP 5 No. 3, Vite
22. Valse for Piano, FP 17a
23. Pastorale for Piano
24. Hommage a Debussy for Piano
25. Pas trop vite for Piano
26. Romance sans Paroles for Piano, Op. 21
27. Trois Preludes for Piano, Op. 26 No. 1, Sombre
28. Trois Preludes for Piano, Op. 26 No. 2, Tres lent
29. Trois Preludes for Piano, Op. 26 No. 3, Tres anime
30. A Francis Poulenc for Piano
31. La Diva de l'Empire for Piano



Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher is one of Germany's leading advocates for
contemporary music. He is equally active as a composer and has often been
honored with awards and prestigious residencies. 

Schleiermacher was born May 3, 1960, in Halle, then in East Germany. He is
distantly related to 19th century theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. His
education took place at one of the country's top universities, the
Musikhochschule Leipzig, where he studied piano under Gerhard Erber, composition
under Friedrich Schenker, and conducting under Günter Blumhagen.
Schleiermacher also studied composition at the DDR Akademie der Künste and
took private piano lessons with Aloys Kontarsky. 

It was as a composer that he first gained recognition, winning an award at the
Gaudeamus Competition for composition in 1985, and the Hanns Eisler Prize in
1989 for his Concerto for viola and chamber ensemble. Schleiermacher held
composition residences at the Villa Massimo, Rome (1992), and the Cité des
Arts, Paris (1998). He is interested in non-Western music, and his compositions
show influences from, among other traditions, the music of Indonesia's gamelan
orchestras, and Japanese traditional music. As a pianist, Schleiermacher has
performed concertos with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, the Munich
Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, among other top
ensembles. To explore his interests in contemporary music, he formed the
Ensemble Avantgarde, and as a soloist, he has performed and recorded music by
contemporary Japanese and Indonesian composers. 

As a recording artist, Schleiermacher has focused almost exclusively on music
from the early 20th century to the present. He has recorded more than 80 albums,
most them for the MDG label; these include a complete cycle of the piano music
of John Cage and another of Satie's piano music, the sixth volume of which
appeared in 2019. Schleiermacher's 2003 album Hommage à Walter Spies
memorialized the Dutch artist who invigorated the contemporary art scene on the
Indonesian island of Bali. He has won Germany's coveted ECHO Klassik award six
times.

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