GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Brigitta Muntendorf: Trilogie
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twenty-second release »Brigitta Muntendorf: Trilogie« featuring world premiere recordings by the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo. The album includes both the Trilogie für zwei Flügel, produced by the WDR, and the respective films of Theater des Nachhalls, a concert installation for multichannel video and audio. In addition to the recordings and the films, the set also contains a 52-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Dirk Wieschollek and an interv…
Zafraan Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Christophe Bertrand: Vertigo*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its fourteenth release »Christophe Bertrand: Vertigo« featuring world premiere recordings by the Zafraan Ensemble, KNM Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, with conductors Premil Petrović, Victor Aviat, Brad Lubman, Peter Rundel, Baldur Brönnimann and Emilio Pomàrico. This box set of recordings produced by the WDR, the first complete recording of Bertrand’s instrumental works, also includes an 80-page trilingual booklet (EN, FR, DE) with…
Mantra
*2022 stock* 'Composed in 1970, Mantra, for two pianos and ring modulation, was one of the decisive turning points in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s career. The 70-minute piece not only signalled a break with the text-based intuitive works, relying heavily on improvisation, that had come to dominate his output towards the end of the previous decade and a return to fully notated scores, but also introduced the idea of melodic formulae, the “mantra” of the title, which Stockhausen would eventually develo…
Piano Duet
Before the epigones take over the stage we are given a chance to hear out Bach himself: the unfinished four-voice Contrapunctus XIV from the Art of the Fugue marks the starting point of Andreas Grau's and Götz Schumacher's remarkable exploration of the Bach cosmos. In the Berlin autograph of the Contrapunctus XIV the place where the score breaks off is marked by an inscription: "At the point where the name BACH is introduced in the countersubject to this fugue, the composer died." Even though fr…