Alexandra Sostmann

Alexandra Sostmann – The Well Tempered Piano, Vol. I (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:58:28 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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If one reviews her earlier CD programmes and not least her last, very successful album “Grenzgänge”, it is striking that the works of Johann Sebastian Bach form a fixed point of reference for the pianist Alexandra Sostmann. Bach is almost always there. Therefore, it was only logical that she went into the studio to record a complete recording of one of his major works, the first part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier”, after an extensive and intensive study of the music.

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Alexandra Sostmann – Grenzgänge: Frescobaldi To Pärt (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:25 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Grenzgang – Crossing borders: Wandering between different worlds – In this music, border crossings become audible to me: from baroque to contemporary music, from music to religion, from the secular to the divine. That is why it is also about life and death, resurrection, enlightenment and remembrance – as in Bach’s Chaconne in memory of his first wife Maria Barbara Bach”.

With these words, pianist Alexandra Sostmann describes her album “Grenzg”ange,” which was co-produced with Bayerischer Runfunk.
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Alexandra Sostmann – Bach, Byrd, Gibbons & Contemporary Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:49 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Classical
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This new recording is about polyphonic references between the great counterpoint artists Byrd, Gibbons, Bach and the contemporary composers John Tavener, Oliver Knussen, John Adams, Markus Horn and Xiaoyong Chen. The two Bach Ricercari from the Musical Offering form the bracket. The exciting connection of the individual, different works to each other is created by the polyphonic structures, the modal church keys or by religious, spiritual references. 429 years lie between the work of Byrd and the work of Xiaoyong Chen composed for the release. With Bach, Byrd, Gibbons and Contemporary Music, the listener can expect a recording that is wonderfully audible, in a positive sense unexhausting. You have to get involved with the depth, the space and sometimes the silence, but it is worth it, because the music changes your own self and focuses attention on you. Im interested in the connections between different epochs and their polyphonic structures. So obviously there was no way that I could ignore Johann Sebastian Bach. However, I considered what to combine with his Ricercares a 3 and a 6 from The Musical Offering. First I thought of William Byrd, as I knew that polyphony and contrapuntal style were important to him, despite the fact that he was almost 150 years older than Bach. I began with vocal polyphony and arrived at Orlando Gibbons and virginal music, which I wanted to combine with contemporary music. And then the search began (Alexandra Sostmann)
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