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Piano Trio Then-Bergh, Wen-Sinn Yang, Michael Schäfer – The Soul of Russia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:33 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Genuin
The Trio Then-Bergh (violin), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), and Michael Schäfer (piano) provide a cross-section of the golden age of Russian music in their new Genuin recording. These three exceptional musicians play masterpieces compiled and arranged by the composer Alexander Krein in the first half of the 20th century. Krein is a masterful arranger who makes the soul of each piece shine in the trio version. Works by Tchaikovsky (for example, from his String Serenade and The Seasons) and Rimsky-Korsakov (from The Golden Cockerel) are presented here, as well as wonderfully sentimental salon music from Glière to Tcherepnin.
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Wen-Sinn Yang, Tassilo Probst, Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich & Daniel Grossmann – Weinberg (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:36 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Onyx Classics
Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg was born in Warsaw in 1913. His father worked in the Yiddish Theatre as a violinist. The young composer would also work in this theatre as a pianist, and the music of the Eastern European Jews would form an indelible influence on his music. As would the tragic events that overtook his family in the Holocaust. His parents and his sister were murdered in the Trawniki concentration camp by the Nazis. Weinberg had fled Poland for Minsk, and then to Tashkent, finally settling in Moscow where he lived until his death in 1996. Even there he was never free from persecution. Shadowed by the KGB, accused by the Soviet Composers Union for ‘formalistic tendencies’, he lived a life under constant fear of arrest, and psychological pressure. He was finally arrested in early 1953, and it was only the tyrant Stalin’s death in March that year that saved him from a longer term. He was released after several week incarceration.
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Oliver Triendl, Nina Karmon, Stefan Fehlandt, Wen-Sinn Yang, Georg Arzberger – Heinrich Hofmann – Complete Piano Chamber Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:06:46 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
HeinrichHofmann (1842-1902) hatte ein unspektakuläres Leben, aber einige spektakuläre Erfolge. Berühmt wurde er 1869 im Alter von 27 Jahren mit seinem Pariser Kriminalstück Cartouche; Jacques Offenbachs Einakter waren zu dieser Zeit in Berlin sehr beliebt. Von nun an musste Hofmann keinen Klavierunterricht mehr geben, sondern konnte von den Einnahmen aus seinen Kompositionen leben. Mit seiner programmatischen Sinfonie Frithjof (nach einer nordischen Sage), der heroischen Oper Armin (die mit dem Sieg der Cherusker im Teutoburger Wald endet) und der geistreichen Musikalischen Komödie Ännchen von Tharau (in der ein junger Theologiestudent dem alten Lyriker Simon Dach das Volkslied Ännchen abschnorrt) schuf er Werke, die zu seiner Zeit häufig aufgeführt wurden und den Zeitgeist der Jahre 1870 bis 1890 nach der Reichsgründung widerspiegelten. Doch auch seine ehrenvolle Aufnahme in die Berliner Akademie der Künste konnte nicht verhindern, dass seine Werke ab den 1890er Jahren immer seltener aufgeführt wurden. Nach seinem Tod geriet seine Musik weitgehend in Vergessenheit.
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Franz Halász, Débora Halász, Wen-Sinn Yang – Gnattali: Alma brasileira (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:03 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS Records AB
His parents, Italian immigrants to Brazil, named Radam?s Gnattali after the male lead in Verdi’s Aida, and his mother began to teach him the piano at the age of six. But even though he did become a highly skilled pianist, performing Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto in B flat at Rio de Janeiro’s Teatro Municipal at the age of 23, it was as a composer (and arranger) of music of a distinctly Brazilian cast that he would make his name. Gnattali developed an individual style, which today might be called cross-over, by infusing inflexions of popular music into a classical framework, over a fluid harmonic technique. Jaunty rhythms and striking melodic lines appear in a wholly uncontrived manner: they formed his everyday working material, as an arranger of popular music for record companies and radio stations. When composing concert music Gnattali usually did so for musicians that he collaborated with in popular music, such as the guitarist Laurindo Almeida, as well as for himself. A large production includes works for a great variety of scorings, but for this disc Franz and D?bora Hal?sz have chosen to present chamber and solo works for guitar and piano, inviting the cellist Wen-Sinn Yang to join in for the composer’s Sonata for guitar and cello. As reflected in some of the titles, Brazilian dance forms (samba, batuque, choro) play an important role in this music, which for a long time was disregarded by a musical establishment suspicious of its great fluency and popular appeal; music which in every bar expresses the soul of Brazil.
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Wen-Sinn Yang & Oliver Triendl – Le violoncelle à l’école de Paris (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:58 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oehms Classics
After the devastation of World War I, young, hopeful, gifted composers trooped into the French capital. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term ‘Ecole de Paris (‘Paris School’) for the foreign composers then living there, especially Hungary’s Tibor Hars’anyi (1898-1954), Poland’s Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Czechoslovakia’s Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Russia’s Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), and Romania’s Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), whose works he specialised in disseminating. All five composers featured in this album came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martinu, died there. They initially attempted to translate the essence of folk music from their homelands, using standard musical notation to express idiomatic subtleties that were difficult to capture. The programme includes the world premiere recordings of Hars’anyi’s Rhapsodie and Sonate Pour Violoncelle et Piano, and Mihalovici’s Sonate dans le caract`ere d’une sc`ene lyrique.
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