Anke Vondung - Werner Heinrich Schmitt Piano Works, Chamber Music & Songs (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Werner Heinrich Schmitt, born in Mannheim in 1961, began to study the piano in boyhood, and soon started to compose as well. Since then he has earned his living as a pianist, writing music as time permitted. This first album of his works reveals a composer of considerable substance, particularly in the two moving song-cycles that book-end this album. The sensitivity and resourcefulness of Schmitt's aural imagination are confirmed in the chamber and piano pieces heard here. Some are infused with joy, others with sorrow, but they all speak a musical language that aims to speak to the listener directly.

TRACKLIST

1. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 1, Traum (Live)
2. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 2, Komm mit (Live)
3. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 3, Wollust (Live)
4. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: 4 Lieder zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse: No. 4, Blauer Schmetterling (Live)
5. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Etüde for Piano
6. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Aria for Cello & Piano
7. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: …im Juli 1983…
8. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Volo for Clarinet & Piano
9. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Three Pictures for Piano: No. 1, –
10. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Three Pictures for Piano: No. 2, –
11. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Three Pictures for Piano: No. 3, –
12. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: 14 Variations on "Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein" for Clarinet, Cello & Piano
13. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Für Hannah
14. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Memoriae: No. 1, Chinesisches Totengedicht (Live)
15. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Memoriae: No. 2, Meiner Mutter (Live)
16. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Memoriae: No. 3, Ägyptisches Totengebet (Live)
17. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: "Memoriae: No. 4, Zitat aus Hölderlins "Hyperion" (Live)
18. Anke Vondung, Alan Valotta, Rüdiger Adami, Christoph Berner, Werner Heinrich Schmitt, Clara Schumann Quartet - Schmitt: Primavera!



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