Modern Period > Schleiermacher, Steffen

John Cage: Voice & Piano; Trombone & Piano; Violin & Piano / Anna Clementi, voice; Mike Svoboda, trombone; Andreas Seidel, violin

3 CD / MD&G / 2012-11-13

Works: John Cage: Four Walls, for voice & piano; A Flower, for voice & closed piano; Experiences no 2, for voice; She is Asleep, for voice, prepared piano & 4 percussion; The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Spr...
Performers: Clementi, Anna; Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

Happy Birthday! MDG has a very special gift in store for the hundredth anniversary of John Cage's birth: three recordings featuring Steffen Schleiermacher, the Cage...continue...
Recording information: Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (06/26/2007); Fürstliche Reitbahn Bad Arolsen (06/26/2007); Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (10/01/2008)...continue...

Lampersberg: Bunte Steine (1928-2002) - Chamber works and songs / Julia Henning, soprano; Steffen Schleiermacher, piano

1 CD / MD&G / 2012-09-11

Works: Gerhard Lampersberg: Songs (3) on poems of Thomas Bernhard, for voice & piano; Blumiade, for flute & piano; Jetzt, pieces (13) for piano; Trio for clarinet, violin & snare drum; Bunte Steine, for pia...
Performers: Henning, Julia; Kreher, Matthias; Mielke, Ralf; Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas; Stopora, Stefan
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Avantgarde

Heavy-duty chord series in the piano, breathtaking leaps in the voice part, and then silence returns: emotional oppositions collide head on in Gerhard Lampersberg's songs...continue...
Recording information: Konzerthaus der Abtei Marienmünster (11/27/2011-11/28/2011)....continue...

Morton Feldman: works for Violin & Piano / Andreas Seidel, violin; Steffen Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 2012-07-17

Works: Morton Feldman: Spring of Chosroes, for violin & piano; Extensions 1, for violin & piano; Extensions 3, for piano; Vertical Thoughts 2, for violin & piano; Vertical Thoughts 4, for piano; For Aaron C...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

Steffen Schleiermacher and Andreas Seidel have gathered together pieces for violin and piano representing all of Morton Feldman's compositional periods, performed with flawless musical intuition....continue...
Recording information: Konzerthaus der Abtei Marienmünster (11/16/2009-11/17/2009)....continue...

Hauer: Atonal Etudes for Piano, Op. 22 / Steffen Schleiermacher, piano

1 CD / MD&G / 2012-03-27

Works: Josef Matthias Hauer: Etudes (9) for piano, Op. 22
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Gramophone, August 2012
Hauer does make you appreciate Schoenberg's expressive and technical genius all the more. Schleiermacher's neutral detachment - he doesn't attempt to fashion Hauer's...continue...
Recording information: Konzerthaus der Abtei Marienmünster (03/26/2010)....continue...

Hauer: Music with Hölderlin; Lieder; Piano Pieces Op. 25

1 CD / MD&G / 2011-05-03

Works: Josef Matthias Hauer: Hölderlin-Lieder, for voice & piano, Op. 6; Hölderlin-Lieder, for voice & piano, Op. 12; Piano pieces with inscriptions from words of Friedrich Hölderlin, for pia...
Performers: Falk, Holger; Schleiermacher, Steffen

Austrian Josef Matthias Hauer continues to be celebrated as the "discoverer of twelve-tone playing" at his birth house in Vienna's Neustadt but has not received...continue...
Recording information: Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (09/06/2010-09/07/2010)....continue...

The Viennese School: Teachers & Followers of Schoenberg, Vol. 2

1 CD / MD&G / 2011-01-25

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Pieces (2) for piano, Op. 33; Natalia Prawossudowitsch: Primitivi, for piano, Op. 17; Peter Schacht: Kinderstücke, for piano; Nikos Skalkottas: Suite for piano no 3; Marc Blit...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

With Vol. 2 of Schönberg & Schüler Steffen Schleiermacher, the leading interpreter of piano music of the twentieth century, rounds off the MDG series featuring...continue...
Recording information: Ehem. Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (2007-11-09&2007-01-20&2009-)....continue...

Cage: Violin & Piano

1 CD / MD&G / 2010-03-09

Works: John Cage: Six Melodies, for violin & keyboard; Two 4 for Violin and Piano/Sho; Nocturne, for violin & piano; Two6, for violin & piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

Steffen Schleiermacher’s recording of the complete piano works of John Cage has brought him his international breakthrough. These recordings earned the pianist numerous prizes, including...continue...
Recording information: Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (10/01/2008)....continue...

Feldman: Late Piano Works Vol. 3

1 CD / MD&G / 2010-01-26

Works: Morton Feldman: Piano, for piano; Palais de Marie, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

MDG's complete recording of Morton Feldman's late piano solo compositions crosses the finish line. For Vol. 3 Steffen Schleiermacher has chosen two very different works...continue...
Recording information: Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei, Marienmünster (12/19/2007)....continue...

SCENE For Children - Kurtag, Gubaidulina, Lachenmann, etc / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2009-08-11

Works: György Kurtág: Hommage à Varèse; Hommage à Kadosa, 12 microludes for piano; Microludes (12), for piano; New Microludies (12), for piano; Helmut Lachenmann: Child's Play; ...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

If you are looking for music for children that is off the beaten path Steffen Scheliermacher has gathered it all together on one CD. Some...continue...

SCENE Feldman: The Late Piano Works Vol 2 - For Bunita Marcus / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2009-03-10

Works: Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus, for solo piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Volume two of Feldman's late piano works is devoted to one piece dedicated to the former student and close colleague Bunita Marcus. Feldman's music never...continue...

SCENE Feldman: Late Piano Works Vol 1 - Triadic Memories / Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2008-09-16

Works: Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Steffen Schleiermacher once again sets out to present the piano compositions of an important twentieth-century composer. Vol. 1 of his three-part series featuring Morton Feldman's...continue...

SCENE Cage: Trombone and Piano Music / Svoboda, Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2008-08-05

Works: John Cage: Two 5 for Trombone and Piano; Variations no 1, for any number of players and means; Music for...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Svoboda, Michael

The entirety of music for the trombone by maverick composer John Cage is on this one CD. For nearly 20 years, Mike Svoboda has committed...continue...

SCENE Hommage a August Stramm - Schleiermacher, Heisig, Rihm, Vogel, Babbitt, Barlow, etc

1 CD / MD&G / 2008-05-27

Works: Steffen Schleiermacher: Die Menschheit; Frage!, for bass flute; Wolfgang Heisig: MARS SAUGT MUT; Wolfgang Rihm: Gesänge, for voice & piano, Op. 1; Gerhard Rühm: Tondichtungen für Klavi...
Performers: Falk, Holger; Hemken, Dorothea; Mielke, Ralf; Schleiermacher, Steffen; Wiedemann, Hildegard

SCENE The Viennese School - Teacher & Followers Vol 3 - Berg

1 CD / MD&G / 2008-01-22

Works: Alban Berg: Sonata for Piano, Op. 1; Hans Erich Apostel: Variations from Berg's opera "Lulu", for piano, 4 hands; Kubiniana, Op 13; Fritz Heinrich Klein: Die Maschine, for piano, 4 hands, Op. 1; Anda...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Zugehör, Markus

The triumvirate of the second Viennese school is complete. After Schonberg and Webern, Steffen Schleiermacher now presents Alban Berg and his pupils in standard-setting piano...continue...

SCENE The Viennese School Teachers and Followers Vol 1

1 CD / MD&G / 2007-10-23

Works: Anton Webern: Variations for piano, Op. 27; Stefan Wolpe: Zemach Suite (7), for piano, C. 84; Philipp Herscovici: Frühlingsblumen, for piano; Pieces (3) for piano; Leopold Spinner: Piano Sonata,...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

On this new series the pianist Steffen Schleiermacher spins a whole network of rarely explored musical interrelations. Here musicians such as Eisler, Spinner, Herscovici, and...continue...

SCENE The Viennese School Teachers and Followers Vol 2

1 CD / MD&G / 2007-10-23

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 11; Egon Wellesz: Skizzen (3) for piano, Op. 6; Józef Koffler: Musique de ballet, for piano, Op. 7; Hanns Eisler: Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3; Viktor...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Although Schonberg himself was no pianist, it was precisely with his 'Three Piano Pieces Op. 11' that he first published music serving his ties to...continue...

SCENE Stockhausen / Hemken, Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2007-09-25

Works: Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX, for piano; Michael's Youth (from "Donnerstag" from "LICHT"), for 3 soloists 3 brass, synthesizer & 3 dancer/mim; Klavierstück VII, for piano; Klavier...
Performers: Hemken, Volker; Schleiermacher, Steffen

"The beautifully recorded disc is sonically pure and acoustically realistic; its natural, unadulterated sound quality is excellent for capturing the visceral element of Stockhausen's music....continue...

Asia Piano Avantgarde - Japan Vol 1 / Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2006-06-27

Works: Toshio Hosokawa: Nacht Klänge, for piano; Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music for piano no 2; Music for piano no 3; Music for piano no 4 (for David Tudor); Music for piano no 7; Maki Ishii: Aphorismen 2, fo...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Their names sound foreign to us, but their works are strangely familiar: Japanese composers have gently opened our ears to the delicate natural sound of...continue...

SCENE American Ultramodernists / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2005-06-21

Works: Dane Rudhyar: Tetragram no 8, "Primavera", for piano; Ruth Crawford Seeger: Prelude no 9 "Tranquillo"; Carl Ruggles: Angels; Evocations, chants (4) for piano; Organum; Henry Cowell: Piece (Lento) for...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Chamber Music of the Viennese School - Berg, etc

1 CD / MD&G / 2004-08-24

Works: Alban Berg: Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin and 13 Winds; Pieces (4) for clarinet & piano, Op. 5; Josef Matthias Hauer: Pieces (4) for for violin & piano, Op. 28; Hans Erich Apostel: Sonatina for ...
Performers: Kreher, Matthias; Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Avantgarde

Not all of these composers are directly linked to the Schoenberg - Webern - Berg Viennese school but the mutual similarities are striking. The Ensemble...continue...

SCENE Piano Music of the Darmstadt School Vol 2

1 CD / MD&G / 2004-05-25

Works: Earle Brown: Corroboree for 3 or 2 pianos; Mauricio Kagel: Mimetics (Metapiece), for piano; Henri Pousseur: Caractères, for piano; Helmut Lachenmann: Echo Andante, for piano; Karlheinz Stockha...
Performers: Christof, Josef; Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Satie: Piano Music Vol 4 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2003-11-25

Works: Erik Satie: Pages mystiques (3), for piano; Carnet d'esquisses et de croquis (Notebook of Sketches and Rough Drafts), for piano; Pièces (6) de la période 1906-1913, for piano; Musiques inti...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Hauer: Atonale Musik, Op 20 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2003-10-21

Works: Josef Matthias Hauer: Atonal Pieces for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Hommage à Walter Spies / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2003-07-22

Works: Alexander Scriabin: Preludes (5) for piano, Op. 74; Hans Jürgen von der Wense: Music for piano (5); Musik for piano no 13 (für Walter Spies); Ich hatt' einen Kameraden, Groteske (Eduard Erd...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Czech Avantgarde 1918-38 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2003-04-22

Works: Pavel Haas: Suite for piano, Op. 13; Jaroslav Jezek: Bugatti-Step, for piano; Bagately, for piano; Equatorial Rag, for piano; Erwin Schulhoff: Pictoresques (5), for piano, Op. 31; Emil Frantisek Buri...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

"Back in the 1920s and 30s 'Lady Jazz' was just beginning to gain a foothold of respectability in classical music circles. Amidst their neoclassical, polyrhthmic,...continue...

Ives: Complete Muic for String Quartet / Leipzig Quartet

1 CD / MD&G / 2003-01-21

Works: Charles Ives: A Set of 3 Short Pieces, for string quartet, double bass & piano, S. 84 (K. 2B16); Fugue in C major; Adagio sostenuto; Largo Risoluto no 1, for string quartet & piano, S. 74 (K. 2B14); ...
Performers: Goritzki, Ingo; Kwak, Yeon-Hee; Schleiermacher, Steffen

"Several pieces here involve other instruments, including a marvellous depiction of Hallowe'en night, with its ribbons of scales in different keys rudely interrupted by thwacks...continue...

SCENE Riley: Keyboard Studies / Schleiermacher, Gengelbach

1 CD / MD&G / 2002-11-26

Works: Terry Riley: Keyboard Studies, for keyboard; Steffen Schleiermacher: Hommage à RILEY - REICHlich verGLASSt
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Piano Music Vol 10 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2002-11-26

Works: John Cage: Opening Dance (Entrance), for piano (for Sue Laub); Furniture Music Etcetera, for 2 pianos; Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano; Works of Calder, film score for prepared piano & ta...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 9 / Schleiermacher

3 CD / MD&G / 2002-09-24

Works: John Cage: Études australes, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

"In addition to the idea of writing etudes of increasing difficulty for the pianist, these and other series of etudes for cello and violin are...continue...

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 8 / S. Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2002-04-23

Works: John Cage: Perpetual Tango, for piano; In a Landscape; Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano; Cheap Imitation, for piano; Dream; Swinging, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage - Voice and Piano / Clementi, Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-11-20

Works: John Cage: Four Walls, for voice & piano; A Flower, for voice & closed piano; Experiences no 2, for voice; She is Asleep, for voice, prepared piano & 4 percussion; The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Spr...
Performers: Clementi, Anna; Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 7 / Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-08-28

Works: John Cage: Soliloquy, for piano; Ophelia; The Seasons, Ballet in One Act, for orchestra; Pieces (2) for Piano [ca 1935, rev 1974]; Jazz Study, for piano (authorship uncertain); Metamorphosis, for pia...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 6 / Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 2001-05-22

Works: John Cage: One2, for 1- 4 pianos; One, for piano; Etudes Boreales I-IV, for piano; The Beatles 1962-1970, for six taped channels of piano (materials drawn from The Beatles Songbook); ASLSP, for piano...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

"The music on Volume 6 is late Cage, supremely abstract and otherworldly. Given over almost entirely to atmosphere and overtone, the music floats from one's...continue...

SCENE Piano Music of the Darmstadt School / Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-01-23

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Cantéyodjayâ; Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück II, for piano; Klavierstück IV, for piano; Franco Evangelisti: Proiezioni sonore for solo piano; Aldo Clemen...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

"...This is the first disc in a series to be devoted to the piano works that came out of the Darmstadt summer schools in the...continue...

John Cage: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5 (Two Pianos)

2 CD / MD&G / 2000-08-22

Works: John Cage: A Book of Music, for 2 prepared pianos; Experiences no 1, for 2 pianos; Music for...; Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate); Three Dances, for 2 prepared amplified pianos
Performers: Christof, Josef; Schleiermacher, Steffen

"Schleiermacher's Cage series arrives at the music for two pianos, and the pair of discs serve up one delight after another. Sonic pleasures meet immaculate...continue...

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 4 / Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 2000-01-25

Works: John Cage: Winter Music, for 1 to 20 pianos; Water Music, for one or more players, piano, radio, whistles, water containers & a deck of cards; For M. C. and D. T., for piano; For Paul Taylor and Anit...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 3 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 1999-06-22

Works: John Cage: Music of Changes, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Music at the Bauhaus - Wolpe, Hauer, Antheil, et al

1 CD / MD&G / 1999-06-22

Works: Stefan Wolpe: Sonata "Stehende Musik," for piano, C. 10, Op. 1; Cinq marches caracteristiques (5), for piano, C. 58, Op. 10; Adagio no 5; Variation, for piano, C. 4/3, 70/2, Op. 5b/3; Tango for Piano...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 2 / Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 1998-07-21

Works: John Cage: Music for...; Music for Piano 1, for piano; Music for Piano 2, for piano; Music for Piano 3, for piano; Music for Piano 4 - 19, for piano or any number of pianos; Music for Piano 20, for p...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
This set is devoted to the Music for Piano series almost entirely written in the 1950s, which is neglected and mostly unavailable....continue...

Berio: Chamber Music - Serenata I, etc / Avantgarde

1 CD / MD&G / 1998-06-16

Works: Luciano Berio: Serenata I, for flute & 14 instruments; Sequenza IV, for piano; O King, for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano; Sequenza IXa, for clarinet; Linea, ballet for 2 pianos, vibra...
Performers: Büning, Tilman; Christof, Josef; Klein, Kerstin; Kreher, Matthias; Moosdorf, Matthias; Nitzsche, Winfried; Schleiermacher, Steffen; Stopora, Stefan
Conductors: Gribow, Thomas Michael
Ensemble: Ensemble Avantgarde