1-Variations on a theme by Chopin Op.22
2-Variations on a theme of Corelli Op.42
3-Prelude (posthumus) 1917- Andante ma non troppo
4-Fragments 15 november 1917- Andante semplice
5-Oriental Sketch 14 november 1917- Non allegro
6-Vocalise Op.34, no 14- Lentamente Molto cantabile
7-Fragments 15 november 1917- Andante semplice
8-Oriental Sketch 14 november 1917- Non allegro
9-Op.34, no 14- Lentamente Molto cantabile
Onno Scholtze-balance engineer
Hans Meijer- recording engineer/editor/producer
Recorded in the Hall of Castle Bergh 3-4-7-VII-2000 on a Bösendorfer grand piano
pianotuning: Tetsch & May-Emmerich- Germany
Alwin Bär (1941-2000)
In 1952, when he was eleven years old, the Dutch pianist Alwin Bär became a pupil of the well-known composer and pianist Hans Osieck. Later he studied with Piet Vincent, Willem Andriessen and Ton Hartsuiker (contemporary repertoire) in the Netherlands, and abroad with Eduardo del Pueyo, Vlado Perlemuter ( who studied with Ravel), Géza Anda, and Andor Foldes. In 1967 Alwin Bär also took the degree of MA in musicology at Amsterdam University. Alwin Bär made his début with orchestra in 1962, playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto. It was the beginning of an international career. He played with the internationally famous Dutch orchestras: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague), and many other important ensembles, with such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Edo de Waart, Jean Fournet, Kobayashi, and others. In 1975 he was awarded the First Price at the International Arnold Schoenberg Competition in Rotterdam. The competitors had to master all of Schoenberg's piano compositions, which again shows Alwin Bär's versatility. Alwin Bär was professor at the piano faculty of the Utrecht Conservatory.
Sonata No. 2, op. 36 B flat (the 1913 version)
1 Allego Agitato
2 Non allegro-Lento
3 L'istesso tempo-Allegro molto
Sonata No. 1 , Op. 28 D minor
4 Allegro moderato
5 Lento
6 Allegro molto
Steinway grand piano
Hans Meijer- recording engineer/editor/producer recording data 1997 October 22-23
Wagner-Liszt
1 - “Pilgrims’ Chorus” from “Tannhäuser”
2 - Fantasy on Themes from “Rienzi”
3 - “Am stillen Herd” from die “Meistersinger
4 - “Spinning Chorus” from “Der Fliegende Holländer”
5 - “Isolde’s Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde”
6 - “Valhalla” from “Der Ring des Nibelungen”
7 - “Solemn march” to the Grail from “Parsifal”
Recorded 13 and 14 XI 1998
C. Bechstein 185021
Pianotuning Bart Boogaard
Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) Piano music
Piano Bösendorfer 275 -1986 Heerenveen
The Netherlands
1 - The White Peacock Op.7 nr 1
2 - Nightfall Op.7 nr 2
3 - The Fountain of the Acqua Paola Op.7 nr 3
4 - The Vale of Dreams Op.5 nr 2
5 - The Lake at Evening Op.5 nr 1
6 - De profundis
7 - Clouds Op.7 nr 4
8 - Sonata (1917-1918)
9 - Barcarolle Op.6 nr 1
10-Three Preludes
11- Notturno Op.6 nr 2
12- Scherzo Op.6 nr 3
13- The Night Winds Op.5 nr 3
Armand van Ommeren recording engineer
Onno Scholtze mastering
Wim Baarens tape-editor
PASSION
Wenn Orpheus silbern die Laute rührt,
Beklagend ein Totes im Abendgarten,
Wer bist du Ruhendes unter hohen Bäumen?
Es rauscht die Klage das herbstliche Rohr,
Der blaue Teich,
Hinsterbend unter grünenden Bäumen
Und folgend dem Schatten der Schwester;
Dunkle Liebe
Eines wilden Geschlechts,
Dem auf goldenen Rädern der Tag davonrauscht.
Stille Nacht.
Unter finsteren Tannen
Mischten zwei Wölfe ihr Blut
In steinerner Umarmung; ein Goldnes
Verlor sich die Wolke über dem Steg,
Geduld und Schweigen der Kindheit.
Wieder begegnet der zarte Leichnam
Am Tritonsteich
Schlummernd in seinem hyazinthenen Haar.
Dass endlich zerbräche das kühle Haupt!
Denn immer folgt, ein blaues Wild,
Ein Äugendes unter dämmernden Bäumen,
Dieser dunkleren Pfaden
Wachend und bewegt von nächtigem Wohllaut,
Sanftem Wahnsinn;
Oder es tönte dunkler Verzückung
Voll das Saitenspiel
Zu den kühlen Füssen der
Büsserin in der steinernen Stadt.
PASSION
Joost Kleppe/Georg Trakl
Maarten Koningsberger - bariton
Alwin Bär - piano
producer- Joost Kleppe
balance-engineer / editor- Hans Meijer
Hymne Pange lingua
Versus Alleluiaticus
Dies Irae Sequentia
Graduale Haec Dies
Lauda Sion Salvatorem
Alwin Bär - organ Nederlands Hervormde Kerk ( Huis Bergh)
Thomas Weidtman, Meester Orgelmaker te Ratingen
Alwin Bär - organ Nederlands Hervormde Kerk
Thomas Weidtman, Meester Orgelmaker te Ratingen
Hymne Pange lingua
Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky, Kartinki s vïstavki
(Pictures at an exhibition)
1. Promenade-1. The Prelude and Interludes, each entitled 'Promenade', consists of one theme with variations, which conveys the idea of the composer strolling amongst the pictures.
2. The Gnome Drawing representing a dwarf, who totters with faltering steps on his little crooked legs.
3. Promenade-2
4. The old castle A castle of the Middle Ages (in Italy), in front of which a minstrel sings his song.
5. Promenade-3
6. Tuileries. Children quarreling at play. A crowd of nurses and children in an alley of the Tuileries garden (Paris).
7. Bydlo A Polish wagon with lumbering wheels drawn by oxen
8. Promenade-4
9. Ballet of unhatched chickens. Drawing designed by Hartmannn for a picturesque scene in the ballet 'Trilby'
10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle. Two polish Jews, one rich, the other poor.
11. Promenade 5
12. The market place at Limoges French market women quarreling.
13. Catacombae. In this picture, Hartmann portrays himself examining the interior of the Catacombes of Paris by the light of a lantern.
14. Con mortuis in lingua mortua. In his original manuscript Moussogsky wrote above the andante "Con mortuis in lingua mortua": The creative genius f the dead. Hartmann leading me to the skulls and apostrophizing them-the skulls suffuse a soft radiance over the interior.
15. Hut of the Baba-Yaga. This drawing of Hartmann represents a clock in the form of a hut standing on hens' claws, belonging to Baba-Yaga (the witch of Russian folk-lore) Moussorgsky has added a theme describing the departure of the witch.
16. The great gate of Kiev. This drawning of Hartmann shows his design of an entrance gate for town of Kiev in the massive style of ancient Russia, surmounted by a slavonic, helmet-shapet cupola.
17. La couturière
18. Une larme (1880)
19. Au village (1880)
20. Intermezzo
21. Plaisanterie enfantine (1859)
22. Feuillet d'album-Méditation
23. En Crimée-Capriccio
24. Impressions de voyage en Crimée
MeijerBär productions
Recording data: 1999 July 16, 17, 18, at Castle Bergh, The Netherlands
Balance engineer: Onno Scholtze
Recording engineer-editor: Hans Meijer
Pianotuning: Dolf van den Assem
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4. The old castle
15. Hut of the Baba-Yaga.
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