Litta: Le lac d'amour, La déesse nue & Der Tod als Fiedler Ilona Then-Bergh & Michael Schäfer

• Paolo Litta (1871 - 1931): Le lac d'amour:
• 1 Le lac d'amour: I. Le lac 09:31
• 2 Le lac d'amour: II. Le cygne 07:58
• 3 Le lac d'amour: III. Cloches d'antan 11:16
• 4 Le lac d'amour: IV. La source qui pleure 07:22
• Paolo Litta:
• 5 La déesse nue (Version for Violin & Piano) 24:15
• 6 Der Tod als Fiedler (Version for Violin & Piano) 21:53
• Total Runtime 01:22:15

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Exceeding its length, arrogant its dedicators ("A Leonardo da Vinci" - "His Majesty, the Dead"), ruthlessly the mix of styles between medieval minstrel music and musique concrète, beguiling its beauty and frightening its brutality - this is the fascinating music of Paolo Litta that awaits you on this CD. Written by a previously completely unknown composer, rediscovered by Michael Schäfer and now recorded for the first time by Ilona Then-Bergh and himself for his edition un!erhört at GENUIN.

Let yourself be carried away by the congenial interpretation of a composition that is as diverse as what it symbolises: the whole of human life...

Ilona Then-Bergh, violin
Michael Schäfer, piano

Ilona Then-Bergh
was named the first concert-mistress of the Bavarian State Orchestra at the young age of 19. She later took the same position with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. In the meantime she has completely stopped performing in orchestras in order to be able to fully (and far more intensively) devote herself to performing chamber music as well as teaching at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater.

She has been awarded the German Record Critics’ Award (Quarterly Critics’ Choice) several times in praise of her CD productions (including Piano Trios by Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Turina and Shostakovich).

Michael Schäfer
has a propensity for featuring unusual repertoire on his recordings and has been instrumental in surprising the descendants of forgotten composers with unexpected (ASCAP) royalty earnings. In addition, he performs as a soloist, as a member of various chamber music groups, and as an accompanist on concert podiums throughout the world. Master classes in various countries and a professorship at the State Conservatory for Music in Munich allow him to pass his experience on to the next generation of musicians.

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