Michael Rische
belongs to the small group of musicians, even internationally, who consistently enrich musical life with authoritative discoveries. This need not mean a contradiction to the standard repertoire. For with his recordings of the piano concertos by Beethoven (No. 3 in C minor) and Mozart (No. 20 in D minor), the pianist has also taken an unusual path: These are the only recordings that offer the listener a choice of cadenzas from different eras. On the other hand, his commitment to the music of the 1920s is clearly one of his discoveries: the world premiere or first performance of the piano concertos by George Antheil and Erwin Schulhoff, but also the recording of other works of this "jazz-influenced" style by Copland, Honegger, Gershwin and Ravel have made him internationally known. After Michael Rische presented a CD in the Bach Year 2000 with compositions on the notes b-a-c-h from Johann Sebastian Bach to the present, he is working with growing success to re-establish the almost forgotten piano concertos of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in musical life. In his anniversary year 2014, there was a Europe-wide direct broadcast from MDR with the Leipzig Chamber Symphony and two of his piano concertos. His recordings to date have received extensive worldwide attention. Michael Rische, born in Leverkusen, studied in Düsseldorf with Max Martin Stein (piano) and with Milko Kelemen (composition).