Florian Krumpöck – My Second Self (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

Florian Krumpöck – My Second Self (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

Pianistic discoveries: since the Pianist Florian Krumpöck also conducts, he has become even more aware of his responsibility for every single note. In contrast to the orchestral interplay, he has to take over the entire keyboard alone. This ended in a new version of the solo part for Dvorak’s early piano Concerto, op. 33 and a late, intense love for Chopin. Both combined open up new perspectives for the audience. Florian Krumpöck is a curious bridge builder who gets to the bottom of things with a certain composure. He has time for many things and yet never loses sight of the essentials. A few more notes for Dvorak here and a deliberately natural Rubato for Chopin there. In between there is also time and leisure for a charming exchange of ideas in the coffee house.

Alder – Eröd – Nagy – Lehmkuhl – Iván Erod – Lieder (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Alder – Eröd – Nagy – Lehmkuhl – Iván Erod – Lieder (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

He liked to regard himself as an opera composer, though he could equally be labelled as a symphonic composer in consideration of his three substantial symphonies and numerous other orchestral works, or as a master of chamber music owing to his three string quartets, piano trios and much more besides. In regard to his most commonly performed piece, the one-minute choral movement „Viva la musica“, he can be identified as a virtuosic choral composer. In comparison Iván Eröd may not be anchored in the audience’s consciousness as a creator of song cycles, and yet he had closer ties to precisely this genre than might initially be thought.