Enjott Schneider - Dreamin' Backwards (Various Artists)

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Composer: Enjott Schneider

• Dreamin' Backwards to My Former Time Mistress (for Renaissance flute solo)
• Schubert-Gedanken (for voice, violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano)
• Willst eine Welt du schaun (Mandalas for clarinet and piano, after a poem by William Blake)
• Requiem pour Erik Satie (for piano and congas)
• Robert Schumann's "Traumreise" (for voice, flute, bass clarinet, percussion and piano)

Christian Maria Schmidt, voice

Stefanie Pritzlaff, flute

Stefan Schneider, clarinet

Stefan Blum, percussion

Jelena Stojkovic, piano

Seraphin-Ensemble

    Winfried Grabe, violin

    Malte Koch, viola

    Markus Wagner, cello

    Konstantin Kramer, double bass

Date: 2023

Label: Ambiente

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Description

New music about old music ...journeys to the worlds of earlier times... . Current Timbre is associated with the spirit of centuries gone by, creating new dream images full of imagination and surprising to disturbing twists. The sound journey goes back to the Italian Trecento after 1200, to the English mystic and artist William Blake (1757 1827), to Franz Schubert (1797 1828), Robert Schumann (1810 1856) or to Erik Satie (1866 1925). With this CD, the label Ambiente Audio as CMS Chamber Music Series begins a series of releases of chamber music Enjott Schneider: in contrast to the large and rather anonymised orchestral sound, the works of chamber music allow the performers high individuality, freedom and personal profile. In addition, unusual ideas and occupations can be realised here far from socialised standardisations such as in a research laboratory.

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Enjott Schneider (born 1950 in Weil am Rhein) is a German composer, musicologist and educator. He studied music and humanities at Freiburg, earning a doctorate under Hans-Heinrich Eggebrecht. Schneider held academic posts in Freiburg and Munich, and later taught composition in Regensburg. He gained prominence in the 1980s as a leading film composer, scoring major German television series and films. His diverse output spans symphonies, operas, concertos and organ works, often blending styles from classical to rock. A prolific author and studio founder, he has received numerous prestigious awards for his music.

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