Paolo Litta - Konzert-Trilogie fur Violine und Klavier, Der Minne-See, Die entschleierte Gottin, Der Tod als Fiedler / Ilona Then-Bergh - violine, Michael Schafer - klavier / Genuin Audio CD 2020 / GEN 20690

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You have never heard of Paolo Litta? The pianist Michael Schäfer will teach you better, because for 14 years the pianist has been digging up untiringly forgotten works in his Edition Un!erhört at GENUIN. With the concert trilogy by Paolo Litta, he and violinist Ilona Then-Bergh have discovered a particularly exciting major work of symbolism. In the successively published parts ""Der Minne-See"", ""Die entschleierte Göttin"" and ""Der Tod als Fiedler"", literature, art and music are interwoven into a total work of art. From Georges Rodenbach's novel Bruges-la-Morte, Paolo Litta took the setting and from Paul Gauguin the three-part form, which simultaneously symbolises the course of human life, birth, life and death. Richard Wagner's leitmotif flows into his work, combining all three parts. The music is very poetic, almost innocently playful in the first part ""Der Minne-See"", dramatic in the second part, in which the man's psyche struggles with suffering and doubt, and highly virtuoso in the last part, in which death approaches inexorably. On this recording, it is impossible not to hear how much Ilona Then-Bergh and Michael Schäfer merge with the composer's intentions. A discovery not to be missed!

Tracklist:

01-04  Le Lac d'Amour - Der Minne-See (1909)   36:08

          Dichtung fur Violine und Klavier nach Georges Rodenbachs

          Roman ''Bruges-la-Morte''

05   La Deesse Nue - Die entschleierte Gottin (1912)   24:15

       Esoterisches Monodram aus dem Leben Psyches

06   Der Tod als Diedler - Le Menetrier, la Mort (1924)   21:53

       Eine Virtuosen-Rhapsodie fur Violine und Klavier

• Violin - Ilona Then-Bergh
• Piano - Michael Schafer