Perseus – Piano Works by Michael Ostrzyga

PERSEUS – PIANO WORKS BY MICHAEL OSTRZYGA
CHRISTOPH SCHNACKERTZ, KLAVIER

Perseus eröffnet ein faszinierendes Universum neuer Klaviermusik. Das vielfältige Programm vereint sämtliche der wichtigen Kompositionen für Klavier zu zwei Händen von Michael Ostrzyga, brillant gespielt von Christoph Schnackertz. Ein beeindruckendes Kaleido-skop fesselnder zeitgenössischer Musik.

Im Handel ab Mai 2025

 

Album Details

CD-Inhalt

01 PER-SONARE (INTERLUDIUM) 2010

AUS PRIMES 2023/2025
02 FIVE 2023
03 SEVEN 2023

NORDSEE-TAGEBUCH I 2020 – 2023
04 I SCHWEBENDE SCHATTEN 2020
05 II FRÜHE SOMMER 2023
06 III Ö. L. 7° 28’ 35,2” N. B. 53° 44’ 50,7” 2021
07 IV HEILIGE NACHT 1717 2021
08 V SAUM 2020

NORDSEE-TAGEBUCH II 2023
09 I WINDFLÜCHTER
10 II FLUGSAND
11 III STURM
12 IV SEENEBEL
13 V ADOLPH BERMPOHL
14 WALKS 2009 – 2016

SUITE FÜR PRÄPARIERTES KLAVIER 1999, REV. 2005/2006
15 I 1999, REV. 2005/2006
16 II 2005/2006
17 III 2005/2006

18 FAR SIDE OF THE MOON 2023
19 ERSTE STERNE (ERINNERUNG AN SÜDTIROL) 2015
20 IMPULSAR TOCCATA FÜR KLAVIER 2008/2009
21 PERSEUS 2023

Gesamtspielzeit/Total Time:  73:56

 

Artists

Michael Ostrzyga

For composer Michael Ostrzyga, the many sources of inspiration include technological, historical, mythological, and pop cultural phenomena and contexts. He has received co-missions from the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, the World Symposium on Choral Music (2023 in Turkey, 2020 in New Zealand), the YL Male Voice choir (Finland), the Stuttgart Chamber Choir, and the Alten Oper in Frankfurt. He has been performed by the Rascher Saxophone Quartet, the Janaer Philharmonie, the Rhenish Piano Duo, the New Rhenish Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Köln, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the MDR Radio Choir, Chorwerk Ruhr, Kammarkören Pro Musica, and Allmänna Sången (Sweden), pianists Yin Chiang, Klaus Oldemeyer, Christoph Schnackertz and Thomas Stumpf, as well as organists Martin Herchenröder and Johannes Geffert. Ostrzyga’s compositions have been published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Bärenreiter, Carus, and Helbling. Ostrzyga has published a completion of Mozart’s Requiem which combines for the first time historical perspectives with historically informed music theory and practice in composition, arrangement and instrumentation. The edition was published by Bärenreiter in June 2022 and immediately became a best seller. In 2021 the first recording of the new edition had already been nominated as Editorial Achievement of the Year by Opus Klassik.
Ostrzyga is also a conductor. In 2008 he was appointed university music director and conductor of the Collegium musicum at the University of Cologne. From 2007 to 2019 he directed the Oratorio Choir in Brühl. As a guest conductor, he has led the Bochum Symphony, the Neue Philharmonie in Westfalia, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Musikfabrik, and the Cologne Vocal Soloists. He has appeared at various festivals including the Brühl Castle Concerts, and ACHT BRÜCKEN.
Ostrzyga’s earliest musical training (organ, piano, and choir) took place with Bruno Zaremba, after which he went on to Cologne to study with Marcus Creed (conducting), Friedrich Jaecker (harmony), and Peter Degenhardt (piano). He graduated there in 2005.

Christoph Schnackertz

Christoph Schnackertz was born in 1984 and took his first piano lessons with Clovis Alessandri. He went on to study piano with Pierre Laurent Aimard, and vocal accompanying with Jürgen Glauss. He also served as the regular accompanist in the vocal class of Christoph Prégarien. From 2007 to 2010 Schnackertz received scholarships from the Yehudi Menuhin LiveMusicNow in Cologne.
From 2007 to 2013 he was part of a regular duo with soprano Anna Lucia Richter. Since 2012 Schnackertz has been working with Julian Prégardien. Their concert activities have taken them to Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Munich, Berlin, London, and Hamburg. In 2014, they released a CD on the label Myrios Classics in cooperation with German Radio.
During the 2014/2015 season, Schnackertz worked as a piano accompanist and musical director at the Theater am Engelsgarten in Wuppertal, where they performed a staged version of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin. With Christoph Prégardien, he has performed in Wigmore Hall in London, at the Schwetzingen Festival, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Tonhalle in Zurich. He has also performed in Schwarzenberg, Oxford, Berlin, Brussels, and Warsaw. He has worked with Juliane Banse, Julia Kleiter, Hanna Elisabeth Müller, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Christiane Karg, Thomas Bonni, Michael Dahmen, and Oskar Hillebrandt. Schnackertz has performed with the WDR Radio Choir, Chorwerk Ruhr, and the Collegium Vocale in Gent. In 2018, he released a CD with Chorwerk Ruhr under the direction of Florian Helgath devoted to works by Johannes Brahms. Schnackertz has also worked with conductors such as Marcus Creed, Christoph Eschenbach, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and has accompanied masterclasses with Christoph Prégardien, Edda Moser, Renato Bruson, Thomas Heyer, Martin Kränzle, and Christiane Karg.
As an art song accompanist, Schnackertz is a prize winner of the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin (2010 and 2011) and the International Robert Schumann Competition (2012). He won first prize at the 2012 GenRE competition in Cologne.
His repertoire takes in all the great song cycles from the Romantic period as well as lieder by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Wolfgang Rihm. His performances in numerous broadcasts have been amply documented.

P + C 2025  Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-25206
EAN: 4260130382063