Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Déjà-Rêvé (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Déjà-Rêvé (2024)
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Monologues” initiate a dialog between composers and works full of creative power and musical joy. Inspired by this, the piano duo Neeb developed their debut program, which – expanded by the sonic possibilities of the percussion – conjures up the world of the “spontaneous, associative, dreamlike and even trance-like” (B. A. Z.).

With Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Monologe, the piano duo Vincent and Sophie Neeb place a rarely performed masterpiece at the center of their debut recording. The composer describes his work, premiered in 1965, as “dialogues across the ages of dreamers, lovers, sufferers and praying people”, which offers a journey through music history with sophisticated collages.

Following this inspiration, the program is completed with a contrasting selection of compositions quoted there: Works by Bach and Debussy, creatively arranged for two pianos and percussion by Johannes Xaver Schachtner, and a Mozart arrangement by the piano duo Neeb enter into a unique dialog via this inner context. 

Together with percussionists Christian Benning and Patrick Stapleton, the piano duo Neeb explores surreal dream worlds – playfully light and enigmatically profound at the same time. 

Tracklist:
01. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Debussy: Jeux – Poème dansé (Arr. For two pianos and percussion by J. X. Schachtner) (17:50)
02. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: I. Allegro (Arr. For two pianos by Piano Duo Neeb) (14:23)
03. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: I. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645) (05:30)
04. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: II. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 706 / 730 / 731) (04:27)
05. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: III. Herzlich tut mich verlangen (BWV 727) (01:17)
06. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: IV. Vater unser im Himmelreich (BWV 636) (02:08)
07. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: V. Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzugleich (BWV 732) (01:27)
08. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: VI. Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten (BWV 691) (03:06)
09. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: Bach.Choral.Exerzitien: VII. Vater unser im Himmelreich (BWV 682) – Hommage à György Kurtág (06:49)
10. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Zimmermann: Monologues for Two Pianos: I. – (01:40)
11. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Zimmermann: Monologues for Two Pianos: II. – (02:57)
12. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Zimmermann: Monologues for Two Pianos: III. – (02:58)
13. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Zimmermann: Monologues for Two Pianos: IV. – (02:06)
14. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Zimmermann: Monologues for Two Pianos: V. – (08:20)
15. Christian Felix Benning, Patrick Stapleton, Klavierduo Neeb – Schachtner: SuperInvention. Invention No. 6 for Two Pianos and Percussion (03:17)

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