Josefa Schmidt

Josefa Schmidt – Dream Images (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:01 minutes | 457 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © TYXart

As in a relay race, it’s reassuring to see young pianists picking up the baton from the previous generation of musicians. It ensures that classical music performance and recording still has a future. Following many radio broadcasts of pre-recorded concerts, this appears to be the first commercial recording by pianist Josefa Schmidt (b. 1998), a former prize winner of many international piano competitions. The concept or purpose behind this assemblage of seemingly disparate piano works by this incongruous group of composers, is to create a dreamscape made-up of imagined, nebulous imagery. The common denominator that links them all is their foray into unknown or unusual daydream imagery, detached states of mind, or irrational nightmare inducing fears, as the Vera Schmidt (b. 1990) piece titled Cave Obscure (Dark Cellar) suggests. And oddly enough, it’s the piece by George Crumb that best reflects this concept in the way that it drifts in and out of memories containing strands of Chopin’s music.
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