"MiniatURvertrauen" - Rudi Spring
Alessa Records ALC 2001
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MiniatURvertrauen - music for solo piano from Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Rudi Spring - piano

1.
 Impromptu op. 5 No. 1 (1893) | Three pieces from op. 58 (summer 1909)
2.51
2.
 Rêverie
4.19
3.
 Scherzino
1.37
4.
 Air varié | Sonatine in F sharpe op. 67 No. 1 (summer 1912)
4.30
5.
 Allegro
2.56
6.
 Largo
2.25
7.
 Allegro moderato | Two Rondinos op. 68 (autumn 1912)
1.44
8.
 in G sharp
3.00
9.
 in C sharp
1.50
10.
 Valsette op. 40 No. 1 (december 1912)
1.05
11.
 Impromptu op. 5 No. 6 (1893)
3.43
12.
 Danse élégiaque aus Scaramouche op. 71 (1913/14)
5.03
13.
 Pensée mélodique op. 40 No. 6 (1914)
1.18
14.
 Capriccietto op. 76 No. 12 (1914)
0.53
15.
 Aspen [Die Espe] op. 75 No. 3 (1914)
2.30
16.
 Harlequinade op. 76 No. 13 (1916)
1.12
17.
 Humoreske op. 97 No. 6 (1920)
1.38
18.
 Linnaea op. 76 No. 11 (1918)
1.36
19.
 Mélodie op. 94 No. 5 (1919)
1.57
20.
 Humoreske op. 97 No. 1 (1920)
1.45
21.
 Die Dorfkirche op. 103 No. 1 (ca. 1923/24) | Five sketches op. 114 (1929)
2.47
22.
 Landschaft
2.45
23.
 Winterbild
1.51
24.
 Der Deich
1.36
25.
 Lied im Walde
1.52
26.
 Frühlingserscheinung
1.47
total time:
61.31
 
 
 
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Rudi Spring was born in 1962 in Lindau on Lake Constance. Among his most influential mentors during the years spanning 1971 to 1975 was Alfred Kuppelmayer, to whom he owes his insight into harmony and counterpoint, analysis, composition and piano. In 1978 Spring began his studies in chamber music with the cellist Heinrich Schiff with whom he often performed. This partnership lasted until 1982 and led to several new compositions.
Rudi Spring has been active as a church organist and since 1985 as a conductor. From 1981 until 1986 he studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer and piano with Hermann Mrongovius at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. He has taught Lied interpretation at the same institute since 1999.
Several radio and CD recordings document his activities as a chamber music pianist and an aLied accompanist. A recital of solo piano music by C.P.E Bach, J.S. Bach and W.F. Bach titled “Bach Dreifach” was released on the ADERA label in 2000. Under his own name he produced “Auf Schuberts Spur,” a 3-CD set recorded in 2003, devoted to the period of the piano sonatas of 1823-26. Spring continues to give solo recitals as well as create and perform chanson programs.
He has worked extensively for many years with the violinist Erich Höbarth, the accordionist Maria Reiter and the singer Salome Kammer.
In recent years Rudi Spring has received commissions by the State of Baden-Wüttemberg, the Munich Puppet Players, the International Bodensee Festival and the Hugo-Wolf-Akademie, Stuttgart.
He was awarded the International Bodenseekulturpreis in 2002 and invited as Artist in Residence to Rome (Villa Massimo) in 2005.

Rudi Spring considers teaching (chamber music and theory), interpretation (as a pianist and conductor) and composition unseparable fields. The various aspects of his career mutualy influence and inspire eachother.
Alex Pinter Quartet
 
     
 
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