Albert Anker: Malstunden bei Raffael (Piano Music by Edvard Grieg) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Oliver Schnyder

• 1 Grieg: 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: No. 2, The Last Spring 05:14
• 2 Grieg: Holberg Suite, Op. 40: No, 4, Air 05:31
• 3 Grieg: 7 Lyric Pieces, Op. 47: No. 3, Melody 03:14
• 4 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 62: No. 5, Phantom 02:49
• 5 Grieg: 7 Lyric Pieces, Op. 47: No. 7, Elegy 03:08
• 6 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: No. 4, Notturno 03:35
• 7 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 68: No. 4, Evening in the Mountains 03:10
• 8 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: No. 6, Bell ringing 04:02
• 9 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 65: No. I, From Days of Youth 05:06
• 10 Grieg: 7 Lyric Pieces, Op. 71: No. 1, Once upon a Time 03:46
• 11 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 65: No. 3, Melancholy 03:54
• 12 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 57: No. 6, Homesickness 03:52
• 13 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: No. 5, Scherzo 03:20
• 14 Grieg: 7 Lyric Pieces, Op. 71: No. 3, Puck 01:02
• 15 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 65: No. 5, In Ballad Style 03:23
• 16 Grieg: 6 Lyric Pieces, Op. 62: No. 2, Gratitude 03:38
• Total Runtime 58:44

Info for Albert Anker: Malstunden bei Raffael (Piano Music by Edvard Grieg) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Oliver Schnyder, probably the most promising Swiss pianist of his generation, has recorded the soundtrack to a film by Heinz Bütler about the Swiss painter Albert Anker. A selection of the most beautiful and popular "Lyrical Pieces" by Edgard Grieg is musically set to the multi-layered portrait of the Swiss artist. The film "Malstunden bei Raffael" (Painting Lessons with Raphael) opens up the work, thinking and life of the great Swiss painter for the first time in a cinematic way far beyond the well-known and often clichéd: In "Albert Anker. Painting Lessons with Raphael", a "room of wonders" is the starting point of the journey through time to Albert Anker (1831-1910). For the studio in the painter's farmhouse in the Seeland village of Ins is one of the very few artists' studios of the 19th century that has been preserved in its original state - a spectacular time capsule "curated" by Anker himself with pictures, photos, books, documents, bizarre items, letters and objects of painterly and everyday use.

Synopsis: For the first time, a film explores the work, thinking and life of the great Swiss painter far beyond the well-known and often clichéd: "Albert Anker. Painting Lessons with Raphael" by the renowned director Heinz Bütler. The starting point of the journey through time to Albert Anker (1831-1910) is a room of wonders. For the studio in the painter's farmhouse in the Seeland village of Ins is one of the very few artists' studios of the 19th century that has been preserved in its original state - a spectacular time capsule "curated" by Anker himself with pictures, photos, books, documents, bizarre items, letters and objects of painterly and everyday use.

And if there was anyone who could open up Anker's world for this film in a personal, touching, humorous and knowledgeable way, it is the musician and author Endo Anaconda (1955-2022). It almost seems as if we are listening to Albert Anker himself in the film through Endo's voice, as he talks about his life as an artist. Pianist Oliver Schnyder plays the film's soundtrack on the concert grand piano, but does not shy away from the out-of-tune family piano in the Anker home. Art historian Nina Zimmer gets to the bottom of Anker's art and wants to find out: Where is Anker really good?

And finally, this moving and multi-layered film has brought us closer to an Albert Anker who belongs not only in the museum, but also in our hearts.

Oliver Schnyder, piano

Oliver Schnyder
was born on October 3, 1973 in Brugg (Switzerland). He studied with Emmy Henz- Diémand in Aarau as well as in Homero Francesch’s masterclass in Zurich. After his solo exams he continued with Ruth Laredo in New York, before completing his studies with Leon Fleisher in Baltimore between 1998 and 2001. On his return to Europe his career went from strength to strength. In 2002 he was invited to the Orpheum Musikfesttage, where his debut with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman was received with unanimous praise by public and press. This marked the beginning of a development which would take him to the most important world concert halls and music festivals. The international media have dubbed Oliver Schnyder a “piano poet” and like to compare his aesthetic approach with that of great pianists such as Kempff, Schnabel, Fischer, Barenboim, Perahia or Brendel. Oliver Schnyder has worked with orchestras such as the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, the Philharmonia London, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony, the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne and most of the major orchestras of his native Switzerland, including the Tonhalle Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Basle Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Saint Gall Symphony, Biel Symphony Orchestra, Argovia Philharmonic, Camerata Berne, Chamber Aartists, under conductors such as John Axelrod, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Howard Griffiths, Philippe Jordan, Mario Venzago, Muhai Tang, and David Zinman. The 2014/15 season will include debuts with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Also, he will be performing at the Lucerne Festival and tour England and Switzerland with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields led by Julia Fischer. He will also be the first season’s “Artiste Etoile” in the history of the Berne Symphony Orchestra with several solo appearances and a UK tour under the baton of Mario Venzago. Oliver appeares in the most important concert venues in Europe, North America and Asia such as Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Kölner Philharmonie, Herkulessaal, Carnegie Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Moscow Great Hall, and at music festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele. His chamber music collaboration with violinist Andreas Janke and with the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger led in 2012 to the founding of the Oliver Schnyder Trio. For RCA Red Seal (Sony) Oliver has recorded piano concertos by Haydn (Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields/Andrew Watkinson)), Mendelssohn (Musikkollegium Winterthur/Douglas Boyd), Mozart (Camerata bern/Erich Höbarth), and piano works by Schumann and Liszt to great critical acclaim (Choc de Classica, Diapason, ICMA, Fono Forum). His numerous radio and television recordings (BBC, SRF, SWR, WDR, BR, NDR) amply demonstrate the high quality of his art.

Since 2013, Oliver is the co-founder and artistic director of Piano District, a new piano series in his home town Baden, Switzerland.

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