Deutsche Volkslieder Martin Stadtfeld

• Traditional: Ännchen von Tharau:
• 1Traditional: Ännchen von Tharau02:38
• Guter Mond:
• 2Traditional: Guter Mond02:02
• Auf auf zum fröhlichen Jagen:
• 3Traditional: Auf auf zum fröhlichen Jagen01:39
• Aber heidschibumbeidschi:
• 4Traditional: Aber heidschibumbeidschi01:41
• Kein Feuer keine Kohle:
• 5Traditional: Kein Feuer keine Kohle01:31
• Weißt du wieviel Sternlein stehen:
• 6Traditional: Weißt du wieviel Sternlein stehen03:12
• Es klappert die Mühle:
• 7Traditional: Es klappert die Mühle01:32
• Es waren zwei Königskinder:
• 8Traditional: Es waren zwei Königskinder02:23
• Es dunkelt schon in der Heide:
• 9Traditional: Es dunkelt schon in der Heide02:15
• Steigerlied:
• 10Traditional: Steigerlied02:18
• Wer hat die schönsten Schäfchen:
• 11Traditional: Wer hat die schönsten Schäfchen02:09
• Die Gedanken sind frei:
• 12Traditional: Die Gedanken sind frei02:12
• Wenn alle Brünnlein fließen:
• 13Traditional: Wenn alle Brünnlein fließen01:22
• Zwischen Berg und tiefem Tal:
• 14Traditional: Zwischen Berg und tiefem Tal02:48
• Bald gras ich am Neckar:
• 15Traditional: Bald gras ich am Neckar00:56
• Im Krug zum grünen Kranze:
• 16Traditional: Im Krug zum grünen Kranze02:59
• Ade nun zur guten Nacht:
• 17Traditional: Ade nun zur guten Nacht01:36
• Es es es und es:
• 18Traditional: Es es es und es01:51
• Freiheit die ich meine:
• 19Traditional: Freiheit die ich meine02:51
• Geh aus mein Herz:
• 20Traditional: Geh aus mein Herz01:01
• Der Mai ist gekommen:
• 21Traditional: Der Mai ist gekommen01:55
• Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus:
• 22Traditional: Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus02:28
• Das Lieben bringt große Freud:
• 23Traditional: Das Lieben bringt große Freud01:12
• Im Märzen der Bauer:
• 24Traditional: Im Märzen der Bauer02:34
• An der Saale hellem Strande:
• 25Traditional: An der Saale hellem Strande01:54
• In einem kühlen Grunde:
• 26Traditional: In einem kühlen Grunde03:37
• Der Mond ist aufgegangen:
• 27Traditional: Der Mond ist aufgegangen00:48
• Schlafe mein Prinzchen:
• 28Traditional: Schlafe mein Prinzchen02:55
• Guter Mond (Fassung für Klavier zu vier Händen, arr. by Martin Stadtfeld):
• 29Traditional: Guter Mond (Fassung für Klavier zu vier Händen, arr. by Martin Stadtfeld)01:16
• Kein schöner Land:
• 30Traditional: Kein schöner Land02:42
• Total Runtime01:02:17

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Whether "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" or "Es klappert die Mühle", whether "Der Mai ist gekommen" or "Schlafe, mein Prinzchen" - when you hear the titles of these folk songs alone, you immediately have the corresponding melody in your ear and the lyrics in your head. After all, generations of children have grown up with these catchy songs, and even as an adult, one likes to be touched again by the timelessness of these songs: "Folk songs seem to correspond to a kind of primordial tone of the human soul," finds the German master pianist Martin Stadtfeld.

He, too, grew up with many folk songs, of course, and as the father of a child, he has been increasingly occupied with folk songs again in recent years. So he had the idea to arrange 30 of his favorite songs (and those of his son) for piano himself and record them for Sony Classical.

The new album features piano arrangements of well-known songs such as "Guter Mond, Du gehst so stille", "Ännchen von Tharau", "Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus" or "Die Gedanken sind frei". With the piano version of the famous "Steigerlied", Stadtfeld pays homage to his adopted home in the Ruhr region.

The arrangements of the German folk songs were written in the second Lockdown. "The folk song was like a lifeline for me," Stadtfeld explains. "These melodies made something in me ring out, and their brilliant simplicity probably touches every soul. Even though I didn't know some of these wonderful songs before, they seemed familiar to me, too. For the feelings that folk songs negotiate are ancient and yet always new."

For the arrangements, Stadtfeld resorted here and there to the old passacaglia form. He also arranged "Guter Mond" for piano four hands (it can be heard with a 12-year-old junior pianist). In addition, Stadtfeld gave expression to his personal feelings about the subject of each song in his own preludes and postludes. And in some of them, the proximity to the music of great composers is also recognizable. For example, Stadtfeld interwove melodies by Mozart and Beethoven in the two songs "Der Mai ist gekommen" and "Es, es, es und es," respectively.

And what are his favorite folk songs? ""Es waren zwei Königskinder" and "Ade nun zur guten Nacht," a heartfelt farewell song," says Martin Stadtfeld.

Martin Stadtfeld, piano
Bela Plicht, piano

Martin Stadtfeld
born 1980 gave his début recital at the age of nine, and was only 13 when he enrolled at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt to study with Lev Natochenny. He created a stir in 2002 when he became the first German pianist to win the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. First prize in this prestigious contest, which hadn't been awarded for 14 years, opened the doors to the leading Bach festivals (Ansbach, Stuttgart, Köthen) for the young artist, as well as to other important music festivals.

Concert tours have since taken him to all the leading music centres in Europe, the USA and Japan, and he has given solo recitals to full houses in all major German cities, in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo and at the Salzburg Festival. He has also played in orchestral concerts together with the Munich Philharmonic, London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, the Residentie Orkest den Haag, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester and the Dresden Staatskapelle.

Martin Stadtfeld records exclusively for Sony Classical. His début CD with Bach's Goldberg Variations was released in 2003 to effusive praise from the critics, and rapidly rose to first position in the German classical charts. In October 2004 Martin Stadtfeld was awarded the "Echo Klassik" prize for this CD as "Young artist of the year". His sophomore album, "Bach Pur", featured Bach's three-part inventions and his Italian Concerto, as well as transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni and Alexander Siloti, and again went to no.1 in the German classical charts; in 2005 the pianist was awarded another "Echo Klassik" prize for the "Solo recording of the year". Martin Stadtfeld's great passion is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, but to quote the weekly paper Die Zeit, Bach is certainly "the alpha and omega of his thinking, but by no means the entire alphabet. The young German artist can do a lot more than just play Bach".

In autumn 2005, in time for Mozart Year, Martin Stadtfeld released Mozart's piano concertos no. 20 & 24, recorded together with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under Bruno Weil, which the music press praised as an "interpretation at once totally alert and highly sensitive". February 2006 saw the release of the CD "Kleine Stücke" with 16 Bach preludes and Robert Schumann's Bunte Blätter. Martin Stadtfeld then went on to record three keyboard concertos by Bach, with Achim Fiedler conducting the Festival Strings Lucerne. This CD was released in the autumn of 2006, and was awarded the "Echo Klassik" prize for the "Best concerto recording" in 2007. For his next CD, the young pianist turned his attention to Schubert, releasing the two sonatas D.960 in B flat major and D.984 in G major in September 2007. German trade magazine Audio chose this recording as its classical CD of the month, writing that "Martin Stadtfeld makes the piano sing. His approach is unusual and unfamiliar-sounding, cheeky and typically Stadtfeld. But once you've got used to it, these interpretations afford immense pleasure". "Echo Klassik" once again honoured the new CD with an award as its "Best solo recording (19th century)" in 2008.

The recording of the first part of Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" was made in the Dortmund Konzerthaus, and was released in October 2008 accompanied by a second CD made as a co-production with the broadcasting station SWR: Martin Stadtfeld explains to a 12-year-old girl the special features of the work, using extracts from the score that he plays on the piano, the harpsichord, a clavichord and an organ. Martin Stadtfeld has been working together with the Dortmund Konzerthaus for many years now. In addition to regular recitals there as part of the concert series "Junge Wilde", he has also gone to some lengths to engender interest in classical music among pupils from problem schools: he visits schools, talks to the children about his work as a pianist, presents music to them, especially music by Bach, and invites them to attend one of his concerts.

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