Blumine Reinhold Friedrich & Eriko Takezawa

• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911):
• 1 Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan": II. Blumine (Arr. A. Kratzer for Trumpet and Piano 4-Hands) 06:16
• Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (b. 1961) & Thomas Oehler: Trumpet Sonata (After R. Strauss):
• 2 Freeman-Attwood, Oehler: Trumpet Sonata (After R. Strauss): I. Allegro energico 11:59
• 3 Freeman-Attwood, Oehler: Trumpet Sonata (After R. Strauss): II. Andante cantabile 09:19
• 4 Freeman-Attwood, Oehler: Trumpet Sonata (After R. Strauss): III. Rondo. Presto 06:33
• Joseph Jongen (1873 - 1953):
• 5 Jongen: Trumpet Concertino, Op. 41 (Version for Trumpet & Piano) 08:55
• Karl Pilss (1902 - 1979): Trumpet Sonata:
• 6 Pilss: Trumpet Sonata: I. Allegro appassionata 05:49
• 7 Pilss: Trumpet Sonata: II. Adagio, molto cantabile 05:55
• 8 Pilss: Trumpet Sonata: III. Allegro agitato 03:08
• Victor Nessler (1841 - 1890):
• 9 Nessler: Der Trompeter von Säkkingen: Behüt‘ Dich Gott, es wär so schön gewesen (Arr. R. Friedrich & E. Takezawa for Trumpet & Piano) 04:44
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949):
• 10 Strauss: Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1, TrV 186 (Arr. for Trumpet & Piano) 02:46
• Gustav Mahler:
• 11 Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 9, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Arr. for Trumpet & Piano) 06:14
• Total Runtime 01:11:38

Info for Blumine

The production with Reinhold Friedrich, Eriko Takezawa and Alisa Kratzer unites original works for trumpet and piano as well as arrangements for this instrumentation. One can only share Friedrich's regret that despite numerous, sometimes even exposed orchestral solos, there are no virtuoso solo concertos for trumpet by these composers. Reinhold Friedrich, a prolific performer on major stages around the world, is a professor of trumpet at Karlsruhe, a sought-after lecturer for master classes, honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid and also in Hiroshima. Many of his recordings were awarded international prizes and got high press acclaim. Together with the versatile pianist Eriko Takezawa they form a perfectly harmonized duo whose repertoire reaches from Teleman over Gershwin to works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

"This album is a real treasure chest. Upon opening it, one immediately finds an atmospheric arrangement of Mahler’s Blumine music, in which Reinhold Friedrich, now 62 years old, plays the solo with fresh verve and youthful vigor. There is no trumpet sonata by Richard Strauss, so Thomas Oehler and Jonathan Freeman-Attwood have composed a three-movement sonata based on themes by Strauss. It is no mere transcription, but uses music from the Violin Sonata, the Serenade for Winds (From the Workshop of an Invalid) as well as Von den Hinterweltlern (Also sprach Zarathustra) and the Aria of Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) for a very free-spirited and artfully composed piece played by Friedrich and Takezawa with much verve and just as much supple lyricism. The Concertino by Joseph Jongen, composed in 1913, and the Sonata by Karl Pills, composed twenty years later, are played by the Friedrich-Takezawa duo with sophistication, style, and eminent musicianship. The rest of the album, transcriptions of works by Strauss, Nessler and Mahler is also very valuable. It all adds up to a very appealing recital at a high musical level and in a wonderfully balanced recording." (Remy Franck, pizzicato.lu)

Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet
Eriko Takezawa, piano
Alisa Kratzer, piano

Reinhold Friedrich
Born in Weingarten / Baden, Reinhold Friedrich has been a guest of all major stages around the world since his success at the ARD International Music Competition in 1986. Strongly influenced by his teachers Edward H. Tarr (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel) and Pierre Thibaud (Conservatoire Superieure de Musique Paris). He has always considered that old and new music belong together. The re-discovery of forgotten works of the Romantic period and the classical modern era lie particularly close to his heart, as does his interest in avantgarde music.

He gave his debut performance at the Berliner Festwochen with "Sequenza X" by Luciano Berio. This was followed by his first appearance as a soloist at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Vienna Academy under Martin Haselböck, playing the trumpet concerto by Joseph Haydn on the historic keyed trumpet. His involvement with historical performance practice has brought him together with a variety of orchestras such as the Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, La Stagione Frankfurt, Kammerorchester Basel, L'arte del mondo, Concerto Melante, the Berliner Barock Solisten as well as the Cappella Andrea Barca under Sir András Schiff. The focus of this collaboration was often on the 2nd Brandenburg Concerto by J.S. Bach, whose rendering is near and dear to Friedrich.

As part of his engagement with contemporary compositions, Reinhold Friedrich premiered a large number of significant works. This includes pieces by Wolfgang Rihm, Carola Bauckholt, Luciano Berio, Edison Denissov, Peter Eötvös, Hans Werner Henze, Adriana Hölszky, Nicolaus A. Huber, Luca Lombardi, Benedict Mason, Sir Peter Maxwell Davis, Hilda Parèdes, Matthias Pintscher, Jan Rääts, Rebecca Saunders, Nina Šenk, Enjott Schneider, Daniel Schnyder, Gerhard Stäbler, Eino Tamberg, Caspar Johannes Walter, Christian Wolff, and Benjamin Yusopov. Solo concerts such as "Eirene" by Herbert Willi (Wergo) and "Nobody knows de trouble I see" by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose CD recording won an ECHO Klassik in 1994, form an important part of his broad repertoire.

As a soloist, Reinhold Friedrich performed with ensembles such as the Bamberger and Wiener Symphoniker, the Staatsoper Berlin and Stuttgart, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Frankfurt Museum Orchester, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Prague, the orchestra of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and all German radio symphony orchestras; conducted amongst others by Semyon Bychkov, Dennis Russell Davies, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Fedevichev, Adam Fischer, Michael Gielen, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Manfred Honeck, Eliahu Inbal, Krystjan and Neeme Järvi, Dmitri Kitaenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, Jonathan Nott, Kazushi Ono, Matthias Pintscher, Trevor Pinnock, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, and Hans Zender.

From 1983 to 1999 Reinhold Friedrich held the position of solo trumpeter at the Radio Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. In 2003, Claudio Abbado appointed him permanent solo trumpeter of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which has been conducted by Riccardo Chailly since 2017. Furthermore, Reinhold Friedrich is the Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Brass Ensemble. Present chamber music partners of Reinhold Friedrich are Thomas Duis, Bernd Glemser, and Eriko Takezawa (piano), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion), Iveta Apkalna, Sebastian Küchler-Blessing, Martin Lücker, and Christian Schmitt (organ).

Reinhold Friedrich is a professor of trumpet at Karlsruhe University of Music, a sought-after lecturer for master classes, and honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Escuela Superior de Musica REINA SOFIA in Madrid, and as well as in Hiroshima / Japan. His former students are winners in almost all major international competitions and hold leading positions or professorships throughout Europe, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Rio de Janeiro.

Reinhold Friedrich was awarded another ECHO Klassik for the recording of the "Russian Trumpet Concerts" (MDG) with Göttinger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph-Mathias Mueller. Numerous other CD recordings document his multifaceted work, including the first recording of the trumpet concerto "Pieta" by Christian Jost (Coviello) and the recording of the second Brandenburg Concerto (Sony) with the Berlin Baroque Soloists under Reinhard Goebel, which won the OPUS Classical price of 2018. A recording of Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat (with Isabelle Faust) at the Wigmore Hall London is in the planning stage.

Upcoming concerts will lead him to the Elbphilharmonie (concert by Bernd Alois Zimmermann), to the Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra, and the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra (concert by Toshio Hosokawa), to Siberia (UA "Spirit of Siberia" by Enjott Schneider), to the National Orchestra Yerevan (concert by Ilya Chakov), to Australia with Wolfgang Rihm's trumpet concert "Marsyas" and to the Lucerne Academy Orchestra under the direction of George Benjamin, with Nuria Rial to the Handel Festival in Halle and with the Berliner Barock Solisten under Reinhold Goebel to Lutry and Versailles. He will also be performing in Katowice, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Geneva, Groningen, Hamburg, Bremen, Freiburg, Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Lyon, Armenia, Korea and Taiwan.

Eriko Takezawa
was born in Hiroshima/Japan. She studied with Naoyuki Taneda and Wolfgang Manz in Germany.

She was awarded the first prize at the international pianoforte competition in Ostuni/Italy and is prize holder of many international competitions. Besides her solo and piano duo repertory she is a specialist for chamber music and has played in Europe, the Near and Far East, amongst others in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Israel and Egypt and at many festivals like SchleswigHolstein Musik Festival, Lucerne Festival and Schwetzinger Festspiele.

After holding professorships at Musikakademie Basel/Switzerland, at „Jyske Musikkonservatorium“ in Ahrhus/Danmark and at “Musikene” in San Sebastián/Spain, she is currently teaching at at the University of Music Karlsruhe/Germany. She accompanies at many international competitions in Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Poland.

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