Eisnacht Pia Viola Buchert & Tatjana Dravenau

• Walter Arlen (1920 - 2023): Five Songs of Love and Yearning:
• 1 Arlen: Five Songs of Love and Yearning: I. O Living Flame of Love 02:16
• 2 Arlen: Five Songs of Love and Yearning: II. Shepherds, You Who Wander 02:03
• 3 Arlen: Five Songs of Love and Yearning: III. Upon a Night of Darkness 02:33
• Ursula Mamlok (1923 - 2016): Four German Songs:
• 4 Mamlok: Four German Songs: Über die Felder 01:06
• 5 Mamlok: Four German Songs: September 02:43
• 6 Mamlok: Four German Songs: Schmetterling 00:37
• 7 Mamlok: Four German Songs: Nachtgefühl 01:24
• Hans Gál (1890 - 1987): Fünf Melodien, Op. 33:
• 8 Gál: Fünf Melodien, Op. 33: No. 1 - Vergängliches / The Joys that Fled... 02:01
• 9 Gál: Fünf Melodien, Op. 33: No. 2 - Der Wiesenbach / The Woodland Brook 01:31
• 10 Gál: Fünf Melodien, Op. 33: No. 3 - Vöglein Schwermut / The Bird of Sorrow 03:29
• 11 Gál: Fünf Melodien, Op. 33: No. 4 - Drei Prinzessinnen / Three Princesses 02:31
• 12 Gál: Fünf Melodien, Op. 33: No. 5 - Abend auf dem Fluß / Evening on the Lake 02:23
• Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006) : Wildunger Liederzyklus Bd. I: Ingrids Lieder:
• 13 Schonthal: Wildunger Liederzyklus Bd. I: Ingrids Lieder: No. 1 - Eine rote Rose 02:13
• 14 Schonthal: Wildunger Liederzyklus Bd. I: Ingrids Lieder: No. 2 - Von einer weißen Rose 04:59
• 15 Schonthal: Wildunger Liederzyklus Bd. I: Ingrids Lieder: No. 6 - Manchmal 04:03
• Felix Wolfes (1892 - 1971): Eisnacht:
• 16 Wolfes: Eisnacht 02:40
• Gelbe Rose:
• 17 Wolfes: Gelbe Rose 03:12
• Vergiß, vergiß:
• 18 Wolfes: Vergiß, vergiß 02:08
• Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944): Drei jiddische Lieder, Op. 53:
• 19 Ullmann: Drei jiddische Lieder, Op. 53: No. 1 - Berjoskele 03:53
• 20 Ullmann: Drei jiddische Lieder, Op. 53: No. 2 - Margaritkelech 01:22
• 21 Ullmann: Drei jiddische Lieder, Op. 53: No. 3 - A Mejdel in die Johren 01:33
• Total Runtime 50:40

Info for Eisnacht

This new GENUIN release brings a forgotten chapter of music history back into focus: songs by Jewish composers born between 1890 and 1924, whose lives were profoundly altered by persecution and exile. Mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert and pianist Tatjana Dravenau perform works by Walter Arlen, Ursula Mamlok, Hans Gál, Ruth Schonthal, Felix Wolfes, and Viktor Ullmann – six musical voices whose creativity continued to resonate despite oppression and loss. The recording unites deep emotional intensity with refined expression and remarkable stylistic variety. It spans a broad arc—from cultural vitality and inquisitive modernity to pain, silencing, and remembrance—allowing this music to sound at once newly rediscovered and timeless.

Pia Viola Buchert, mezzo-soprano Tatjana Dravenau, piano

Pia Viola Buchert
The Würzburg mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert completed her vocal studies with Lars Woldt at the Detmold University of Music, the University of Music and Theatre Munich, and at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. Already during her studies, she was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium and was a scholarship holder with Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich and the German Music Council.

The focus of her artistic work is chamber music. She pursues her love of art song in various ensembles, for example with the pianist Tatjana Dravenau or the harpist Jenny Meyer. Lied recitals have taken her to the Philharmonie Essen, the Orchesterzentrum|NRW in Dortmund, and the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau. As a soloist, she is also a regular guest with ensembles of Early and New Music, including Ensemble Horizonte, the Bremer Barockorchester, and the Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein, as well as at festivals such as the Haller Bachtage, Musik 21, the Munich Biennale, and the Hörfest Neue Musik.

Her opera and concert activity includes numerous performances with ensembles such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Northwest German Philharmonic, the Detmold Chamber Orchestra, and the baroque orchestra Accademia di Monaco. In doing so, she has worked with conductors such as Ulf Schirmer, Ernst Theis, Paul Goodwin, and Eva Pons.

The wide-ranging artistic work of the mezzo-soprano is documented in numerous recordings and radio broadcasts.

Tatjana Dravenau
began her solo piano studies with Till Engel at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and graduated with distinction from Richard McMahon's class at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. She deepened her repertoire as an accompanist with Friedemann Berger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Parallel to her artistic training, she obtained a Diploma in Music Education in Essen and a Master of Arts/Music Education at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Her doctoral studies in music education are supervised by Peter Röbke at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and supported by a scholarship from the Gisela and Peter W. Schatt Foundation. Her piano playing has been honored with the German Schubert Society Prize for Lied Accompaniment, the Prize for Piano Accompaniment and for Piano Solo of the John Ireland Society London as well as the Lawrence Davies Memorial and the Julian Jacobson Award.

As top of her year, she represented her college in a concert with Simon Rattle at Birmingham Symphony Hall. Since 2016, she has been the official piano accompanist for the vocal participants in the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice in Zwickau.

Tatjana Dravenau develops, performs and conducts concert programs in which songs and solo works as well as poetry and prose are linked by a common theme. She has performed at the Schumann Houses in Zwickau, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Bonn, the Bürgermeisterhaus in Essen, the Mendelssohn House in Leipzig and the “im zentrum lied” series in Cologne. Other concert venues include the Thürmer-Saal Bochum, the Erbdrostenhof in Münster, the Palais Wittgenstein Düsseldorf, the VOICES festival and the Brandenburg Summer Concerts. Her concert partners include Daniel Johannsen, Hagar Sharvit, Jeeyoung Lim, Pia Buchert and Julian Orlishausen. The readings in her programs are given by Corinna Kirchhoff, Ralf Spengler, Constantin Gerhards and Anna Jörgens, among others.

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