Weber,Katharina In Marta'S Garden CD

Fred Frith describes the Swiss pianist Katharina Weber as a "piano icon". The classically trained pianist and composer moves in the large world of today's music, where borders no longer exist and new music and jazz improvisation merge. In Mrta's Garden is her second solo album. The musical framework is formed by two piano pieces by Gy?rgy Kurtg dedicated to Mrta Kurtg and at the centre is his composition "... eine Wanderung mit Robert Walser... ". The exchange with the Kurtgs, which has now lasted three decades, has left intensive traces in Katharina Weber's work - as a performer, as an improviser and as a composer. Like Kurtg, Weber creates her own sound cosmos. Inspired by intimate listening in meditative contemplation, not shying away from tonality, but emphasising colour, tonal tensions and overtones - at the same time an invitation and space for deeper listening, pondering, spinning forth," writes Nina Polaschegg in the liner notes.

1. Hommage a Kurtag Marta 2. Extemporale I 3. On More Animal for Marta's Garden 4. Extemporale II 5. Fuer Marta Kurtag 6. Extemporale III 7. Fuer Gyoergy Kurtag 8. Extemporale IV 9. Quasi Campane 10. Extemporale V 11. Jimbo's little Revenge 12. Extemporale VI 13. Im Gedenken an Marta Kurtag 14. Extemporale VII 15. Ein Winken von Ferne 16. Extemporale VIII 17. Windhauch in den Blaettern 18. Extemporale IX 19. Eine Wanderung mit Robert Walser 20.