PIETSCH,FRANZISKA/EISINGER,DETLEV - Eisinger: Works For Violin & Piano (Sealed) (CD)

As an emerging talent in the GDR, Franziska Pietsch enjoyed special state support. After her father's escape to the West in 1984, two years of reprisals by the regime followed, intensively shaping Franziska Pietsch's understanding of music: deprived of any possibility of playing concerts or taking lessons, her chosen path towards hope - against desperation, refusal, fear and despotism - led inwards. Music became the only language in which she was able to express herself freely and which gave her the necessary strength to withstand external circumstances, continuing to hope for freedom. These were the origins of the intensity and artistic depth which characterise Franziska Pietsch's playing to the present day. Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger make their audite debut with chamber works by Edvard Grieg. The three Violin Sonatas represent a major portion of his oeuvre in this field. Grieg composed at a time of national upheaval; his name stood for independence, but also for international diffusion of Norwegian music. Pietsch's second release with her piano partner Detlev Eisinger on the audite label now present music by Sergei Prokofiev. His works reflect facets of her own biography to a significant degree. As an emerging talent in the GDR, Franziska Pietsch enjoyed special state support; her musical training was thus initially shaped by the Eastern European school, bringing Prokofiev's music close to her heart. His two Violin Sonatas appear as two contrasting poles within his oeuvre - her life has also moved between extremes. This contrast of extremes is also reflected in the latest part of this series: Szymanowski's idiosyncratic, often experimental sounds meet the direct musical language of Franck's Romantic Violin Sonata. Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger bring out the thrilling contrasts with great expressiveness.