En passant…Selected works for piano Moritz Ernst

• Swan Hennessy (1866 - 1929): Croquis de femmes, Op. 33:
• 1 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 1. Au couvent 01:39
• 2 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 2. Bavardes 00:47
• 3 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 3. La Vieille tante 00:46
• 4 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 4. Mondaine 00:41
• 5 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 5. Jeune anglaises 01:28
• 6 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 6. Dans les jardins du Sérail 02:03
• 7 Croquis de femmes, Op. 33: No. 7. Charmeuse de serpents 02:48
• Swan Hennessy:
• 8 Au bord de la forêt, Op. 21 06:41
• Fêtes. Deux Morceaux descriptifs, Op. 36:
• 9 Fêtes. Deux Morceaux descriptifs, Op. 36: No. 1. Fête de village au XVIIIme siècle 02:04
• 10 Fêtes. Deux Morceaux descriptifs, Op. 36: No. 2. Fête populaire dans la banlieue de Paris au Xxme siècle 01:12
• En passant …Études d'après Nature, Op. 40:
• 11 En passant …Études d'après Nature, Op. 40: No. 1. Petit pâtre sur les hauts pâturages 01:38
• 12 En passant …Études d'après Nature, Op. 40: No. 2. Champs de blé au clair de lune 01:53
• 13 En passant …Études d'après Nature, Op. 40: No. 3. Dans uns petite ville flamande de dimanche 00:48
• 14 En passant …Études d'après Nature, Op. 40: No. 4. Cîmes neigeuses 02:10
• 15 En passant …Études d'après Nature, Op. 40: No. 5. Sieste en chemin de fer 02:17
• Valses caprices, Op. 41:
• 16 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 1. Valses rustique 00:57
• 17 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 2. Valse canaille 03:09
• 18 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 3. Valse distraite 00:51
• 19 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 4. Valse Boîteuse 01:50
• 20 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 5. Valse érotique 01:28
• 21 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 6. À la Reger 01:17
• 22 Valses caprices, Op. 41: No. 7. Encore une valse 01:40
• Sonatine, Op. 43:
• 23 Sonatine, Op. 43: I. Allegro appassionato 03:38
• 24 Sonatine, Op. 43: II. Tempo di Menuetto 02:53
• 25 Sonatine, Op. 43: III. Vivace ma non troppo 01:34
• Pièces celtiques, Op. 45:
• 26 Pièces celtiques, Op. 45: I. Assez lent - Beaucoup plus vite - premier movement 02:08
• 27 Pièces celtiques, Op. 45: II. Modéré, dans l'esprit d'une légende 02:27
• 28 Pièces celtiques, Op. 45: III. Très animé 01:21
• Croquis Parisien, Op. 47:
• 29 Croquis Parisien, Op. 47: No. 1. Promenade matinale au Jardin du Luxembourg 02:04
• 30 Croquis Parisien, Op. 47: No. 2. L'Américain qui a bien diné 02:10
• 31 Croquis Parisien, Op. 47: No. 3. Dans un atelier de couturiers 01:14
• Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69:
• 32 Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69: No. 1. Clamart 01:21
• 33 Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69: No. 2. Aubervilliers 00:55
• 34 Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69: No. 3. Meudon 01:05
• 35 Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69: No. 4. Robinson 00:58
• 36 Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69: No. 5. Verrières 02:09
• 37 Banlieues. Six petit pièces, Op. 69: No. 6. Bourg-la-Reine 01:40
• À la manière de….Deuxieme cahier:
• 38 À la manière de….Deuxieme cahier: VII. Alexandre Borodine 01:07
• 39 À la manière de….Quatrieme cahier: V. Emmanuel Chabrier 01:43
• 40 À la manière de….Deuxieme cahier: III. Claude Debussy - Benjamin Godard 02:43
• 41 À la manière de….Cinquieme cahier: V. Maurice Ravel 01:21
• Total Runtime 01:14:38

Info for En passant…Selected works for piano

The world premiere recording of Swan Hennessys beautiful piano pieces, performed by Moritz Ernst.

Swan Hennessy is a real discovery for lovers of impressionistic piano music from France. Swan Hennessy was born in Rockford, Illinois, of Irish origin and grew up in Chicago. Swan Hennessy's music before 1900 was heavily influenced by his conservative education and his teachers' predilection for the music of Robert Schumann.

Around the time of his move to Paris, he also been an admirer of Max Reger. Although his later music shows the influence of several contemporary stylistic directions, he never shook off this profound influence of the German Romantics.

During the period 1907 to 1913, Hennessy wrote increasingly in an Impressionist style, with a prolific series of piano works and art songs in a descriptive and programmatic style inspired by sounds in his environment including nature, traffic, and industry. He also excelled in humoristic and satirical pieces, similar to but independent from Satie.

One contemporary critic wrote, "Il fut un humoriste d'une verve drue dont la drlerie tait faite la fois d'observation et d'invention, de fantaisie et de psychologie." ("He was a humourist of great verve whose humour derived from observation and invention, fantasy and psychology").

Moritz Ernst, Klavier

Moritz Ernst
was born in1986 in Ostwestfalen, Germany and began playing the piano already at the age of five, taking lessons in Detmold. After graduating from high school at the early age of 16, he continued his piano studies in 2002 at the Detmolder Musikhochschule where he also studied musicology. During that time he was also awarded several prizes.

In 2003 he became a private student of the well known professor for piano, Peter Feuchtwanger. Shortly thereafter his concert activities were launched with regular performances in Europe and abroad.

Some years later Moritz Ernst continued his piano studies with Prof Jean-Jacques Dünki and harpsichord with Prof Jörg-Andreas Bötticher at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, thereafter his career also as harpsichordist began. During these years of study, he attended master classes and workshops held by Günter Reinhold, Paul Badura-Skoda, Ferderick Rzewski and the Auryn Quartet.

Moritz Ernst is presently concertising as pianist, harpsichordist and chamber musician performing a wide range of repertoire from baroque to contemporary music. Concerts include appearences in Germany, at the Piano Festival Feuchtwangen, the Lake Constance Festival, the Beethoven Festival Bonn; in England, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Romania, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Russia. (St. Petersburg Sound Ways Festival) He has also held master classes at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany and at The Royal Music Academy in Malmö, Sweden.

Music of the 20th and 21st century is especially dear to his heart. Ernst has premiered several works as well as collaborating closely with composers such as Eötvös, Pelzel, Winkler, Bhagwati, Wohlhauser, Olofsson, Maros and others, some of whom have dedicated works to him. In addition, he advocates the forgotten and less played composers; for example by performing Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Sonata op. 106, Feruccio Busonni‘s Fantasia contrappuntistica and the music of Samuel Scheidt, as well as music for the 16th- tone - piano. (Micro - tonality)

The international press has highly acclaimed Moritz Ernst for his superb recordings. “The Classical Music Magazine” granted him their highest rating. “Gramophone” praised his sparkling and stimulating rendition, Diapason and Fono Forum both awarded highest marks (5/5) for his Lourié and Ullmann recordings.In addition, he has performed for international radio stations such as DRS2 (Zurich), Radio Luxembourg, SR (Radio of the Saarland), DeutschlandRadio Kultur, Deutschlandfunk and BBC London.

Extensive plans for future recording projects include: the harpsichord works of Kent Olofsson, as well as the complete Sonatas by Joseph Haydn, Music of Crossings by Sandeep Bhagwati and complete piano works by Hans Erich Apostel.

He already recorded the complete piano works of Viktor Ullmann and the sonatas by Norbert von Hannenheim in connection with Deutschlandradio and the CD label EDA Records on two CDs

In 2014 the Piano Concerto by Victor Ullmann was recorded together with the Dortmund Philharmonic under Gabriel Feltz. In June 2013 Moritz Ernst gave his debut performance with the Symphony Orchestra of Bern (Switzerland) under the baton Mario Venzago with a performance of the 2nd Piano Concerto by Edward Staempfli.

In 2014, his highly acclaimed Asian debut took place.There he also held mastercalsses and lectures at the University of Malaysia and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

In 2015 several other extensive tours, most notably to Teheran and Canada (Montréal, Toronto) took place.In 2016 a 3-CD-Box with the complete piano works by Arthur Lourié was published by Capriccio, as well as other recordings, including the Viktor Ullmann piano concerto (again Capriccio) and Vol.1 of the complete Haydn piano sonatas.

In 2017 his commitment for ostrasized music led him to an appearance at Deutscher Bundestag.

Since 2018 his concert appearances have led him to perform on a worldwide scale, commuting between his native Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

His knowledge as musicologist has led to a cooperation with the Schott Verlag.

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