Ballade.Rauschen by Hans Thomalla / Yumi Suehiro

The album presents Hans Thomalla's works for piano solo recorded by Yumi Suehiro. The album presents Hans Thomalla's works for piano solo recorded by Yumi Suehiro. The CD features three works from different periods in the composer's oeuvre: The early Fragment, influenced by seminal works of the 1960s and 1970s European Avantgarde; Piano Counterpart, with its extensive use of historic objects from the classical piano repertoire; and the piece that lends its title to the album, Ballade.Rauschen, an almost 22-minute long melodic thread spun over the keyboard, experiencing extensive accelerations and decelerations, accumulations into massive blocks of sounds, brief windows into historic memory, and threats of both silence and noise. 
Yumi Suehiro, one of the most versatile and accomplished pianists of contemporary music and a long-time collaborator of the composer, recorded the works at New York's Oktaven Audio Studio, and at Patrych Sound Studios between 2021 and 2024.

Hans Thomalla, is a German-American composer living in Chicago. He has written chamber music as well as orchestral works and a particular focus of his activity lies in composing for the stage (“Fremd”, “Kaspar Hauser”, “Dark Spring.”)
Thomalla is Professor of Music Composition at Northwestern University, where he founded and directs the Institute for New Music.

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