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Cord Garben (born February 11, 1943 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German pianist , conductor , producer and arranger .

Career

Cord Garben studied school music, piano and conducting at the State University of Music in Hanover. After completing his studies, he became a repetitor ( vocal coach ) at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover for a short time . In 1972 he became a classic producer at Deutsche Grammophon and supervised, among others, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Herbert von Karajan , Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Mstislav Rostropovitch and, from 1984, all opera productions for which he received 7 Grammys. During this time he also recorded around 60 lied CDs, mostly for classic production osnabrück , including the first complete recording of all original lied and ballad compositions by Carl Loewe . This does not include the ballad fragments that are occasionally referred to as “missing” and actually completed by others, as well as “home cooking” that Loewe wrote for the Prussian King Wilhelm IV in Potsdam (also called “Hurray songs”). For the CD of the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1992 under Carlos Kleiber, he and the conductor did the post-production (Sony).

Cord Garben is President of the Johannes Brahms Society Hamburg and honorary member of the International Carl Loewe Society in Löbejün.

Publications

literature

• For the interpretation of the song cycles by Franz Schubert. Wagner, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-88979-080-4 .
• Walking a tightrope with a genius. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. With audio CD. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-43450524-2 .
• Looked at the fingers. On the faithfulness of great pianists. Staccato, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-932976-56-8 .
• Piano doctor. A guide for large and small piano players. Staccato, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-932976-60-5 .
• Past luck ... the art and fate of legendary pianists . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2018, ISBN 978-3-7959-1013-6 .
• Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Walking a tightrope with a genius. With audio CD. Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2019, ISBN 978-3-7959-1034-1 .
• The cool art of perfection. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 2020, ISBN 978-3-7959-1042-6 .

Processing (selection)

• Franz Schubert : Concerto arpeggione for violoncello and orchestra based on the cello sonata. Sikorski.
• Johannes Brahms : Cello Concerto after the Double Concerto op. 102. Peters.
• Johannes Brahms: Adagio from the Violin Concerto (Ob., Klav.) And Andante from the 2nd Piano Concerto in B flat major (Vc., Klav.) Sikorski.
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Piano Concerts in G minor and D minor as a quintet (with string quartet); 6 songs without words for piano trio. Sikorski.
• Richard Wagner / Engelbert Humperdinck : Main scenes from “Parsifal” in Humperdinck's version for chamber orchestra, transferred from the autograph and set up for concert use. Self-published.
• Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung. For the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, version shortened to a duration of 7 hours. Premiere 2012. Self-published.

CDs

as a pianist:

• Carl Loewe: Songs & Ballads (Complete Edition) , Vol. 1–21. cpo.
• Alexander von Zemlinsky : songs. Total recording. DGG.
• Hector Berlioz : songs. DGG
• Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and others

as a conductor:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25 concert recording with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon 1989.

Web links

• Own website