Wolfram Lorenzen

Wolfram Lorenzen (born May 14, 1952 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 15, 2020 Dällikon ) was a German pianist .

Wolfram Lorenzen studied with Klaus Linder (Basel), Ludwig Hoffmann (Munich) and Paul Badura-Skoda . Master classes and a. with Wilhelm Kempff . Lorenzen emerged as a prize winner from various national (Federal German Music Council) and international competitions (Monza, Vercelli, Senigallia and others).

In 1982 he was awarded 1st prize at the 6th International Piano Competition in Montevideo / Uruguay. Since then, concert tours have taken him to 50 countries around the world. He has performed with well-known orchestras and renowned conductors, performing 70 piano concertos as well as an extensive solo repertoire and around 400 chamber music works .

Wolfram Lorenzen is a guest at radio stations in German-speaking countries and at many festivals such as Lucerne, the Salzburg Festival, the Festival van Vlaanderen and the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival.

He has worked with clarinetist Sabine Meyer and flautist Peter-Lukas Graf for many years.

Together with the violinist Renate Eggebrecht and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet, the pianist recorded the piano chamber music edition by Max Reger on three CDs. In 1998 the pianist released the world premiere CD recording of the autograph fair copy of the piano cycle "The Year" by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel . His CD recordings of Robert Schumann's piano works were released in 2006 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death. In 2010 he released a second album with works by Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann .

Recordings

• Robert Schumann, Faschingsschwank op.26, Fantasiebilder op.12, Symphonic Etudes op.13, 2006. Abegg Variations op.1, Novellettes op.21, 2010
• Clara Schumann, Sonata in G minor (1841), 2010
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, "The Year", 12 character pieces for piano based on the fair copy from 1842, piano pieces in C major and A flat major, 1998
• Max Reger, violin sonata op.72 (Renate Eggebrecht violin), piano quintet op.64, piano trio op.102, piano quartets opp. 113 and 133 (Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet), 1996-98.
• Max Reger, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F minor op. 114 (1910), St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Reinhard Petersen. 2010
• Max Reger, Sonatinas op. 89 No. 1 and No. 3 (1905–1908), Five Humoresken op. 20 (1898), Variations on a Theme by Johann Sebastian Bach op. 81 (1904), 2010
• Béla Bartók, Rhapsody for piano and orchestra op.1 (1904), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, conductor: Jiri Starek, 2010
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Capriccio brilliant for piano and orchestra op.22 (1832), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, conductor: Ernest Bour, 2010

Web links

• Works by and about Wolfram Lorenzen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography and discography with audio samples
• Festival The Next Generation III (Harenberg)
• Schleswig-Holstein Festival

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pianist Wolfram Lorenzen has died. In: klassik.com. June 26, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 .