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Welcome to this site, which is devoted to the musical compositions of the celebrated 19th century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. These are performed by the leading interpreter of these works, JOHN BELL YOUNG, who introduced them to the world in 1990 and again in 1992 with his critically acclaimed recordings on the Newport Classics label.
PLEASE NOTE: Save for the sample from the new NMP recording, just released in October 2003, the works featured on this site were recorded in concert at Steinway Hall, New York in April 1992 with pianist John Bell Young in collaboration with tenor John Aler, violinist Nick Eanet, and pianists Constance Keene and Thomas Coote. They are NOT taken from his studio recordings, on the Newport Classics label,which are now the exclusive property of Sony Classical Records.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! OCTOBER 23, 2003
The Nietzsche Music Project has just released its new recording of the music of Friedrich Nietzsche. This is an entirely new disc, featuring pianists Manolis Papasifakis, Thomas Coote, tenor David Blackburn, and violinist Christian Hebel
This spectacular 2 CD set includes a CD-Rom with excerpts from the extraordinary documentary film, Zarathustra's Drunken Song, narrated by the distinguished stage and screen actor, Fritz Weaver, and also available in German.
For more information, including audio samples, please visit www.nmp-online.org and to order, go to www.cdbaby.com/nietzsche
The Piano Music of Friedrich Nietzsche available from Berkshire Record
Outlet
The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche (NMP) available from CD BABY
 Prisms
 Nietzsche
 The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche (NMP)
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| I am joined here by the distinguished tenor JOHN ALER. Though the German title of this song is "Beschworung," the original poem that Nietzsche set to music in this instance is in Russian. Pushkin wrote this woeful verse of a man who invokes the ghostly image of his beloved, evidently killed by his enemies. | |
Credits: Producers: John Bell Young and Tali Makell |
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| Tenor John Aler once again joins me in this Hymn to Life, perhaps Nietzsche's most poignant lied. The text, by Lou Salome, who was long the object of his intellectual and emotional infatuation, held special meaning for him. Once again, he uses motivic material that he did in several other works, including the notorious Manfred Meditation for piano four hands. |
CD: NIETZSCHE LIVE!
Label: ENIGMA
Credits: Producers: John Bell Young and Tali Makell |
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| The Manfred Meditation is Nietzsche's most famous musical composition, not only due to its revival after its long neglect in the repertoire, but for the controversy it stimulated in its own day. Hans von Bulow, to whom Nietzsche sent a copy of the score, proclaimed the philosopher/composer had, with this work,"raped the muse of Euterpe." That was an unfair judgement, one born out of von Bulow's irrational jealousy of Nietzsche's close friendship with Richard and Cosima Wagner; Cosima had left her husband von Bulow for Wagner some years earlier. In fact, the Manfred Meditation, which forms one part of a three part "autobiographical" trilogy of works using identical motivic material, is a most persuasive composition. It is also one of the few Nietzsche penned that actually quotes Wagner, in this case the latter's Siegfried Idyll (which, not coincidentally, and further inciting von Bulow, Wagner composed as a birthday gift for Cosima.) The Manfred Meditation is very much an orchestral work, one that cries out for orchestration, something that Nietzsche had very much wanted to do, but never did. Written for one piano, four hands, I am joined here by Thomas Coote, a superb pianist and a noted Debussy scholar, who plays the bass part. | MP3.com CD: NIETZSCHE LIVE VOL 1! -  buy it!
CD: NIETZSCHE LIVE!
Label: ENIGMA
Credits: Producers: John Bell Young, Tali Makell |
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