Raptures
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, dedicated to the sublime state of rapture, of ecstasy.
Markus Schönewolf composes ‘music of a poetic quality, as though it were written for imaginary landscapes’ (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). Performed by outstanding soloists and ensembles, presented on stages across the world and documented on CD, Schönewolf’s ‘complex and immensely imaginative music’ (pizzicato) captivates through its ‘intellectual and emotional depth and virtuosic delight in playing’.
Projects
Songs in the Slipping Away
Songs in the Slipping Away — a large-scale song cycle for baritone and orchestra. In three movements, the work tells of life, of slipping away, of wonder, and of transfiguration.
Schwebungen
The Boreas Quartett Bremen has recorded Schwebungen and music by the Baroque composer Alessandro Poglietti on CD. The CD has been released on the audite label.
Violin Sonata
Caritas abundat — a ‘song sonata’ in three movements for solo violin – virtuosic, polyphonic, sensuously sonorous.
Media
Press
‘Schönewolf’s complex and immensely imaginative music is well served in these atmospheric interpretations.’
‘Schönewolf’s music possesses, as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a substantial magnitude that permeates every part […].’
‘Markus Schönewolf is a musical goldmine, his music as if from another world.’
‘An almost magical experience.’
About
Schönewolf’s ‘complex and extraordinarily imaginative music’ (pizzicato) is credited with ‘intellectual and emotional depth and virtuosic delight in playing’. Press, audiences and performers speak of an ‘almost magical experience’, of ‘making the impossible possible’, of the ‘beauty of unknown sound worlds’, ‘soul-filling music’, ‘music of a poetic quality, as though it were written for imaginary landscapes’.
Outstanding soloists, chamber music ensembles and orchestras perform Schönewolf’s music, which encompasses solo works – including for violin, flute, piano and organ – as well as chamber and orchestral music and concertos.
Alongside his chamber and orchestral music, Schönewolf is deeply devoted to vocal music. In addition to numerous choral works, his ‘Songs in Pictures’ for soprano and harp has been described by the press as ‘arguably the most significant cycle of harp songs’. He is currently at work on ‘Songs in the Slipping Away’, an extensive work for baritone and orchestra.
Schönewolf is a guest at numerous music festivals and works on commissions from Germany and abroad. His music has been used to introduce newly developed instruments to wider audiences, to open music festivals and to inaugurate concert venues. Speakers such as the polymath and Goethe scholar Manfred Osten have accompanied performances of Schönewolf’s works with extensive programme notes.
Markus Schönewolf studied composition, piano, music theory, school music and aural training, among other subjects, at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He completed his studies with distinction.
A native of Cologne, he lives with his family in the Bergisches Land, not far from the city.
Pressefotos
Source: schoenewolf.com