Michael Rische & Berliner Barock Solisten
Biography Michael Rische & Berliner Barock Solisten
Michael Rische
belongs to a small group of musicians, even internationally, who consistently enrich musical life with significant discoveries. This doesn't have to contradict the standard repertoire. With his recordings of the piano concertos by Beethoven (No. 3 in C minor) and Mozart (No. 20 in D minor), the pianist has once again taken an unusual path:
These are the only recordings that offer the listener a choice between cadenzas from different eras.
His commitment to the music of the 1920s, however, is clearly one of his discoveries:
The premieres and first performances of the piano concertos by George Antheil and Erwin Schulhoff, as well as the recording of further works in this "jazz-influenced" style by Copland, Honegger, Gershwin, and Ravel, have made him internationally renowned. These seven piano concertos were recently re-released as a double CD by Hänssler CLASSIC.
After Michael Rische released a recording of compositions on the notes "b-ac-h" from Johann Sebastian Bach to the present day in the Bach anniversary year of 2000, he has been working with increasing success
to re-establish the almost forgotten piano concertos of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in musical life. His recordings to date have garnered extensive international acclaim from the very beginning. In CPE Bach's anniversary year of 2014, a Europe-wide live broadcast from MDR Leipzig two of his piano concertos.
Michael Rische, born in Leverkusen, studied in Düsseldorf with Max Martin Stein (piano) and Milko Kelemen (composition). He also received decisive inspiration from Rudolf
Serkin, Pierre Boulez, and Nicolaus Harnoncourt.
His collaborations with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Yuri Simonow, Christoph Poppen, Grant Llewellyn, Michael Boder, Wayne Marshall, and Rumon Gamba, and orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra London have opened concert halls in Europe, Israel, the USA, and China to him. Michael Rische was artist-in-residence at the International Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau.
Twenty CDs as a soloist with EMI, Universal, Sony, and Hänssler CLASSIC provide insight into his repertoire. Alexander Kluge also made a television documentary about his Bach discoveries. Michael Rische teaches a piano class as a professor at the Cologne University of Music.
