GERHARD FROMMEL (1906-1984)

PIANO SONATAS NOS. 4-7

TATJANA BLOME

“The recorded edition of Gerhard Frommel’s seven piano sonatas is now complete with the release of this second volume.

The spirit of Frommel’s Sonatas runs like a recurrent theme in his complete oeuvre. I have found a cosmic entirety via interpretation and presentation of each individual piece of this wonderful music. Like looking through a kaleidoscope of mosaics united as symmetrical figures, one can find a whole world of its own in each of those figures. In this regard, the development and unfolding of the musical language of Gerhard Frommel can be identified in his complete set of works as well as in the development of each individual sonata.” – Tatjana Blome

About this Recording

Gerhard Frommel regarded his piano sonatas as a miniature compendium of his entire output, reflecting a fundamentally Romantic approach melded with Stravinskian vitality. The Sixth Sonata’s poised profundity, inventiveness and structural perfection gives it a place as one of the best in its genre, its serene transparency lying between the powerfully heroic Fifth Sonata and the crystalline quality of the Seventh; a summation of expression in a work that Frommel was conscious would be his last.

TATJANA BLOME

As a twelve-year-old Tatjana Blome won first prize in the Steinway Competition and a year later gave her first evening recital. In 1995 she made her debut in the Berlin Philharmonie with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. She studied with Josef-Matthias Blome, Renate Kretschmar-Fischer, Heidrun Holtmann, Aribert Reimann and Gerhard Oppitz. Her career has brought performances throughout Europe, with recitals in Austria, France, Slovenia, Portugal and Russia and appearances as a soloist with various orchestras. Tatjana Blome has recorded over fifty works for labels including Deutsche Grammophon, EDA and Grand Piano.