Christian FP Kram (1968-)
"Grenzschatten", pour baryton et piano
"Sargon", pour mezzo-soprano et piano
"Nietzsche-Sentenzen", pour baryton et piano
"Stille Reflexionen", pour voix et piano
"Eigenschneit", pour baryton et piano

Mareike Schellenberger, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Jung, baryton
Jan Roelof Wolthuis, piano
Olivier Lechardeur, piano

Composer Christian FP Kram devotes himself to an almost forgotten genre: he writes piano lieder - intimate, lyrical, pointed miniatures of text and music. Mareike Schellenberger (mezzosoprano) and Christopher Jung (baritone), as well as the pianists Jan Roelof Wolthuis and Olivier Lechardeur, present five of his song cycles, almost all of which are world premiere recordings on a new Genuin CD. Among them are songs based on texts by Hermann Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sargon Boulus, Katerina Rudcenková and Kevin Perryman. Kram's songs are fascinating soundscapes: compositionally differentiated, but always in their creator's original and concise musical language.