year of composition: 2023

Volker Blumenthaler: ricordanza
Aldo Brizzi: Horst 80
Dora Cojocaru: Happy Birthday
Dan Dediu: Arabeske für Horst
Michael Denhoff: Achtzig Klänge für Horst Lohse
Violeta Dinescu: Konvergenz
Gert Drost: H_ _ _ _ _ _ _SE
Dorothee Eberhardt: Springkraut
Ernst Helmuth Flammer: Diskontinuierlich im Kontinuum H.L.
Wolfram Graf: Magischer Moment
Peter Michael Hamel: Continuous Creation
Werner Heider: One-Minute-Rock
Lutz-Werner Hesse: Albumblatt
Stefan Hippe: 10 Buchstaben
C. René Hirschfeld: Petit Souvenir
Dorothea Hofmann: Festliches Geläute
Hans Kraus-Hübner: Wem die Zeit aufspielt, der kann tanzen
Claus Kühnl: Frühling I
Jochen Neurath: Horst Lohse zum 80.
Birger Petersen: H-R(e)-(e)S
Alexander Radvilovich: Pereswon. Festliche Glocken
Martin Christoph Redel: Lo(h)ses Albumblatt
Rainer Rubbert: Récif
Klaus Hinrich Stahmer: Lichteinfall I
Lorenz Trottmann: Fanfare

"The collection comprises 25 piano aphorisms, extremely disparate in musical terms, which were presented to the composer Horst Lohse (*1943) as a birthday gift by friends and companions from different countries and generations.

Based on a wide variety of aesthetic approaches, each of the one-movement pieces revolves around specific tone letters, tonal ideas or musical characters associated with the composer.

The spectrum ranges from the simplest musical notation to complex, rhythmically interlaced modes of presentation on three to five staves and partially graphic notation. ...

The collection provides insights into different contemporary styles and pianistic levels of difficulty, the pieces are suitable for enriching concert programs as well as for didactic use in music schools and universities."

(Stefan Drees, in: nmz 10/24, page 10. Reprinted with kind permission.)