HARDEN, WOLF

Wolf Harden, who was born in Hamburg in 1962, can be regarded as one of the most versatile pianists of his generation. The son of a piano teacher and a musicologist, he studied at the Detmold Music Academy and made his Berlin début to critical acclaim in 1982. His interest in chamber music led him, in 1980, to found, with two friends the Trio Fontenay, an ensemble that has won various awards and with which he has toured to all the world’s major music centres. Harden devotes himself not only to chamber music but also, with the same success, to the solo piano repertoire. His concert tours have taken him to South America and India as well as to countries throughout Europe, and his special affinity with unusual repertoire is attested by numerous recordings. For Naxos/Marco Polo he has recorded Pfitzner's Piano Concerto [Marco Polo 8.223162], the first to do so, and the piano music of Busoni [Naxos 8.555034 & Naxos 8.5555699]. He has also recorded piano music by Ernö Dohnányi, and a sonata by Franz Lehár. Wolf Harden has collaborated with singers, including Juliane Banse, Wolfgang Holzmair and Theo Adam, and with many instrumentalists, among them Kolja Blacher, Michael Goldstein, Kim Kashkashian and Giora Feidman.

See the artist's website at www.wolfharden.de/vita.html

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
ANDANTE - Classics for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556606
BACH, J.S.: Keyboard Partitas Nos. 3-5	7160
BACH, J.S.: Partitas Nos. 3-5, BWV 827-829	8.220407
BACH, J.S.: Partitas Nos. 3-5, BWV 827-829	8.550312
BALLADE - Classics Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556604
BERCEUSE - CLASSICS FOR RELAXING AND DREAMING	8.556610
BRIDE'S GUIDE TO WEDDING MUSIC (A)	8.503134
BUSONI, F.: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Harden) - An die Jugend / Fantasia Contrappuntistica	8.555034
BUSONI, F.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Harden) - Bach - Chaccone / Variations and Fugue on Chopin's Prelude in C minor	8.555699
BUSONI, F.: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (Harden) - 3 morceaux / Indianisches Tagebuch, Book 1	8.570249
BUSONI, F.: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (Harden) - Elegien / Fantasia nach J. S. Bach / Toccata	8.570543
DOHNANYI: Ruralia Hungarica / Four Rhapsodies	8.223128
MINUETTO - 1999 CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS	8.554662
MOZART: Violin Sonatas, K. 378, K. 376 and K. 296	8.550065
NAXOS 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (NTSC)	2.110227
NIGHT MUSIC 4	8.556818
NIGHT MUSIC, VOL. 4	8.551124
NIGHT MUSIC, VOL. 10	8.556824
NIGHT MUSIC, VOL. 6	8.556820
NIGHT MUSIC, VOL. 8	8.556822
NISHIZAKI, Takako: Fritz Kreisler Edition, Vol. 10	8.557876
NISHIZAKI, Takako: Fritz Kreisler Edition, Vol. 6	8.557872
NISHIZAKI, Takako: Fritz Kreisler Edition, Vol. 8	8.557874
NISHIZAKI, Takako: Fritz Kreisler Edition, Vol. 9	8.557875
PASTORALE - Classics for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556608
PERFECT SPRING WEDDING	8.557976
PFITZNER: Piano Concerto / Das Christelflein Overture	8.223162
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (THE BEST OF)	8.556674
ROMANTIC VIOLIN FAVOURITES	8.550125
ROMANTIC VIOLIN FAVOURITES	8.550125DX
SCHUMANN, R.: Humoreske, Op. 20 / REGER: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of J.S. Bach	8.550469
SCHUMANN, R.: Humoreske, Op. 20 / REGER: Variations and Fugue, Op. 81	8.220408
SOMMER	8.503045
SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME	8.550580DX
VIOLIN FANTASIES	8.571091