Jul 14, 2015 | Sabine Wiedemann News Video Video Franziska Pietsch / Detlev Eisinger

​The video gives impressions of the recording session with Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger as they make their audite debut with chamber works by Edvard Grieg. The three Violin Sonatas represent half his œuvre in this field, epitomising central stages in his artistic development. Grieg rated these three sonatas amongst his best works. The new production will be released on July 24th (Germany).

As an emerging talent in the GDR, Franziska Pietsch enjoyed special state support. After her father's escape to the West in 1984, two years of reprisals by the regime followed, intensively shaping Franziska Pietsch's understanding of music: deprived of any possibility of playing concerts or taking lessons, her chosen path towards hope - against desperation, refusal, fear and despotism - led inwards. Music became the only language in which she was able to express herself freely and which gave her the necessary strength to withstand external circumstances, continuing to hope for freedom. These were the origins of the intensity and artistic depth which characterise Franziska Pietsch's playing to the present day.

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