Martin Schmeding - Die Blaue Blume (2021) Hi-Res

Music has always been used to convey certain states and emotions. In 19th century music in particular, it was important for composers to express inner states - landscapes of the soul - in their music.
You are looking for nature as a counterpart to the human soul and in the expression of music this nature serves as a background to express various emotions.

When you think of images, landscapes, impressions of nature that are closely connected to the world of 19th century Romanticism, a literary image immediately springs to mind: the Blue Flower, which Novalis wrote in his novel "Heinrich von Ofterdingen" conjured up as an ideal fantasy image, so to speak as a utopian ideal state. And that is, after all, the goal: to find an unattainable goal out of the various twists and turns of the soul landscapes. Hence the umbrella term The Blue Flower.
For his first album on the Aeolus label, Martin Schmeding has selected transcriptions of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and the famous sonata by Julius Reubke. He plays on the new organ (2017) of the Friedenskirche, Cologne-Mülheim, a fascinating instrument that was built by Woehl Orgel Projekte in the style of German Romanticism.