Maak & Albertz's new Album with all world premiere recordings of piano works by Sef Albertz & Krzysztof Penderecki.

Anna-Maria Maak | Piano | www.annamariamaak.de
Sef Albertz | Composition & Arrangements | www.sefalbertz.com

Worldwide release (digital & physical): September 17th, 2021
Under the label Florentyn Music (www.florentynmusic.com)

© 2021 by Florentyn Music | All Rights Reserved for All Countries

Fables and Solitudes - Epilogue FX (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

In The Secret of the World (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Space Of Dreams (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

My Long Awaiting (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Aria, Ciaccona & Vivace (Penderecki) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Like Flames in a Shadow Riddle (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Extract from a great review of Maak & Albertz's newest album 'In the Secret of the World' on Feuilletöne, a German Podcast. Here, some extracts in English:

"Such a super exciting recording. So much sounded so familiar. A beautiful mixture of different influences. In a way, a very modern but still very familiar sounding album full of musical discoveries, one must say.

And the music of Sef Albertz, it has something light, lively, so I liked it very much. And if rhythmic, then Sef Albertz is always very light and never heavy. Always swinging. This is your album, listen to it! It's really embracing, it's good to you.

Let yourself be impressed by Anna-Maria Maak, let yourself be impressed by a pianist who doesn't play herself into the centre, but who puts the music into the centre. That's already a lot of fun. She does that in a really great way. She is a fantastic pianist, a pianist who puts her playing at the service of the compositions. That's just fantastic, that's really great".

In the Secret of the World | Album review on Feuilletöne, 2021 (German Audio)

Great review of 𝐒𝐞𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐳's newest album «𝐁𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬» on Feuilletöne, a German Podcast. Here, some extracts in English:
"𝐼'𝑚 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ «𝐵𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠» 𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑒𝑓 𝐴𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑧...𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟.
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛...𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑦, 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 «𝐵𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠»...!"

Sef Albertz's «Bunch Of Strings» | Album review on Feuilletöne, 2024 (German Audio)

Australian Premiere of Sef Albertz's reimagined version for Guitar & Strings of Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte (selection).
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Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra
Karin Schaupp (Soloist)
May 22nd - QPAC, Brisbane's South Bank
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Sef Albertz's scores are available at:
www.universaledition.com/albertz

Mendelssohn reimagined by Albertz - Lieder Ohne Worte (Australian Premiere - ABC)

Ein Radiobeitrag von MDR Kultur über das neue Projekt «𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲𝐬» der Pianistin 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚-𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐤 (www.annamariamaak.de) und des Komponisten 𝐒𝐞𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐳 (www.sefalbertz.com): Eine abendfüllende, interkulturelle Komposition in einem interdisziplinären Klavierabend.

Das SEA-Projekt von Maak & Albertz | Ein Beitrag von MDR Kultur (12.09.24)

Anna-Maria Maak (Recitation & Piano - www.annamariamaak.de) and Sef Albertz (Guitar - www.sefalbertz.com) play extracts from Platero und Ich (German version).
Album release on October 29th 2015, in Steinway Leipzig.

PLATERO UND ICH | Maak & Albertz - 12

CD RESPLENDENCES (Extracts)
German Pianist Anna-Maria Maak (www.annamariamaak.de) plays the world premiere recording of the piano work (original & versions) of German-Venezuelan composer Sef Albertz (www.sefalbertz.com).
After the acclaimed premiere of their new program in a sold-out concert at the “MDR Festival of Lights” in Leipzig, Maak & Albertz now present “Resplendences around Bach”, an album that shows the essence of their years of joint artistic work: “a dramaturgical and skillful connection to a fascinating musical world, an exquisite combination of progressive and traditional, jazz and funk, Mediterranean temperament and profundity” (MDR Press). “A great composer...a fantastic performer...a powerful work!” (Kristjan Järvi, conductor)

© 2018 by Florentyn Music | www.florentynmusic.com

RESPLENDENCES... (The Piano Wo

Joropo (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Escena (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Ciaccona (Albertz after Bach) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Danza (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

The Place of the Resplendences (Albertz) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

'Ich ruf' zu Dir...' (Albertz after Bach) | Anna-Maria Maak (Piano)

Musikerehepaar im Lockdown: die Pianistin Anna-Maria Maak (www.annamariamaak.de) und der Komponist Sef Albertz (www.sefalbertz.com).

Ein Musiker-Porträt von Maja Anter (MDR Kultur).

MDR Kultur Beitrag über Maak & Albertz | 24.11.2020

MAAK & ALBERTZ | A Place brimming with ideas...!
Anna-Maria Maak - Piano & Recitation (www.annamariamaak.de)
Sef Albertz - Composition & Guitar (www.sefalbertz.com)

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