I am very proud of this CD, which brings together all my important works for piano and recorder: Imibala yenjabulo, Tell them I've had a wonderful life, Cádiz, and the Three Sad Songs! 

Cádiz is located in Andalusia, on the southern Spanish Atlantic coast. It was founded by Phoenician seafarers around 1100 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in Western Europe. Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, and Spaniards ruled the city and ran trade from there. The old town overlooking the sea with its centuries-old ensemble of the fortress, the town hall, the watchtowers, theaters, churches, and cathedrals reminds us of a fairytale. Manuela de Falla and Paco de Lucía were born here. This fascinating place inspired me to write the Suite CADIZ, of which you here can listen to the third movement. ALONE ON THE SHORE  is a lamenting song, the melody complains about a painful loss - the piano accompanies thoughtfully, asks questions, hears the recorder answer, listens thoughtfully, and insists on always the same rhythm.

My biggest thanks to Chris Orton who recorded this album with me in June 2022 in Warsaw. We released it on December 1. You can listen to this track for free this weekend! You can order the CD on my website:
https://www.soerensieg.de/en/content/cadiz-5

Alone On The Shore

Anlässlich der Vernichtung von 580.000 Impfdosen im Wert von 130 Millionen € (!) hier nochmal unser beliebter Schweinegrippen-Song!

LaLeLu - Schweinegrippe

I wrote the Circle for the Ensemble Tastissimo in Oldenburg. It is a piece for eight hands at two pianos - and because many of my friends think it's my best piece, I am starting my Sound Cloud collection with it!

The Circle

Im Oktober 2012 reiste ich mit meinen Kindern zweieinhalb Wochen durch Jordanien. Höhepunkt der Reise war unser Besuch in der Wüste Wadi Rum, die bekannt wurde durch Lawrence von Arabien und den Film über ihn. Der Wadi Rum ist ein magischer Ort: Keine Menschen, Straßen oder Gebäude, (nahezu) keine Tiere und Pflanzen, nur Sonne, Wüste und darin jede Menge bizarrer Felsformationen - wie in einem Gemälde von Saldador Dalí, eine völlig neue Erfahrung von Zeit, Raum und Stille. Jabal Ram ist der höchste Berg im Wadi Rum. Das Stück beginnt mit einem Flötenspieler, der allein auf der Bergspitze seinen melancholischen Gedanken nachhängt, während die Sonne untergeht. Als des dunkel ist, erscheinen die Dschinn, die legendären arabischen Geistwesen: Sie fliegen auf den Berg zu, umkreisen ihn, jagen sich, schwirren durch die Luft und feiern eine wilde, arabische Walpurgisnacht. Ich bedanke mich bei Simon Borutzki für den Kompositionsauftrag, die vielen Verbesserungsvorschläge und sein brillantes Dirigat, und beim Berliner Blockflötenorchester für die grandiosen Aufführungen und diese Aufnahme.

http://www.berliner-blockfloeten-orchester.de
www.simonborutzki.com
https://www.facebook.com/BBOrchester/

Alla Turca

Jabal Ram

BLUE EARTH is the third movement of Mathongo Amnandi, my African Suite No. 24. Mathongo Amnandi in Xhosa means Sweet Dreams. Blue Earth is about the dream of being an astronaut, flying through space and watching our earth, the blue planet. It’s also a kind of prayer and meditation. Musically it consists of twelve variations on the first four bars, only interrupted by one three-bar bridge.  
I wish to thank Seldom Sene, the fantastic recorder quintet from Amsterdam, who commissioned the piece and recorded it on December 16 last year in Amsterdam for their CD Not a Single Road, which was published in September 2019. I also wish to thank the brilliant sound engineer Andrea Friggi. It was such a pleasure working for and with you all!

Not a single road

Blue Earth

"Mavumo ya uana" means Childhood memories. This piece was my first recorder quartet and my African Suite No. 3 (in the meantime I wrote six recorder quartets and 29 African Suites!). I wrote it in 2003 for the famous Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, who played it all around the world from Holland to Hawaii, published it in their Moeck edition, but unfortunately never recorded it on one of their CDs. And while I was so busy with my a cappella group and my three small children at that time, I never had the chance to attend a concert where they performed it. But in 2020 I met Robert Small from Fine Music Radio Sydney on my first trip to Australia, and he gave me this recording from the Musiekgebouw Amsterdam from March 28 in 2006.  He had played it on his radio show many times. What you hear is the second movement "kuagana" (Farewell) and the third movement "simo nzuri" (the good news). 
I wish to thank Daniël Brüggen, Karel van Steenhoven, Daniel Koschitzki and Andrea Ritter for this breathtaking performance and their personal permission to publish these two movements here on my Soundcloud account. Many thanks also to Robert Small who gave me access to the recording. And finally, I wish to thank my grandma Aenne Paff to whom I dedicated this piece and who died far too early in 1984. She gave me great childhood memories!

Mavumo ya uana

Sören Sieg (*1966) learned to play the recorder, violin, and piano as a child, and later also the saxophone, trumpet, guitar, and drums. He studied at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg from 1991 to 1996. He was commissioned to write compositions for the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, the Flanders Recorder Quartet, Seldom Sene, the Hanke Brothers, iFlautisti, the Boreas Quartet, Tastissimo, the Ensemble Pipelife, Music Festival neuköllner originaltöne, the Ensemble Flutes en bloc and many more. He celebrated Premieres in Hamburg, Berlin, Basel, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, Mumbai, Taipeh and Tokyo. He lives as a composer in Hamburg.

Alone On The Shore

Sören Sieg

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