ACT Michael Wollny: Mondenkind

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin left the Columbia command module, and just under three hours later became the first people to land on the moon. Michael Collins stayed on board Columbia and spent the next day alone orbiting the moon, waiting for his colleagues to return, losing visual and radio contact with the earth for 46:38 minutes of each orbit. One report of the time claimed that “not since Adam has any human known such solitude”, but when Collins was asked about that, he explained that his solo orbit of the moon, despite the fact of being alone, was characterized by the following states of mind: “awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation.”Michael Wollny When chance takes a hand, it can write the most unlikely stories. Michael Wollny has made more than a dozen albums as leader...

Michael Wollny / piano

lunar landscape ( Michael Wollny)00:49
father lucifer ( Tori Amos)04:26
things behind walls ( Michael Wollny)01:07
sonatine nr. 7 / 2. satz ( Rudolf Hindemith)04:23
velvet gloves & spit ( Timber Timbre)02:43
tale ( Michael Wollny)03:31
mondenkind ( Michael Wollny)04:40
enter three witches ( Michael Wollny)05:52
schliesse mir die augen beide ( Alban Berg)03:08
the rain never stops on venus ( Michael Wollny)01:46
un animal imaginé par méliès ( Michael Wollny)03:32
cyrano ( Michael Wollny)01:51
sagée ( Michael Wollny)05:32
spacecake ( Michael Wollny)04:04
mercury ( Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner & Nico Muhly)04:04