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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: KAI0013162 (EAN: 9120010281730) | 1 CD | DDD Vydano: 2011
- LABEL:
- KAIROS
- Kolekce:
- Contemporary music
- Podkolekce:
- Voices and Chamber Ensemble
- Skladatel:
- PINTSCHER, Matthias
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Interpreti:
- BYRD-MARROW, David (horn) | FLOWERS, Garethn (trumpet) | MONTALVO, Marisol (soprano)
- Soubory:
- International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) | SWR-Vokalensemble Stuttgart
- Dirigenti:
- CREED, Marcus | PINTSCHER, Matthias
- Dal informace:
In the three-part ensemble cycle sonic eclipse (2009-10), another theme of the compositional process is auditory masking as a step-by-step process of concealment. The solo instrument featured in the work’s first part, is the trumpet, with the horn taking up this role in the secont Part. Part three interlinks the two solo instruments, which in turn proceed to integrate themselves fully with the rest of the ensemble. In search of a metaphor for this process, Pintscher hit upon the phenomenon of the eclipse-in which celestial bodies overlap and cast their shadows upon one another at the moment of complete coverage.
From twilight to twilight and from morning to evening is the range spanned by a twilight’s song and the E.E.Cummings poem upon which it is based. Pintscher composes the “in-between”, a
penetration of the poem’s inflection and structure; the pictorial language is re-sketched via the creation of an “integral of the simulated spatiality”. An instrumental ensemble placed at a considerable distance to one another begins with nearly inaudible whispering and proceeds to conjure up an incipient sonic space consisting of heterogeneous events: rasping, floating; pulsations, plosives, breathing. At its centre, the bass flute’s melodious opening gesture of a prepares the register of the soprano.
For Matthias Pintscher, the shir ha shirim (song of songs) is “a supremely condensed compendium of nearly boundless emotional states. All its sections give the impression of having neither beginning, nor end, nor middle, simply being modes of expression that circle one another.” It is from the fifth song that the Pintscher took the text for his a cappella piece. The words “she-cholat ahavah ani” translate as “how lovesick am I”, and for the composer this is a core sentence which sums up the topic of the love song. Not only in terms of content, but also structurally, the famous Hebrew text opens up very special perspectives. “In Hebrew, words are like islands or sources of energy, since everything in the language is derived from short root words. For a musician or a composer, this represents the opportunity to delve deep into the words’ connotations, since one can oneself shape the flow, the route between the individual words, each one of which is like an object.”
(Marie Luise Maintz)
Includes booklet with text by Marie Luise Maintz
| PINTSCHER, Matthias (b. 1971) | | | sonic eclipse (2009-2010), for solo trumpet, solo horn and ensemble | | | 1. | celestial object I. for solo trumpet and ensemble (2009) | 12:53 | | | 2. | celestial object II. for solo horn and ensemble (2009) | 11:39 | | | 3. | occultation for solo trumpet, solo horn and ensemble (2010) | 9:52 | | | 4. | a twilight's song (1997), for soprano and seven instruments | 9:14 | | | 5. | seh-cholat ahavah ani (shir ha-shirim V) (2008), for mixed chorus a cappella | 17:25 | |
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