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Composer: FURRER, Beat ((b. 1954)) |
| His/her music:
A selection:
1984 "Poemas"
1987/88 "Ultimi Cori"
1988 "Gaspra"
1988 "Risonanze" für Orchester
1989 "Die Blinden", Opera
1990 "A un moment de terre perdu"
1991 "Face de la chaleur"
1994 "Narcissus", Opera
1988 2. String quartet
2003 "Invocations"
His/her life:
In 1975 he went to Vienna, where he studied composition and conducting. From 1982 he composed chamber music. In 1989 he performed the opera "Die Blinden" (The Blinds) in public. As in his later works "Narcissus" (1994) and "Begehren" (Desires, 2003) the librettos repose on different sources: Ovid, Plato, Hölderlin, Rimbaud or Pavese. Since 1991 he is professor for composition at the Musikhochschule in Graz, Austria.
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ID: KAI0012062
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The Austrian composer of Swiss origin considers his art to be a "view over the moving matter 'sound'": Beat Furrer does not develop sounds, he observes them, his music does not unfold dynamically with time, but attempts to rescind it: "No beginning", writes Furrer, "everything is present from the start". "nuun" thus filters out the individual layers of an initially almost impenetrable sound, as when you suddenly discover structures in a monochrome painting upon taking a closer look. Furrer then compares the sound dramaturgy of "still" with an electrical circular saw which when set into operation almost inaudibly unfolds greatest power and energy - until it encounters resistance.
Includes booklet with text by Klaus Haendl |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012272
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
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ID: KAI0012322
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Beat Furrer’s works leave no doubt that someone is at work here (on himself), whose appreciation of sound and radical rejection of all-too-plausible contextual aesthetics brought forth an altogether distinct language, moving, boldly layered sounds. ensemble recherche provides listeners this exemplary experience.
Includes booklet with text by Björn Gottstein |
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ID: KAI0012382
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
As though he were an architect in sound - the architect of an ongoing Revolution of the Viaduct (Paul Klee) - this composer discovers in his piano pieces something which, for a master mason, might represent discarded corner-stones: the heart of the secret. It becomes apparent that in the pieces for solo piano - themselves like a collection of cornerstones in his output - a small collection of musical gems has come into being: crystalline, glittering, and utterly lucid both in form and appearance. The guiding and enlightening code for them might read: distillation by diminution. (Wolfgang Hofer)
Includes booklet with text by Wolfgang Hofer |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012432
CDs: 2
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
World premiere recording
Begehren is a “dramaturgical” and compositional spur for music theatre in the 21st century: a parable on the dialectic of isolation, a man and a woman in a no man’s land of placeless-ness and a play on the potential possibilities behind reality. With a libretto after texts by Ovid, Virgil, Hermann Broch, Cesare Pavese and Günter Eich, this production was selected by a panel of 55 critics as the best worldwide premiere of the 2002/03 season |
| 29.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012562
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
World premiere recording
“... and every voice reaches listening ears”: When one blocks out the context of this formulation in Ovid’s brilliant description of the house of Fama, at the beginning of Book XII of his Metamorphoses, one can imagine without difficulty a person, who would find this so obvious an experience, that at first it hardly seems worth mentioning. But everyone, who understands the world by hearing the voices that reach their ‘listening ears’ gains thereby a similar experience, which for the most part we tend to block out, whether in the noisy urban environment or mainly in ostensibly quieter rural surroundings. With every perception, we select, order, classify or, during a visit to a classical concert, aurally ‘correct’ mistunings and overhear those fine overtones, out of which a fascinating cosmos of new sounds has developed in the past decade. Yet if one reads the Ovid rather more carefully, a strange and unique feature of the place described comes into view: it does not distinguish where a sound comes from, does not ask what it is, accepts everything that comes to it, and allows it to reverberate within, transformed into a gentle resonance. What Fama, the goddess of Rumour, then does with this wealth of information lies on a different page of course, and we will yet have to return to it. The open ear registers what comes to it without prejudice, and each listener should not just consciously activate it now and then with music. And Ovid’s image contains something else: the description of Fama’s house as a space filled with sound acts as an express reminder that, for one thing, without a space, sound would be unthinkable. For another, it records both the distance between what is making the sound and the place of its perception as well as the bridging of this distance through the expanse of space. In addition, that account evokes something which fundamentally distinguishes the auditory from other senses of perception: in opposition to the visible, sounds moving in space can freely develop, overcome obstacles without effort and intermingle with one another, without losing their own unique characteristics. In was Ovid’s incredible conception of a place to which all the events and sounds of the world come and find resonance that always fascinated Beat Furrer. (Daniel Ender)
Includes booklet with text by Daniel Ender |
| 21.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
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ID: KAI0012792
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Movies
Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English, German
Color mode: Colour
Screen Format: 4:3, 16:9
DVD Format: DVD 5
Duration: 94 mins + Interview 15mim 36 sec
Subtitles: none
Sound Format: Dolby 5.1
Beat Furrer’s opera Begehren was the opening stage production for Graz 2003, with stage design by famous London-based architect Zaha Hadid, and was very well received by national and international press. The opera takes the well-known Orpheus & Euridike theme and transfers it into a contemporary setting.
Libretto according to texts of Ovid, Vergil, Hermann Broch,
Cesare Pavese and Günter Eich.
With the co-operation of Christine Huber and Wolfgang Hofer.
Beat Furrer music director
Reinhild Hoffmann stage direction and choreography
Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher stage design
Anna Eiermann costumes
Reinhard Traub lighting
Thomas Fiedler dramaturgy
Dancers
Fabien Chas, Annabel Cuny
Corinna D’Angelo, Michaela Isabel Fünfhausen
Ziv Frenkel, Johanna Hegenscheidt Bibiana
Jimenez Przemyslaw Kubicki, Oliver Meyer, Ronaldo Navarro
Lorenz Orth, Marco A. Queiroz, Remo Rostagno
Yoshiko Waki, Elisa Zucchetti |
| 20.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0013132
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
Furrer bases his Third String Quartet on three characteristic, contrasting structures. Each of the three structures, all different, is generally designed to have a continuation. These continual variations are consummated in a development section, and the developments overlap over the course of the quartet. |
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ID: KAI0013312
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Tora Augestad, Sebastien Brohier, Eva Furrer, Trio Catch, Klangforum Wien, Beat Furrer |
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