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ID: KAI0012022 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble(text by Salvatore Sciarrino after Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi)
Attracted by the borderline experiences and solitary forms of a gradually darkening Renaissance, these compositions by Salvatore Sciarrino revolve around three figures from the 16th century, all of whom lost control in the field of tension between feverish living and spiritual demise, between brightness and damnation, inspired, driven and obsessed. The famous poet Torquato Tasso describes in three authentic letters (Lettere poetici) his tormenting visions of goblins and phantoms. This is all reflected in Sciarrino's intense, whispering, whirring music, in which silence is as significant as the birth of sound, "Almost naked, sober," remarks the composer, "and that is an important element when one is listening to music. Only in this way can it bore its way into the flesh." |
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ID: KAI0012132 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleBoth peculiar archaism and highest sensitivity characterize this quiet while extremely tense sound landscapes of the Sicilian composer Salvatore Sciarrino. (Hans-Peter Jahn)
Includes booklet with text by Hans-Peter Jahn |
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ID: KAI0012292 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Contemporary music Subcollection: Film MusicWith his disconcertingly hypnotic, excitingly oscillating music, the American Morton Feldman has become a cult figure in recent years. Now, recordings of hitherto unpublished compositions for film are available for the first time on a cd. When we imagine Feldman, we think of pure, crystalline music. But we do not think of wide, soft sounds, that do describe paintings through their power, like you would expect in Hollywood productions. We do not know him like that. On this cd we have two pieces that give notice of the narrow liason with painting, (Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock). Being in the present with the sound, this time music with stories and history: this is how we experience this extraorbitant dramatic art by the fascinating recording by ensemble recherche.
Includes booklet with text by Peter Niklas Wilson |
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ID: KAI0012322 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleBeat 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: KAI0012432 CDs: 2 Type: SACD |
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraWorld 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 |
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ID: KAI0012442 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleThe method of composition, which has recourse to existing musical material, reworking it into a new composition, figures as a central principle of occidental music history. This applies particularly to the mass and motet compositions of the Renaissance, when this method of adopting and reworking existing music represented one of the key features of musical production. An especially vivid example - which however remains singular in its appearance - for the continuous engagement with a certain musical “theme” is the English “In Nomine“ genre dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries.
This tradition started out with the six-voice mass Gloria tibi Trinitas by John Taverner (around 1495-1545), composed no later than around 1528. To the words “In nomine Domini” the section of the Benedictus (the lyrics are: “Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini” - “blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”) has a salient four-voice section, which, as cantus firmus in the alto part, contains the antiphon “Gloria tibi Trinitas” quoted in its entirety.
Includes booklet with text by Torsten Blaich |
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ID: KAI0012642 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleIsabel's music doesn't evade making the process of its genesis audible, if not the doubts and hesitations during composition, then the traces of ways of deciding, which in their complexity form the special identity of her world of sound. We are not dealing with constructed music, triumphant algorithms conjuring up at any cost the plummet of incontestable certainties. On the contrary this is about the constant invention of certitudes to which the music lends its ear in coming into being, which accepts that a brief-sounding space of time can convey a vaster space of time and its decisions, and bring forth just that unique music adapted to the context of history - our history.
(Brice Pauset)
Includes booklet with text by Isabel Mundry and Brice Pauset |
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ID: KAI0012692 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble1 - 3 Ensemble Modern - Hans Zender, conductor
4 - 6 Ensemble Recherche
7 - 9 Arditti String Quartet
Arditti String Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, violin
Ashot Sarkissjan, violin
Ralf Ehlers, viola
Lucas Fels, cello
Furioso. The ensemble is conceived as open, as in flux, the musicians and instrumental tones as coming and going. Ideally, if the procedure wouldn’t be too obtrusive and apt to distract from the music, the musicians, each at their own tempo could be drawn across the stage on podiums on wheels, so that they would appear with the first note and disappear with the last - apart from the violoncello, which must be silently present and apart from the piccolo, which can be heard in part IIa, but which should also be visible in IIb. (Mathias Spahlinger)
Includes booklet with texts by Frank Hilberg, Peter Niklas Wilson and Mathias Spahlinger |
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ID: KAI0012792 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
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 |
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ID: KAI0012812 CDs: 3 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Chamber EnsembleSalvatore Sciarrino, probably Italy's most important living composer, accepted a commission from the Italian state broadcaster RAI to compose the music for a 100-part TV series of the Divina Commedia. At the same time, he also created an orchestral version for the concert hall: Sui poemi concentrici for Soloists and Orchestra. The duration shrank to only a tenth of the original 15 hours, but the size of the forces remained the same, with the exception of the choir. |
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