Info text: CONNECTIONS - SYNÁPSIES "Whole and non-whole, united and separated, unanimous and discordant - and from all one and from one everything." This epigram by Heraclitus has accompanied and inspired me for many years. For me, in its incomparable succinctness and concentration, it is also a wonderful expression of my inner goal to […]

Info text: Georg Katzer · String quartets The string quartets are certainly not the focus of Georg Katzer's extensive work, and yet they accompany his entire development as a composer: almost as if he had his own position at intervals of around 20 years based on the traditional format want to redefine each time. They are not a sum of his […]

Info text: BARTÓK – RIHM Bartók had already demonstratively made his preference for the combination of piano and drums public a decade before the quartet sonata: in his first piano concerto, in which the new prominence of the drums is also visually demonstrated by the fact that the players “immediately “be placed behind the piano”. For Bartók, piano and percussion belong to one family, after all, when […]

Info text: PRAISE OF PERSPECTIVE It is certainly no coincidence that Martino Traversa almost exclusively associates his compositions with sensory impressions. In Manhattan Bridge 4:30 am there are visual-spatial impressions, visual-acoustic ones in Bianco, ma non troppo, exclusively visual ones (with allusions to painting) in Quadrato bianco, su sfondo bianco, and finally purely sound ones in Dopo il respiro and Rimane , l'eco. In these cases […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time 70:55 Beat Furrer (*1954) [01] Spur for piano and string quartet (1998) 12:40 Hsin-Huei Huang, piano · stadler quartet Mauricio Sotelo (*1961) [02] Audéeis for voice and string quartet (2004) 23:03 Arcángel, flamenco voice · stadler quartet Beat Furrer [03] op. 2008/09 for piano and instrument […]

Info text: Elliott Carter – Cello Concerto Contrasting encounter between instrumental protagonists The English conductor Oliver Knussen sees Elliott Carter as the “most important contemporary musical dramatist in the field of instrumental composition”. For his scores, Elliott Carter creates real scenarios in which the instrumentalists act as individual characters. In his cello concerto from 2001 he also deals with [...]

Info text: musica viva Munich Forum for Contemporary Music Since its founding by the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1945, the Bayerischer Rundfunk's 'musica viva' concert series has been one of the world's most important forums for contemporary music. Premieres and historical milestones of modernity are the concept of these monthly concerts. In January and February 2008 […]

Info text: “Whispering Eurasia,” the first recording of this established ensemble, draws on the aesthetics of Chinese classical music, Japanese improvisation, American-style jazz, and European free improvisation. What the four members of this multi-cultural, multi-national, multi-tradition group have in common is a sensitivity to live, dynamic interactions. Whether working though composed material, conceptual constructions, or complete […]

Info text: CONCENTRATES, GERMS Dieter Schnebel has written three compositions for string quartet: works of the genre in which the expression of enlightened culture has been most concentrated; in which living spaces were cultivated for sublime inwardness and the exchange of freedom-filled thoughts; in which compositional arts unfold their most beautiful blossoms. Schnebel's examination of the implications of this historic […]

Info text: David Philip Hefti: Rotas · Wunderhorn Music ROTAS – Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra ROTAS, concerto for oboe and orchestra, was created in 2009 on behalf of the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and is dedicated to the soloist Thomas Indermühle, the conductor Rudolf Piehlmayer and the Augsburg Philharmonic . ROTAS is the last composition of my 5-part SATOR cycle. The five compositions are represented by […]

Info text: Musical richness of relationships With his orchestral cycle Spheres, the composer York Höller has created a large-format work that brings together the literary, artistic and personal experiences of the past decades as if in a focal point. Spheres consists of six “sound images” of different character, the first five of which were created between 2001 and 2005; after the death of his [...]

Info text: Music as sound speech A portrait of the poet in sounds: York Höller The premiere of Topic by the orchestra of the Cologne University of Music in the large broadcasting hall of WDR Cologne brought York Höller his breakthrough in 1967. A representative of the Schott publishing house then signed the young composer, and at the instigation of the music editor Otto Tomek, the WDR played […]