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Otto Siegl, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith, Günther Raphael, Witold Lutoslawski, Darius Milhaud, Siegmund Schul: Keepsake of Modern Age - Forgotten
Info text: NEOCLASSICAL MODERN AND EXPRESSIVE CLASSICITY Works by Otto Siegl, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith, Günter Raphael, Witold Lutoslawski, Darius Milhaud and Siegmund Schul The name OTTO SIEGL (1896–1978) is only marginally familiar today to passionate rarity hunters. The native of Graz wrote in 1946 that he played “a lot of chamber music, like most conductors and composers, mainly viola. […] In the […]
Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre
Info text: ... A BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMARE ... Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy, although contemporaries, pursued very different musical approaches. While Stravinsky shocked the world with new rhythmic-metric sound attacks, Debussy revolutionized music with much more subtle elements: with a harmony that no longer had a tonal basis and a musical language that gave freedom to Stravinsky's ruthless logic.
Isang Yun, Ludwig van Beethoven: Pathétique
Info text: VIRTUOSITY AND PATHOS, BEAUTY AND TRUTH Kaya Han with the piano work of Isang Yun and Beethoven's ›Pathétique‹ In Johann Georg Sulzer's General Theory of Fine Arts (Leipzig 1793) ›Pathos; Pathetic” especially to those passions “which fill the mind with fear, terror [sic!] and dark sadness”, i.e. to those feelings that arise as a result of […]
Hans Zender, Klaus Huber, Hans Thomalla, James Saunders, Arnulf Herrmann, François Sarhan, Mark Andre, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, Elliott Sharp,
Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]
Mark Andre, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007 Vol. 3
Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]
Hans Thomalla, James Saunders, Arnulf Herrmann, François Sarhan: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007 Vol. 2
Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]
Hans Zender, Klaus Huber: Donaueschingen Music Days 2007 Vol. 1
Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]
José Manuel Lopez Lopez: Works for soloists and ensemble
Info text: MUSIC AS THE ART OF LIGHTNESS There is 'heavy', earthy music that blows at us from below, paralyzing us in a beneficial way by moving us: Think of the virile power of rock music, of the chthonic masses of Xenakis or of the drums from Burundi… And then there is “light” music that […]
Anders Eliasson: Desert Point ∙ Ostácoli ∙ Sinfonia per archi
Info text: "SHE TAKES NO PRISONERS" Anders Eliasson and the art of infinite presence "Music was my only way to survive in this world." As a small boy, Anders Eliasson formed his toy soldiers into an orchestra, sat down in front of them and sang, imitated the voices of the instruments. The first music he can remember […]
Thomas Hummel: From Trachila
Info text: MUSIC AND TEXT IN AN UNUSUAL LIAISON “From Trachila” by Thomas Hummel The problem of understanding has become the subject of various discourses in recent art studies, which extend to theories of incomprehension or illegibility. Music, as the most abstract of all arts, has always carried a considerable degree of indeterminacy. Today, not least […]
Ernst Helmuth Flammer: Orchestral Works Vol
Info text: Orchestral works by Ernst Helmuth Flammer The shape of time, thinking about time as a phenomenological category, i.e. the content that is articulated through the shape of time in music, has always been important to me as a composer. Time thinking is to be understood both structurally and in categories of history and present, tradition and aesthetic […]
Gerald Eckert: Chamber Music
Info text: SPACIOUS AND WEIGHTLESS As filigree and aesthetically balanced as Eckert's scores appeal to the viewer, they demand from the interpreters an extremely differentiated sound spectrum and dynamic gradations that go to the limits of what is possible, the edges of perception and technology Mark assets, but are binding, extremely binding in fact. Gestures and […]