Ivan Fedele, Malin Bång, Marco Stroppa, Agata Zubel, Mirela Ivičević, Francesco Filidei, Hermann Meier: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2018

SA CD 1
Total playing time: 68:51

Ivan Fedele (* 1953)
Air on Air for amplified basset horn and orchestra (2018) 17:28

[01] I float on air… 04:04
[02] II Squalls on the water surface… 02:01
[03] III Calm... 02:25
[04] IV In the eye of the storm... 02:15
[05] V The pounding sound of the storm… 02:50
[06] VI Crumbled air… 03:51

World premiere Live recording
Commissioned by SWR and Fondazione Orchestra Regionale Toscana

Michele Marelli, basset horn
SWR Symphonieorchester
Pascal Rophe, conductor

Malin Bang (* 1974)
[07] Splinters of ebullient rebellion for orchestra (2018) 19:54

World premiere Live recording
Commissioned by SWR and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in cooperation with EMS

SWR Symphonieorchester
Pascal Rophe, conductor

Marco Stroppa (* 1959)
come play with me for solo electronics and orchestra (2016-2018) 31:28

[08] 1.Come 03:47
[09] 2.Play 02:57
[10] 3. With Me 03:08
[11] 4. RUN 06:11
[12] 5. GUN 03:29
[13] 6. STRIKE 01:15
[14] 7. SCRATCH 10:38

World premiere Live recording
Commissioned by SWR, Orchester de Paris, Françoise and Jean Philippe Billarant

IRCAM (Luca Bagnoli, sound engineer Carlo Laurenzi, computer music design)
SWR Symphonieorchester
Pascal Rophe, conductor

SA CD 2
Total playing time: 63:08

Agata Zubel (* 1978)
[01] Chamber Piano Concerto for piano(s) and ensemble (2018) 12:24

World premiere Live recording
Commissioned by SWR

Cicada ensemble
Christian Eggen, conductor

Mirela Ivicevic (* 1980)
[02] CASE WHITE for ensemble (2018) 10:01

World premiere Live recording
Commissioned by SWR

Sound Forum Vienna
Ilan Volkov conductor

Francesco Filidei (* 1973)
[03] BALLATA N. 7 for ensemble (2018) 15:34

World premiere Live recording
Commissioned by SWR

Sound Forum Vienna
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Herman Meier (1906-2002)
[04] Piece for large orchestra and piano four hands, HMV 62 (1965) 25:07

World premiere Live recording

SWR Symphonieorchester
Peter Rundel, conductor
Lars Jönsson and Klaus Steffes-Holländer piano

Wrote a detailed review Paco Yanez on 9.12.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX:

Como viene siendo norma de la casa en las ediciones de las Donaueschinger Musiktage publicadas por NEOS, las tomas de sonido son espectaculares, consciente como lo es la SWR (radio alemana encargada de las grabaciones) de lo histórico de cada edición de un oráculo alemán al que tantas partituras que han cambiado la historia de la música debemos. En esta ocasión, las aquí reunidas nos sitúan ante seis novedades (y una recuperación histórica) de muy diversa factura que responden fidedignamente a las variadísimas rutas estéticas que definen el presente. El generoso libreto, de 55 páginas, nos ayudará a comprender mejor estas rutas de la mano de los propios compositores, que firman los ensayos explicativos de cada una de sus partituras, excepto en el caso de Hermann Meier, cuyo ensayo fue escrito por Michelle Ziegler .

full article on mundoclassico.com

In the November 2019 issue, Dirk Wieschollek wrote:

(…) Compositions by Ivan Fedele, Malin Bång, Marco Stroppa, Agata Zubel, Mirela Ivicevic, Francesco Filidei and Hermann Meier were selected. All pieces that uphold Donaueschingen's tradition of innovative orchestral composition, but some remarkably differently formatted premieres (e.g. Enno Poppe's “Rundfunk”) are omitted. A highlight of Donaueschingen 2018 was “splinters of ebullient rebellion” by Malin Bång (…), which was honored with the orchestra prize.