With NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE An extraordinary album is released that combines key works of contemporary music with fascinating sonic references to the past and future.
Peter Tilling's two-part work Fragment.Mirroring With expressively crafted gestures of Renaissance music, it leads into an intoxicating soundscape. The first movement, permeated with multi-layered sound, evokes a kind of acoustic architecture – the second, more freely and stylistically different, brings hope and movement into play.
Another work by Peter Tilling, Ein Schatten, schwebend, is exemplary for his exploration of Wagner's world of harmony. Inspired by Campana's poetry and Richard Wagner's Elegy in A-flat major a sound sculpture emerges between memory, condensation and dissolution.
Tristan Murail's impressive work Near Death Experience Reflects – between spectral analysis and emotional imagery – the experience of transition, inspired by Arnold Böcklin's "Isle of the Dead." A journey into the unknown, into the depths of perception.
Wolfgang Rihms IN FRAGE is a theatrical, multifaceted work that ranges from expressive outbursts to enigmatic detachment. Central motifs reappear like memory figures, pointing to an open, questioning ending.
Birke J. Bertelsmeier's Verwachsen creates a sounding organism from finely networked compositional techniques: individual voices merge into a colorful line – an aesthetically radical, yet touchingly poetic piece.
With Hans Jürgen von der Wense we meet an almost forgotten genius: Peter Tilling convicts his Music for Piano I–V as Music for Ensemble I–V in a colorful version for chamber orchestra. The soundscape is reminiscent of Schoenberg, Scriabin, and the Novembergruppe artist collective—and reveals an uncompromising artistic universe.
This album is an impressive panorama of new music that explores the boundaries between life, memory and transcendence.
Program
Peter Tilling (* 1975)
Fragment.Mirroring for large ensemble (2024)
– per M. S. –
Wolfgang Rihm (1952-2024)
IN FRAGE for ensemble (1999 / 2000)
Birke J. Bertelsmeier (* 1981)
Verwachsen for ensemble (2019 / 2020)
Cantabile
Hans Jürgen von der Wense (1894-1966)
Musik für Ensemble I–V (1915 / 2023)
Version for chamber orchestra by Peter Tilling after Musik für Klavier I–V
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Schmachtend Elegy in A-flat major for piano WWV 93 (Venice, 1858 / Palermo, 1881)
Peter Tilling, Piano
Peter Tilling (* 1975)
Ein Schatten, schwebend for large ensemble (2018 / 2024)
(Schmachtend) – mit großer Ruhe – Höhepunkt – coda lento, soave, lontano
Tristan Murail (* 1947)
Near Death Experience d’après L’Ile des morts d’Arnold Böcklin (2017)
♩ = 60 – Citadelle 1 – Tour – Citadelle 2 – Murs – Chemins 3 – La Porte – La Crypte – Chemin 4 – Chapelle – L’Ile – Escalier – Alvéoles – Tunnel A – Spirales – Tunnel B – Conclusion
ensemble risonanze erranti
Peter Tilling, conductor
Total running time: 78:01
World premiere recordings (except Wagner)
Biographies
The Munich ensemble risonanze erranti is one of the leading and most exciting soloist ensembles for new music. Founded by Peter Tilling, the ensemble is characterized by passionate and personal interpretations of new works. Performances have taken place at the Dialoge Salzburg Festival, the Mannheim Society for New Music, the Elbphilharmonie, the Movimentos Festival Wolfsburg, the Radialsystem Berlin, and the Ernst Krenek Forum in Krems, among others. In Munich, the musicians have played at the aDevantgarde Festival, the Munich Literature Festival, and regularly at the Orff Center Munich and the schwere reiter. The group works with composers such as Iris ter Schiphorst and Lucia Ronchetti and has performed world premieres and first performances of works by Tristan Murail, Salvatore Sciarrino, Nikolaus Brass, Wolfgang Rihm, Sidney Corbett, Jan Müller-Wieland, and Peter Ruzicka. In 2021, the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Concert Music for Violin and Small Chamber Orchestra took place.
The focus is on long-term collaborations with young composers, deliberately open to stylistic possibilities. This has resulted in new works by Birke J. Bertelsmeier, Nastaran Yazdani, Johannes Motschmann, Mithatcan Öcal, and Hèctor Parra. Another focus is Expressionist music, for example, with the premiere of Ernst Krenek's Second Symphonic Music, as well as works by Alfredo Casella and Hans Jürgen von der Wense. CDs with music by Benjamin Scheuer (Wergo) and Nikolaus Brass (NEOS) have been released, and further CDs with compositions by Thomas Wally (KAIROS) and Augustin Braud are planned.
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The conductor Peter Tilling (*1975) is passionate about unknown and new works. In addition to a successful career as an opera conductor, he works extensively with ensembles of new and early music. As artistic director of the ensemble risonanze erranti, he has conducted numerous premieres and first performances, including works by Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Tristan Murail, and Peter Ruzicka. In 2021, he conducted the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Op. 1, the concert music for solo violin and small chamber orchestra.
At the Bavarian Radio's musica viva, he conducted scenes from Stockhausen's Saturday of Light. He has conducted concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Ensemble Modern, the ensemble recherche, the Collegium
Novum Zurich and the œnm in Salzburg.
He has also conducted at the Teatro Real (La Clemenza di Tito), the Zurich Opera House (Die Frau ohne Schatten), the Salzburg Easter Festival (Satyricon, Lohengrin), the Opéra de Montpellier (Poppea), and the Nederlandse Opera (Dionysos by Wolfgang Rihm). In 2011, he conducted Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival with great acclaim. In 2019, he conducted a concert there (Diskurs Bayreuth), and in 2020, he conducted the Bavarian Radio TV production of The Loop of the Nibelung. As Deputy General Music Director at the Nuremberg State Theater, he has conducted Turandot, Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, The Flying Dutchman, Le Nozze di Figaro, Judas Maccabaeus, and Krol Roger.
He was an assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Franz Welser-Möst, and Sylvain Cambreling. In 2023, works by Klaus Ospald were released under his direction in the Bavarian Radio's musica viva CD series. Further recordings have been released by Berlin Classics (with Ensemble Modern), NEOS (a portrait CD of Nikolaus Brass), and Bayer Records.
As a cellist, he completed his concert examination with Martin Ostertag and played with the Munich Philharmonic, the Ensemble Modern and the Kastalia Quartet, among others.
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Info
Catalog number: NEOS 22501
EAN: 4260063225017
