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Edition Zeitgenossische Musik: Karola Obermuller | Wergo WER64242

Edition Zeitgenossische Musik: Karola Obermuller

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Label: Wergo

Cat No: WER64242

Barcode: 4010228642421

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd January 2019

Contents

Artists

Kai Wessel (countertenor, bass)
Daniel Lippel (guitar)
Nuiko Wadden (harp)
Nathan Davis (dulcimer)
Emanuele Arciuli (piano)
Camilla Hoitenga (bass flute)
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Ensemble Phorminx
Ensemble Modern

Conductors

Warwick Stengards
Johannes Kalitzke

Works

Obermuller, Karola

... silbern
Myrmecia
Nichts Fettes nichts Susses
Pulstastung III for piano
Pulstastung II for piano
Pulstastung I for piano
Untergegangen der Mond
coiling and swaying for 18 instruments
mass:distance:time for 6 voices
reflejos distantes

Artists

Kai Wessel (countertenor, bass)
Daniel Lippel (guitar)
Nuiko Wadden (harp)
Nathan Davis (dulcimer)
Emanuele Arciuli (piano)
Camilla Hoitenga (bass flute)
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Ensemble Phorminx
Ensemble Modern

Conductors

Warwick Stengards
Johannes Kalitzke

About

Energetic as well as poetic is Karola Obermüller’s music, and it reveals hidden and unknown elements underneath the multilayered musical material.

Many of the works on this portrait CD in the series EDITION ZEITGENÖSSISCHE MUSIK were developed as work in progress during a long period of time. Distinctive for Obermüller’s work are therefore the reflection from several perspectives and the superposition of different layers of sound. Zooming in on musical details is another special feature in several of her pieces as in Pulstastung for example. Here the distances between the musical occurrences are going to be extended more and more, “with an increasing pulse at the same time” (Karola Obermüller). Obermüller is receiving a special inspiration by ancient poetic texts as from the greek poet Sappho. Here she finds the essences of human existence like light and night, eros and longing. In Untergegangen der Mond and …silbern her music tries “to create moments of magic“ (Volker Blumenthaler in the booklet of the CD).

In Myrmecia microtonal shiftings are confronted with percussive making of sound, which are creating a “strange, crackling, and insisting stream of sound”, the composer compares to the wild activity of the primordial ant, the title is derived from.

The instrumentation of the pieces on this CD offer a panorama from solo pieces for bass flute (Camilla Hoitenga) or piano (Emanuele Arciuli) and an extraordinary instrumentation with guitar, hammered dulcimer and harp (International Contemporary Ensemble) arriving at big pieces for ensemble (Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Musikfabrik).

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