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Musica Viva 15: Eotvos / Zimmermann / Smolka | Neos Music NEOS10705

Musica Viva 15: Eotvos / Zimmermann / Smolka

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Label: Neos Music

Cat No: NEOS10705

Barcode: 4260063610059

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st December 2007

Contents

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano, keyboard)
Martin Humelter (violin)
Wolfram Winkel (percussion)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Peter Eotvos

Works

Eotvos, Peter

Cap-ko

Smolka, Martin

Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews

Zimmermann, Bernd Alois

Violin Concerto

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano, keyboard)
Martin Humelter (violin)
Wolfram Winkel (percussion)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Peter Eotvos

About

Peter Eötvös is one of those who set the tone in the New Music scene, not just as a composer but also as a conductor and teacher.

Cap-Ko is the homage to Eötvös’ great model Bartók. That applies even to the details. Bartók’s penchant for parallel lines gave Eötvös the idea of using an instrument that makes it possible to play these parallel lines on the piano not with two hands but rather with one. This necessitated that Eötvös rediscovered the digital keyboard, for that made possible a second note sound with every note played, with the interval between the notes alterable at will, as with an organ mixture. In addition there is a traditional grand piano with a fixed right pedal, which produces an echo-like reverberation with every note played that is never muted. Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays both instruments alternately.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann does not have to be introduced any more. With his opera 'Die Soldaten' and his 'Requiem für einen jungen Dichter' he became known in the 1960s as one of the leading composers of the generation that emerged after the Second World War. The Violin Concerto is a work that displays the characteristics of Zimmermann’s composition: It sets its tone forcefully and unmistakably.

Martin Smolka works with intervals that he finds in “natural” sounds. His works, in which he uses various forms of microtonality, are performed at all the current festivals for contemporary music – this one, recorded at musica viva in Munich was premiered in Donaueschingen in 2000: “I was asked to write a choral piece on the subject of violence in our society. But I was rather attracted by the violence that our society commits – against nature, against our home planet. And I preferred to be positive in my music rather than creating a kind of protest song.

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