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Emmanuel Nunes / Rudolf Kelterborn - Piano Works | Guild GMCD7318

Emmanuel Nunes / Rudolf Kelterborn - Piano Works

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Label: Guild

Cat No: GMCD7318

Barcode: 0795754731828

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st January 2008

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About

Emmanuel Nunes, born in Lisbon in 1941, has established himself as one of the most significant Portuguese composers of his generation, with an extensive body of work covering a wide field. From the first, Nunes aligned himself with the leading movements in contemporary music, including electronic music, and he studied with several of the important figures in post-war European music, including Pousseur and Stockhausen. From 1986 until 1992 Nunes was Professor of composition at the Institut für Neue Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1992 he has taught at the Paris Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Musique et de Danse.
 
Rudolf Kelterborn was born in Basle in 1931 and is one of the leading Swiss composers, having produced a very large output of music ranging from opera and other stage works to pieces on the smallest scale, such as we find in several of the Sechs Klavierstücke. Kelterborn has also pursued a distinguished career in music administration, through which he has exerted a strong influence on European music during the past thirty years.
 
The contrast between the two compositions of Kelterborn and Nunes is typical of See Siang Wong’s recordings and concerts, in which he tries to build bridges between contrasts of introversion and extroversion, old and new and east and west. These works reflect each other in their contrasts, in that their characters shine forth even more strongly. The Litanies of Nunes, heard against the contrasting foil of Kelterborn’s miniatures, are akin to journeys through a new kind of landscape. Seen against the background of the Nunes, the Kelterborn seems like juggling a series of materials from European musical history. The listener is invited to join in this adventure.
 
This is a world premiere recording of the Kelterborn Piano Pieces 1-6.

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