Günter Wand, one of West Germany's most passionate advocates for contemporary music, was appointed director of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester in Cologne in 1945, and he immediately set the orchestra on a course of performing newly written music, as well as music that had been banned under the Nazis. This CD includes four modern ...
Nobody gets out of here alive -- it's a motto that worked for the Doors and it works here for violinist Rebekka Hartmann in her debut disc on the German Farao label. Opening with Bach's danse macabre Partita in D minor is already bold, but following that with Hindemith's life or death Sonata, Op. 11/6, and especially Zimmermann's heaven or hell ...
If Bernd Alois Zimmermann is regarded as a musical pluralist (i.e., one who accepted all styles and influences as equally valid, and dismissed the restrictions of the postwar schools), then his enigmatic works may be easier to understand as "outsider" music, rather than as inconsistent, confused experiments. In terms of sound production, melodic ...
Bernd Alois Zimmermann's powerful "ecclesiastical action" Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht, das geschah unter der Sonne (And turning then, I saw there great injustice that is done under the heavens), completed just days before his suicide, is a bleak depiction of life without hope or meaning. Using dire texts from the book of Ecclesiastes ...
Neos' 15th installment in its Musica Viva series includes three pieces by twentieth and twenty-first century Middle European composers that are significant for different reasons. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Concerto for violin and large orchestra (1950) is an established masterpiece by one of the most significant (but little known) postwar German ...
The conventional wisdom in German-speaking countries (and even beyond) is that Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten is the most important opera to be written since Wozzeck, and based on its topicality, its seriousness, the musical and intellectual rigor of its construction, its dramaturgical innovations, and its visceral emotional impact, it's ...
Bernd Aloïs Zimmermann's definitive statement was Requiem für einen jungen dichter (Requiem for a Young Poet, 1969-1969), a massive requiem scored for three choruses, soprano, and bass soloists with speaking parts assigned to actors and persons within the chorus, organ, electronic tapes, a jazz combo, and an orchestra of Straussian proportions. ...
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