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The French photo documentation artist JR and Luigi Nono are paradigmatic for Ernst Helmuth Flammer's work for vocal soloists: inside, with the great singer Nicholas Isherwood being an important source of inspiration for his composition. His broad experimental range of vocal textures, of various very denatured vocal techniques - a plateau for alienation techniques - and his equally brushed against the grain range of expression offer a broad reservoir of musical commentary levels, semantically expressive even without text.
Homs, against oblivion... Paris, from a house of the dead... submission...? – An epic cantata for solo baritone searches for truths, truths of Umanità that are not linear, that are not simple, there is no such thing as one truth. Each of these seven parts is introduced with the probing question: "What is truth?", which returns as a kind of refrain. The title Forward ... 4, spatial à l'évocation infini et échappée for bass voice and tape could read in German: »spatially infinite in imagination and escaped« (in the sense of no longer comprehensible, unimaginable). "The world as will and imagination," as a utopia (!), as a dream (?). Yes and no! Not the world we perceive. In Almería, tu terra quemada the six-part text, interrupted by refrains that continue to develop, is juxtaposed with the music in a way that illustrates and comments on it in an alienated way. |
program:
[01] Spaziofonia-Polimorfia II for 4-channel tape (2018/22) 08:09 [02] Homs, against oblivion... Paris, from a house of the dead... submission...? An epic cantata 30:27 Nicholas Isherwood, baritone [03] Forward ... 4, spatial à l'évocation infini et échappée for bass voice and tape (2016) 19:52 Nicholas Isherwood, bass [04] Almería, tu terra quemada (Almería, your scorched earth) for three vocalists with percussion and electronics (1985/87) 20:36 Voxnova Italia Total playing time: 79:08 first recordings |