Info text: John Cage: ASLSP How slow is “as slow as possible”? John Cage composed ASLSP for solo piano in 1985. In July 1987, at the suggestion of organist Gerd Zacher, he undertook the legendary arrangement for organ entitled Organ 2/ASLSP. ASLSP stands for “as slow as possible”. These playing instructions have informed the performers [...]

Info text: PETER RUZICKA – PIANO WORKS FIVE SCENES Peter Ruzicka noted in 2009 on the occasion of a new production of his opera CELAN that some central moments of the large orchestral score could be “represented” in a new aesthetic form in the linearity of the piano writing. In this opera, key traumatic experiences in the life of the poet, who survived the Holocaust, are revisited in many ways [...]

Info text: The Line Taking a Walk Modular Thinking about the form of my works, it seems to me as if I were walking in a labyrinth: I lose the thread of the musical discourse, only to find it again after many twists and turns. In a labyrinth, every step we take is fraught with great uncertainty; our sense of direction is confused by the […]

Info text: SCHUMANN METAMORPHOSES AND PIANO SONATAS Hermann Keller continues to compose “score music” and, when he improvises at the piano, he always evokes the sleep of real discovery. The fact that the passionate artist needs counterparts to give his music authenticity and vitality is, for him, a cardinal prerequisite for creative work. Applying design techniques carefully and always giving them new […]

Info text: SECOND PIANO CONCERT AND CHAMBER MUSIC Hermann Keller is the prototype of an improviser who is as thoughtful as he is restless, releasing unexpected inventions and who knows how to let the famous spark fly. One of his favorite activities: the ex tempore on the grand piano, which he realizes in madness acts on the keys as well as in the body of the instrument. What to intone […]

Info text: CONNECTIONS - SYNÁPSIES "Whole and non-whole, united and separated, unanimous and discordant - and from all one and from one everything." This epigram by Heraclitus has accompanied and inspired me for many years. For me, in its incomparable succinctness and concentration, it is also a wonderful expression of my inner goal to […]

Info text: Georg Katzer · String quartets The string quartets are certainly not the focus of Georg Katzer's extensive work, and yet they accompany his entire development as a composer: almost as if he had his own position at intervals of around 20 years based on the traditional format want to redefine each time. They are not a sum of his […]

Info text: BARTÓK – RIHM Bartók had already demonstratively made his preference for the combination of piano and drums public a decade before the quartet sonata: in his first piano concerto, in which the new prominence of the drums is also visually demonstrated by the fact that the players “immediately “be placed behind the piano”. For Bartók, piano and percussion belong to one family, after all, when […]

Info text: PRAISE OF PERSPECTIVE It is certainly no coincidence that Martino Traversa almost exclusively associates his compositions with sensory impressions. In Manhattan Bridge 4:30 am there are visual-spatial impressions, visual-acoustic ones in Bianco, ma non troppo, exclusively visual ones (with allusions to painting) in Quadrato bianco, su sfondo bianco, and finally purely sound ones in Dopo il respiro and Rimane , l'eco. In these cases […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time 70:55 Beat Furrer (*1954) [01] Spur for piano and string quartet (1998) 12:40 Hsin-Huei Huang, piano · stadler quartet Mauricio Sotelo (*1961) [02] Audéeis for voice and string quartet (2004) 23:03 Arcángel, flamenco voice · stadler quartet Beat Furrer [03] op. 2008/09 for piano and instrument […]

Info text: Elliott Carter – Cello Concerto Contrasting encounter between instrumental protagonists The English conductor Oliver Knussen sees Elliott Carter as the “most important contemporary musical dramatist in the field of instrumental composition”. For his scores, Elliott Carter creates real scenarios in which the instrumentalists act as individual characters. In his cello concerto from 2001 he also deals with [...]

Info text: musica viva Munich Forum for Contemporary Music Since its founding by the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1945, the Bayerischer Rundfunk's 'musica viva' concert series has been one of the world's most important forums for contemporary music. Premieres and historical milestones of modernity are the concept of these monthly concerts. In January and February 2008 […]