Info text: MUSIC AND TEXT IN AN UNUSUAL LIAISON “From Trachila” by Thomas Hummel The problem of understanding has become the subject of various discourses in recent art studies, which extend to theories of incomprehension or illegibility. Music, as the most abstract of all arts, has always carried a considerable degree of indeterminacy. Today, not least […]

Info text: Orchestral works by Ernst Helmuth Flammer The shape of time, thinking about time as a phenomenological category, i.e. the content that is articulated through the shape of time in music, has always been important to me as a composer. Time thinking is to be understood both structurally and in categories of history and present, tradition and aesthetic […]

Info text: Driving back to Chicago for Christmas a decade or so ago, maybe less, David Sedaris, reading his story about taking French class in France, brought me to tears. Listening to David Sedaris read one of his stories is always better than reading one of his stories and if you do read one of his […]

Program: [01] 01:35 Perplexe 1 (R. Monteiro) [02] 10:28 L'Homme chaussure (J. Rühl) [03] 01:35 Perplexe 2 (C. Canonne) [04] 06:22 Mr Daïra (N. Nageotte) [05] 01:35 Perplexe 3 (J. Rühl) [06] 14:49 Squirrel 27 (C. Canonne) [07] 01:35 Perplexe 4 (N. Nageotte) [08] 07: 37 Villeuses Volutes (R. Monteiro) [09] 01:35 Perplexe 5 (J. Bruyère) [10] 07:40 Excusez–moi Thomas F. (J. Rühl) total time 55:30 Jérémy Bruyère, contrabass and electric bass Clément Canonne, piano and […]

Info text: "MOURNING MUSIC AS A PRAISE OF THE SUFFERING" The sound shape heard here reconstructs the original form of Johannes Brahms' German Requiem before its triumph in choral-symphonic sound power. This arrangement comes from the composer Heinrich Poos (born 1928), who primarily made vocal music and was a professor of music theory in Berlin for many years. Poos gives us a […]

Info text: SPACIOUS AND WEIGHTLESS As filigree and aesthetically balanced as Eckert's scores appeal to the viewer, they demand from the interpreters an extremely differentiated sound spectrum and dynamic gradations that go to the limits of what is possible, the edges of perception and technology Mark assets, but are binding, extremely binding in fact. Gestures and […]

Info text: ROBIN HOFFMANN LOCKEN for Birkhahn-Septett (2006) Who is actually luring whom here? Is it the hunter luring the black grouse in front of the gun? Or has the Weidmann, when he brings the bird out from behind the bush with his whistle, just followed the great call of nature? – At their sound, all the arts of self-proclaimed rat catchers fade away. So […]

Info text: RICHARD WAGNER ON BEETHOVEN'S "HEROIC SYMPHONY" This highly significant tone poem - the master's third symphony, and the work with which he first set out in his own unique direction - is in many respects not as easy to understand as its name suggests precisely because the title “heroic symphony” involuntarily leads one to […]

Info text: GUAI AI GELIDI MOSTRI – WOE TO THE ICE COLD MONSTERS »I felt and feel that I had to make unforeseen and unforeseeable music for Carnevali. Personally, I'm interested [...] not only in the gray, not only in the fractures that have been created, but in the BEAUTIFUL NEW THAT EXPLODES - TRAGIC - EVEN VIOLENT - BUT STRIVING FOR THE MOST GENTLE [...]

Info text: CONCERT POUR PIANO SEUL (CONCERT FOR PIANO ALONE) Original version of the 3rd Piano Sonata op.14, based on the autograph in the British Library, London Robert Schumann perhaps lives on primarily in his compositions for the piano. There is therefore no need to spark a rank dispute with the song and vocal composer, especially since Schumann's aftermath has a […]

Info text: THE PIANO WORK OF WOLFGANG RIHM My first contact with Wolfgang Rihm's piano music came relatively late. About eight years ago I heard the piano piece 5 “Tombeau” in a concert. I was spontaneously carried away by the dark power of this music. Like an outcry, a dark rebellion, with three exclamation marks after it... The strong architectural [...]

Info text: ROBERT HP PLATZ: PIANO PIECES Robert HP Platz pursues a stringent artistic concept. All pieces written since 1989 fit into an 'integral' body of work in which each building block is independent and can be performed separately, but is designed with a view to its integration into an overarching 'form-polyphonic' fabric. Also place' piano music […]