Info text: At the Weinberg retrospective at the Bregenz Festival in 2010, the staged premiere of his opera "The Passenger" was the focus, but the performance of over twenty other works provided an insight into the incredible wealth of this forgotten composer's oeuvre. Weinberg felt compelled to compose in order to survive the Holocaust as the only one in his family [...]

Info text: Epigraph The gun barrels are still warm and the sand hasn't absorbed all the blood, but peace has come. Take a breath, people, after the threshold of war has been crossed... (А. Twardowski) 1. Bread and iron (Dmitri Kedrin; 1907-1945) Bread ripens on the ground, where there is sun and coolness, where the rain rustles loudly and birds […]

Info text: At the Weinberg retrospective at the Bregenz Festival in 2010, the staged premiere of his opera "The Passenger" was the focus, but the performance of over twenty other works provided an insight into the incredible wealth of this forgotten composer's oeuvre. Weinberg felt compelled to compose in order to survive the Holocaust as the only one in his family [...]

Info text: [02] The little violin Lev Kvitko I broke a box, a small chest made of plywood: From the side the box looks completely like a little violin. I attached four little hairs to a branch. Nobody has ever seen a bow like that. I stuck and I tuned, worked day and night, out came a little violin […]

Info text: Homage à FD – Imaginary Scenes for five instruments and female voice The purely musical (therefore “imaginary”) scenes give the audience plenty of space to develop their own associative fantasies. When listening to this music, you can also imagine scenes that are “populated” with all sorts of characters from Dürrenmatt’s plays: an angel, Nebuchadnezzar, Kurrubi, Romulus, Knipperdollinck, Ann, Schwitter, […]

Info text: The string quartets by György Kurtág György Kurtág's music is full of moments in which things long past resonate through the corridors of time. In the 6 Moments musicaux, shortly before the end, it is the…rappel des oiseaux…in which the birds remind us of earlier times. Almost half a century lies between this fleeting memory and the “Bird-Scherzo” of the first [...]

Info text: THE SOUND AS A NUCLEAR Unfortunately, Luigi Nono has published little on the aesthetics of his late work, which is why it seems legitimate to report here on a lecture that he gave in 1983 as part of a seminar in the EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO in Freiburg. Based on a spectral analysis that he carried out for the flute together with Hans Peter Haller and Roberto Fabbriciani [...]

Info text: PYNCHON CYCLE In the summer of 1998 I felt a double need. Firstly, I wanted to work on two completely opposite work cycles in order to expand the range of my music and explore its extremes. One cycle was to be dedicated to the composer György Kurtág. Secondly, I wanted to pay homage to one of my favorite writers, Thomas Pynchon. Did I want to compose […]

Info text: Manfred Trojahn – String Quartets To date, there are four string quartets recorded in Manfred Trojahn's list of works, namely from the years 1976, 1979/80, 1983 and 2009. Meanwhile, Trojahn has written further works for this line-up, sometimes expanded with additional instruments - as he has already done in the 2nd string quartet, where mezzo-soprano and clarinet complement the string ensemble in three movements. In […]

Info text: Arturo Corrales · Canon fractal por aumentación sobre una melodía popular (FOLK YOU!) for recorder, violin and electronics (2009) The thousand birds that can be heard, the lightning-fast sounds as well as the long sustained tones of the electronics, the various and simultaneous speeds of the instruments set in the Hoquetus...everything, but also everything "is" the introductory sung melody, [...]

Program: [01] Ekstare (1988/90) for flute, oboe, violin, viola and violoncello 07:11 Martina Roth, flute · Alexander Ott, oboe · Friedemann fahrer, violin Jessica Rona, viola · Beverley Ellis, violoncello [02] temps et couleurs I (1995) for flute and guitar 12:49 Martina Roth, flute · Jürgen Ruck, guitar [03] String trio – le son d'un monde secret et couvert (1994) 08:54 Friedemann fahrer, […]

Info text: Fabián Panisello – György Ligeti Piano etudes The etude is originally a conceptually reduced composition that has a didactic purpose in particular and confronts the instrumentalist with a technical problem. A character that is both virtuosic and mechanical are the defining characteristics of the numerous etudes published at the beginning of the 19th century (Anton Reicha, Johann B. [...]