NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE is an extraordinary album that combines key works of contemporary music with fascinating sonic references to the past and future.
Peter Tilling's two-part work Fragment.Mirroring leads into an intoxicating soundscape with expressively processed gestures from Renaissance music. The first movement, imbued with tonal complexity, evokes a kind of acoustic architecture—the second, freer and stylistically different, brings hope and movement into play.
Another work by Peter Tilling, Ein Schatten, schwebend (A Shadow, Floating), exemplifies his exploration of Wagner's world of harmony. Inspired by Campana's poetry and Richard Wagner's Elegy in A-flat major, it creates a sound sculpture between memory, condensation, and dissolution.
Tristan Murail's impressive work Near Death Experience reflects—between spectral analysis and emotional imagery—the experience of transition, inspired by Arnold Böcklin's “Isle of the Dead.” A journey into the unknown, into the inner realm of perception.
Wolfgang Rihm's IN FRAGE is a theatrical, multifaceted work that ranges from expressive outbursts to enigmatic aloofness. Central motifs reappear like figures from memory and point to an open, questioning ending.
Birke J. Bertelsmeier's Verwachsen uses finely interwoven compositional techniques to create a resonant organism: individual voices fuse into a colorful line – an aesthetically radical yet touchingly poetic piece.
Hans Jürgen von der Wense is an almost forgotten genius: Peter Tilling has transposed his Musik für Klavier I–Vinto a colorful version for chamber orchestra as Musik für Ensemble I–V . The sound world is close to Schoenberg, Scriabin, and the November Group artists' collective – revealing an uncompromising artistic universe.
This album is an impressive panorama of new music that explores the boundaries between life, memory, and transcendence.
Programme
Peter Tilling (*1975)
Fragment.Mirroring for large ensemble (2024)
– per M. S. –
Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024)
IN FRAGE for ensemble (1999/2020)
Birke J. Bertelsmeier (*1981)
Verwachsen for ensemble (2019/2020)
Cantabile
Hans Jürgen von der Wense (1894–1966)
Musik für Ensemble I–V (1915 / 2023)
Version for chamber orchestra by Peter Tilling after Musik für Klavier I–V
Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Schmachtend Elegy in A-flat major WWV 93 for piano (Venice, 1858/ Palermo, 1881)
Peter Tilling, piano
Peter Tilling (*1975)
Ein Schatten, schwebend for large ensemble (2018/2024)
(Schmachtend) – mit großer Ruhe – Höhepunkt – coda lento, soave, lontano
Tristan Murail (*1947)
Near Death Experience d’après L’Ile des morts d’Arnold Böcklin (2017)
♩ = 60 – Citadelle 1 – Tour – Citadelle 2 – Murs – Chemins 3 – La Porte – La Crypte – Chemin 4 – Chapelle – L’Ile – Escalier – Alvéoles – Tunnel A – Spirales – Tunnel B – Conclusion
ensemble risonanze erranti
Peter Tilling, conductor
Total playing time: 78:01
World premiere recordings (except Wagner)
Biographies
The Munich-based ensemble risonanze erranti erranti is one of the leading and most exciting soloist ensembles for new music. Founded by Peter Tilling, the ensemble is known for its passionate and personal interpretations of new works. It has performed at the Dialoge Salzburg Festival, the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Mannheim, the Elbphilharmonie, the Movimentos Festwochen Wolfsburg, the Radialsystem Berlin, and the Ernst Krenek Forum in Krems, among others. In Munich, the musicians have played at the aDevantgarde Festival, the Literaturfest München, and regularly at the Orff-Zentrum München and the schwere reiter. The group works with composers such as Iris ter Schiphorst and Lucia Ronchetti and has performed world and US premieres by Tristan Murail, Salvatore Sciarrino, Nikolaus Brass, Wolfgang Rihm, Sidney Corbett, Jan Müller-Wieland, and Peter Ruzicka. In 2021, they premiered Hans Werner Henze's Konzertmusik für Violine und kleines Kammerorchester (Concert Music for Violin and Small Chamber Orchestra).
The focus is on long-term collaboration with young composers, with an open approach to style. This has resulted in new works by Birke J. Bertelsmeier, Nastaran Yazdani, Johannes Motschmann, Mithatcan Öcal, and Hèctor Parra. Another focus is on Expressionist music, e.g. with the premiere of Ernst Krenek's Second Symphonic Music and works by Alfredo Casella and Hans Jürgen von der Wense. CDs featuring music by Benjamin Scheuer (Wergo) and Nikolaus Brass (NEOS) are available, with further CDs featuring compositions by Thomas Wally (KAIROS) and Augustin Braud planned.
risonanze-erranti.de
Conductor Peter Tilling (born 1975) is passionate about promoting unknown and new works. In addition to a successful career as an opera conductor, he works intensively with ensembles specializing in new and early music. As artistic director of the ensemble risonanze erranti, he has conducted numerous world and US premieres, including works by Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Tristan Murail, and Peter Ruzicka. In 2021, he conducted the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Op. 1, Concert Music for Solo Violin and Small Chamber Orchestra.
He conducted scenes from Stockhausen's Samstag aus Licht for Bavarian Radio's musica viva. He has conducted concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Modern, the ensemble recherche, the Collegium Novum Zurich, and the œnm in Salzburg.
He has also conducted at the Teatro Real (La Clemenza di Tito), the Zurich Opera House (Die Frau ohne Schatten), the Salzburg Easter Festival (Satyricon, Lohengrin), the Opéra de Montpellier (Satyricon, Lohengrin), and the Salzburg Festival (Die Frau ohne Schatten).
He has also conducted at the Teatro Real (La Clemenza di Tito), the Zurich Opera House (Die Frau ohne Schatten), the Salzburg Easter Festival (Satyricon, Lohengrin), the Opéra de Montpellier (Poppea), and the Nederlandse Opera (Dionysos by Wolfgang Rihm). In 2011, he conducted Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival with great success. In 2019, he conducted a concert there (Diskurs Bayreuth), and in 2020 he was the conductor of the Bavarian Radio TV production The Loop of the Nibelung. As deputy general music director at the Nuremberg State Theater, he conducted Turandot, Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, Der fliegende Holländer, Le Nozze di Figaro, Judas Maccabaeus, and Krol Roger.
He was assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Franz Welser-Möst, and Sylvain Cambreling. In 2023, works by Klaus Ospald under his direction were released in the Bavarian Radio's musica viva CD series. Further recordings were released by Berlin Classics (with the Ensemble Modern), NEOS (portrait CD Nikolaus Brass), and Bayer Records.
As a cellist, he completed his concert exam with Martin Ostertag and played with the Munich Philharmonic, the Ensemble Modern, and the Kastalia Quartet, among others.
peter-tilling.de
More information
Catalogue number: NEOS 22501
EAN: 4260063225017
