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Format Details:
Release Date: 26 July 2024
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063123320
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
In this subject, "Man and Machine", the triad consisting of Georg Katzer's personality, his general and musically highly differentiated thinking and feeling, as well as his composing, forms a unity of simultaneously almost infinitely unfolding diversity. For him, there is no one-dimensional either-or. Through music, his all-encompassing world view - shaped by humanism and interpreting man as a holistic being - determines his artistically discursive view of the subject "man and machine", which is at times highly emotional.
The texts of all four works on this CD refer to L' homme machine (Man a Machine), a radical pamphlet published in 1748 by the 18th century French poet, philosopher, and thinker Julien Offray de La Mettrie in favour of the French Enlightenment. He had to flee from the Jesuits to Prussia in October 1748 and was granted asylum by the Prussian King Frederick II. The encounter with de La Mettrie's writings and his all-encompassing view of the subject of "man and machine" triggered the final impulse in Georg Katzer to comprehensively address the subject artistically, the problems of which had confronted him in everyday life in the GDR for all too long.
Georg Katzer, born in in 1935, studied composition in East Berlin and at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. He was a Master's student under Hanns Eisler at the Academy of Arts of the GDR, to which he was elected a member in 1978, and later appointed Professor of Composition. He founded the Studio for Electroacoustic Music here in 1982, of which he was Artistic Director until 2005. Georg Katzer died at the age of 84 on 7 May 2019 in Berlin.
Tracklisting
Robert M. Helmschrott
Robert M. Helmschrott
Kevin Juillerat, Cedric Pecia
Kaya Han
Helene Breschand, Laurence Bancaud, David Joignaux, Wilhem Latchoumia, Christelle Sery, Fanny Vicens, Wang Ying-Chieh, Ensemble Cairn, L'arsenale
Gunter Schwarze
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, SWR Experimentalstudio, Michael Acker
Georg Katzer, Matthias Bauer, Margarete Huber, Blaservereinigung Berlin, Bernd Casper, Gregorio Garcia Karman, Evelyn Saylor
Sarah Hennies
Uusinta Ensemble, Eija Kankaanranta, Maria Puusaari, Olga Heikkila, Kamus Quartet
Elizabeth Knatt, David Clements, Rachel Barnes, Scott Taylor
Robert M. Helmschrott
Robert M. Helmschrott
Kevin Juillerat, Cedric Pecia
Kaya Han
Helene Breschand, Laurence Bancaud, David Joignaux, Wilhem Latchoumia, Christelle Sery, Fanny Vicens, Wang Ying-Chieh, Ensemble Cairn, L'arsenale
