4015372820558

Music For Imre Kertesz - Litwin, Webern, Klein & Zimmermann

Ensemble Resonanz, Stefan Litwin & Hanns Zischler

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Format: CD

Cat No: ES2055

Release Date:  01 June 2015

Label:  Es-Dur

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4015372820558

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    Imre Kertesz, born in Budapest in 1929 and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002, is one of the last remaining survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This recording reflects central aspects of his work in a collage of words and music.

    Threaded through the album are excerpts from Kertesz's 1993 work 'Galley Boat Log' read by the distinguished German actor Hanns Zischler while the music consists of pieces by composer/pianist Stefan Litwin, Anton Webern, Gideon Klein and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, performed by Litwin and the Ensemble Resonanz. The musical contributions are set in context and commented on by Kertesz's words.

    Stefan Litwin's melodrama '»…, die Holle aber nicht.«' (but not Hell) for speaker, piano and string quartet is based on a key scene in Imre Kertesz's first novel 'Fatelessness' and picks up the problematic aspect of dodecaphony, as already critiqued by Theodore W. Adorno in the Philosophy of New Music, and makes this musically tangible.

    Webern's Variations for piano, op 27, composed in 1935, was a model of dodecaphony later taken to the extreme in the high point of serialism after the Second World War. Finally, in the String Trios of Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gideon Klein, there is a contrast of two composers, whose fate in World War II could not have been more different: one was conscripted into the German Army and survived, the other murdered in a concentration camp.

    Hamburg's Ensemble Resonanz represent a new generation of musicians, bridging the gap between tradition and the present. Instead of working with a fixed conductor, the democratically-organised musicians collaborate with outstanding instrumentalists such as Jean-Guihen Queyras and Tabea Zimmermann as artists-in-residence. In October 2014 the Ensemble opened the "resonanzraum" in a bunker in Hamburg - a new urban space for classical music with a club atmosphere. For ES-Dur they have previously recorded CPE Bach's 6 Hamburg Symphonies.

    Personnel: Ensemble Resonanz, Stefan Litwin (piano), Hanns Zischler (voice)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ich Komme Mit Diesem Thema - So Höre Ich - Zu Spät. (excerpt From Galley Boat-Log)
      • 2. Stefan Litwin: "..., Die Hölle Aber Nicht." For Speaker, Piano And Strings (2009)
      • 4. 12-Ton-Technik (excerpt From Galley Boat-Log)
      • 5. Anton Webern: Variations For Piano, Op. 27: Sehr Mäßig
      • 6. Anton Webern: Variations For Piano, Op. 27: Sehr Schnell
      • 7. Anton Webern: Variations For Piano, Op. 27: Ruhig Fließend
      • 8. Schicksalslosigkeit, Ein Stolzes Buch (excerpt From Galley Boat-Log)
      • 9. Landkarten (excerpt From Galley Boat-Log)
      • 10. Gideon Klein: String Trio: Allegro Spiccato
      • 11. Gideon Klein: String Trio: Lento
      • 12. Gideon Klein: String Trio: Molto Vivace
      • 13. Atonaler Roman (excerpt From Galley Boat-Log)
      • 14. Gott, Ein Humorist (excerpt From Galley Boat-Log)
      • 15. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concert For String Orchestra: Introduktion. Mäßig Bestimmt
      • 16. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concert For String Orchestra: Aria. Langsam Mit Ausdruck
      • 17. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concert For String Orchestra: Finale. Mäßig Schnell