GOEBBELS, HEINER: The Italian Concerts
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With Chris Cutler, The Icarus Ensemble, Sira and Boubacar Djebate, Johannes Bauer, Tiziano Popoli, Jocelyn B. Smith and the Orchestra of the Teatro Popoli, Bologna, conducted by Yoichi Sugiyama, this is a rare release from one of the pioneers of contemporary cross-platform composition. Working with montage, superposition and elements of different musical languages, Heiner sidesteps genre to concentrate on the material. This CD comprises four high quality (world premiere) recordings that feature a disparate set of compositions performed at a three-city festival organised by Angelica in 2007. The Italian concerto/Tutti Writing marks a now vanishingly rare live appearance from Heiner in an extended duet with Chris Cutler, concluding with TuttiWriting, in which they are joined by the Icarus Ensemble. This is followed by Ou bien Sunyatta for Kora, Voice and Orchestra, Die Faust im Wappen, derived from a story by Franz Kafka, for trombone (Johannes Bauer) and orchestra and So that the blood dropped to the earth, for orchestra and voice adapted from Surrogate Cities. These are remarkable and substantial pieces.
Heiner Goebbels piano, percussion
Chris Cutler drums, electrified drums
Sira Djebate voice
Boubacar Djebate kora
Johannes Bauer trombone
Jocelyn B. Smith mezzosoprano
Franck Ollu conductor
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Tiziano Popoli keyboard, sampler
Yoichi Sugiyama conductor
Ensemble Icarus
1 THE ITALIAN CONCERTO / WRITING II 19.27
for piano, drums, electrified drums and ensemble
2 OU BIEN SUNYATTA 16.35
for kora, voice and orchestra
3 DIE FAUST IM WAPPEN 12.01
version for trombone and orchestra
4 So That Blood Dropped to the Earth 6.38
for mezzosoprano and orchestra
2028
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