Munchener Kammerorchester, Ilan Volkov, Jessica Niles, Tobias Vogelmann
Release Date: 09 February 2024
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063123153
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
In 1978, a sensation at the Warsaw Autumn Festival was caused by a woman composer's sonically groundbreaking opus, which bore the soberly descriptive title Music on Open Strings: music on empty,(non-fingered), strings. At that time, being a woman made an eminent difference in one's artistic career. When Gloria Coates appeared with this work on the musica viva programme in Munich in 1980, it was the first work by a woman composer to be performed since the concert series was founded in 1946. Music on Open Strings is a particularly successful example of the radical path taken by the American composer and remains one of her best-known works to this day.
There is also a historical model for the two vocal works 'Wir Tonen Allein' and 'Cette Blanche Agonie' completed in 1988: the orchestral song. The Mallarme setting takes on an additional concertante character due to the inclusion of a wind soloist, who is required to play virtuosically almost throughout. For her orchestral songs, Coates chose posthumously published, late poems by Paul Celan (1920-1970) and Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), these being texts by two poets who were considered radical in their time, whose sometimes cryptic content invites many different interpretations.
Coates' 16th Symphony was also initially located outside her catalogued symphonic series. It was written as Time Frozen for chamber orchestra to mark the 25th anniversary of the Hamburg concert series "das neue werk". After a later revision, resulting in new movement titles among other features, the piece became her last contribution to the genre. Even if music as an art of time ultimately eludes the idea of being frozen, i.e. at a standstill, it is still possible to play with different concepts of time in a musically meaningful way.
Gloria Coates was born in 1933 in Wausau (Wisconsin, USA) and began composing and experimenting with overtones and clusters from an early age. Since 1969, Coates lived primarily in Europe. She has written numerous works including 17 symphonies, 10 string quartets, chamber music, solo and vocal music, musique concrete and the chamber opera Stolen Identity. Coates was also a poet and painter, with many of her paintings used as the artwork for her recordings.
Gloria Coates died on 19 August 2023 in Munich.
"Volkov and the Munich Kammerorchester are joined by soprano Jessica Niles, who aligns with oboist Tobias Vogelmann to give an absolutely searing account of Cette blanche agonie. [Niles'] voice has a steely determination that keeps the line laser-focused throughout." – 5against4.com
Tracklisting
Andreas Skouras, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Pascal Dusapin, Unsuk Chin, Y
Mikael Rudolfsson, Olivier Vivares, Gerard Grisey, Luciano Berio, Eloain Lovis Hubner, Bernhard Gan
John Palmer, Delphine Henriet, Barbara Maurer, Hofer Symphoniker, Alinde Quartett, Johannes Klumpp,
Johannes Maria Staud, Boulanger Trio, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ludwig Chamber Players,
Eres Holz, Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson, Laurent Bruttin, Florian Juncker, E-MEX Ensemble, Christoph Maria
Robert M. Helmschrott
Robert M. Helmschrott
Kevin Juillerat, Cedric Pecia
Tomasz Skweres, Ensemble Reconsil, Osterreichisches Ensemble fur Neue Musik, Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej
Jean-Marie Machado & Danzas Orchestra
Eric Lamb, Stefanie Alexandra Prenn, Angela Calvo Rios, Kaoko Amano, Veronica Klavzar
Kari Beate Tandberg
SWR Vokalensemble, IRCAM, Yuval Weinberg
Marco Fusi
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke, Bas Wiegers, Alessandro Baticci, Rafal Zalech
Sofia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg, Zwerm
