Liebermann: Concerto For Jazz Band / Furioso / Medea-monolog

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Release Date: 11 January 2002

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 747313588428

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: LIEBERMANN

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Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999)Orchestral and Vocal Works‘Call me simply a musician’, said Rolf Liebermann, but in fact during his life he worked in many fields of music. Born in Zurich on 14th September 1910, he studied law in his native city and had musical training at the Conservatory. In the early 1930s he made a living as a composer of chansons, but devoted himself to serious music, when he met Hermann Scherchen. In the 1940s he took composition lessons with Vladimir Vogel.From 1945 to 1957 Liebermann worked at Swiss Radio, after which he moved to Hamburg, where he served as head of the Music Section of North German Radio. From 1959 to 1973 he was Intendant at the Hamburg Staatsoper and subsequently at the Opéra in Paris. From 1985 to 1988 he held again the position of Intendant in Hamburg. That he also still collaborated in the cultural programmes of various broadcasting stations and undertook a busy series of activities in Salzburg as guest professor could explain why he was silent as a composer from the beginning of the 1960s and first became active again in this field in the 1980s. His musical language remained surprisingly constant, formed from a fusion of different styles and techniques: baroque, classical, twelve-tone and light music.The orchestral work Furioso was first performed on 27th July 1947 at Darmstadt, conducted by Hermann Scherchen, Liebermann’s friend and patron, and still remains among the best known of Liebermann’s compositions. The work, which brings together twelve-tone technique with a refined musical feeling, is in the three-part form of an Italian overture. The first part has an uninterrupted four-note ostinato figure, passages of furious rapidity and harsh syncopated chords. The slow middle section brings a singing theme for flute and cor anglais. In the recapitulation, the music of the first section returns, combined with the theme of the central section. In the middle ages in Basel, music for drum and pipe was heard on various festive occasions, among them the famous Fasnacht. This starts at four o’clock in the morning after the first Sunday in Lent: to the sound of drums and pipes, different groups go through the streets of the city with lanterns. The particular method of performance of the Basel drummer inspired many composers, among others Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger; yet it was Rolf Liebermann who first gave the instrument a solo part in a symphonic work, the Geigy Festival Concerto. The occasion was a commission from the Basel chemical firm J. R. Geigy AG to celebrate the bicentenary of their establishment; the first performance took place on 6th June 1958 in Basel. In the four movements of the work the Fasnacht events are depicted; Liebermann uses for the purpose different Basel melodies. At the beginning the song ‘z’Basel an mym Rhy’ is heard as a depiction of the still sleeping city. The call of the piper of the watch and of the watch, the first entry of the
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