Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer; Marcus Weiss; Hildegard Kleeb
Release Date: 22 September 2017
Label: Huddersfield Contemporary Rec
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060217670125
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Description
Verkündigung ("Annunciation") is one of the earliest works in Peter Ablinger's catalogue, and a cornerstone for connoisseurs of his work. Composed in 1990, in Verkündigung the groundwork for his subsequent work is laid out. In exploring noise and densification, Ablinger thematises perception itself: raising awareness about listening and, through listening, about the listener.
'My work on Verkündigung began when Marcus Weiss urged me to come up with an improvisation piece. Around that time, I happened upon Domenico Veneziano's painting Verkündigung and found my own musings reflected in that painting's stark opposition between symmetrical Renaissance architecture and the free "gestures" of the angel and the Virgin Mary. At some point, I began striving to dissolve this very opposition of architecture and gesture, aiming for a conception which could contain both elements at once, in every moment - and theoretically in every sound; where one might merge at any moment into the other, or where one may appear in the other's place.' Peter Ablinger
Tracklisting
ELISION Ensemble
Ernest Berk
Mira Benjamin, Zubin Kanga, Scott McLaughlin
Louise Devenish
Carl Rosman
Riot Ensemble
Wet Ink Ensemble
Various Artists
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
Ruby Rushton
Bob James & David Sanborn
