Jörg Gottschick, Nicola Birkhan,Verena Obermayer, Paul Rivin
Release Date: 25 November 2016
Label: Mdg
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760623197920
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Alexander Asteriades
Description
A disc of Songs and Variations for violin, violoncello and
piano on motifs from the Book of Job.
The music of Alexander Asteriades moves “out of the cul-de-sac of atonality.” And so it is not without good reason that the composition of songs with piano accompaniment, very much in the tradition of the nineteenth century, accounts for a significant part of his oeuvre.
As in the songs of his great models, Goethe, Eichendorff, and Möricke are encountered among the poets of his texts – but he has also set Georg Trakl and Nikos Kazantzakis.
Although Asteriades’ songs are tonal, they pose supreme challenges to the interpreters; their grand leaps, extreme registers, and long melodic lines require a singer of superb
skill and a pianist who supplies a finely felt and multifaceted accompaniment.
Asteriades draws on Martin Buber’s translation of the Book of Job as his source of inspiration in this five-part work. Buber’s
text endeavors to reproduce the verbal rhythm of the Hebrew original and as a result assumes a very unique musicality. It is from a little seed that the composer develops the musical material evoking the moods of this famous sapiential work in a finely crafted setting.
Tracklisting
Moor Mother, Wooden Elephant, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dirk Kaftan
Detmolder Hornisten
Jan von Busch, Johann Blanchard
Ensemble BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Tibor Gyenge, Michael Schoch
Ben van Oosten
Gudrun Sidonie Otto, Elvira Bill, Georg Poplutz, Thilo Dahlmann Goldberg Baroque & Vocal Ensemble,
Michael Schoch
