Release Date: 25 November 2016
Label: Mdg
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760623197920
Genres:
Classical  
Composer/Series: Alexander Asteriades
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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.
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. Variationen Für Violine, Violoncello Und Klavier 14’20 über Motive Aus Dem Buch Hiob - Grave
- 2. Allegro
- 3. Intermezzo
- 4. Scherzo
- 5. Nachtstück
- 6. Lieder In Der Frühe (Mörike)
- 7. Heil, Dir, Mensch (Kazantzakis)
- 8. Vier Nachtgesänge Zwielicht (Eichendorff)
- 9. Dämmrung Senkte Sich Von Oben - (Goethe)
- 10. Um Mitternacht (Mörike)
- 11. Nachts (Mörike)
- 12. Wiederfinden (Goethe)
- 13. Le Dormeur Du Val (Rimbaud)
- 14. Drei Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Georg Trakl - Verfall
- 15. Ein Winterabend
- 16. Der Herbst Des Einsamen
- 17. Als Ich Nachher Von Dir Ging (Brecht)
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