More Nonsense: Chamber Music and Nonsense Songs by Matyas Seiber
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Label: C-AVI
Cat No: AVI8553370
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th June 2017
Contents
Works
Andante pastorale for clarinet and pianoDivertimento for clarinet and string quartet
Introduction and Allegro for clarinet, cello and piano
More Nonsense for soprano, clarinet, bass clarinet and guitar
Morgensternlieder (3) for soprano and clarinet
Serenade for wind sextet
The Owl and the Pussycat for soprano, violin and guitar
Artists
Kilian Herold (clarinet)Sarah Mia Sun (soprano)
Felix Borel (violin)
Phillip Roy (violin)
Hwa-Won Rimmer (violin)
Rapahel Sachs (viola)
Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Carsten Linck (guitar)
Nicholas Rimmer (piano)
Anton Hollich (clarinet)
Tino Plener (clarinet)
Saar Berger (horn)
Rune Brodahl (horn)
Rui Lopes (bassoon)
Angela Bergmann (bassoon)
Works
Andante pastorale for clarinet and pianoDivertimento for clarinet and string quartet
Introduction and Allegro for clarinet, cello and piano
More Nonsense for soprano, clarinet, bass clarinet and guitar
Morgensternlieder (3) for soprano and clarinet
Serenade for wind sextet
The Owl and the Pussycat for soprano, violin and guitar
Artists
Kilian Herold (clarinet)Sarah Mia Sun (soprano)
Felix Borel (violin)
Phillip Roy (violin)
Hwa-Won Rimmer (violin)
Rapahel Sachs (viola)
Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
Carsten Linck (guitar)
Nicholas Rimmer (piano)
Anton Hollich (clarinet)
Tino Plener (clarinet)
Saar Berger (horn)
Rune Brodahl (horn)
Rui Lopes (bassoon)
Angela Bergmann (bassoon)
About
Mátyás Seiber was all of those. His music, especially his chamber music, displays that same great variety, sometimes in crazy, witty mixtures. This CD features several works where Seiber shone the musical spotlight on the clarinet and/or on the human voice.
We encounter something even more unexpected and daring in the combination of clarinet and voice in the Three Morgenstern Songs (1929), with texts just as “wacky” as the other ones on this CD. A knee wanders alone through the world: someone first had to come up with such a crazy idea, and Christian Morgenstern was known to have a vast, occasionally bizarre imagination. In Mátyás Seiber’s setting we can picture the knee dressed up in clarinet tones, bouncing around the soprano as she sings. In Morgenstern’s “Gallows Songs”, a collection of poems published in 1905, certain texts graphically fall apart on the page: at one point, the words disappear down a funnel (Trichter). How can one set such a text to music? Seiber’s answer: through movement. The graphic textual image of a funnel becomes a film soundtrack where the voice, the clarinet and the text spiral headlong into the funnel and fall out the other end.
Perhaps half a century had to pass for a new generation of open-minded musicians to unearth and rediscover all the humor, feeling and energy that this music still holds in store for us, with its fearless self-assurance and its healthy disregard for limitations of genre or national borders. Many of these pieces are thus recorded here as world premičres. Seiber’s attitude was well ahead of its time and remains up-to-date, as necessary as ever. More nonsense, please!
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