G Coates - Time Frozen: Works for Chamber Orchestra
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Label: Neos Music
Cat No: NEOS12315
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 9th February 2024
Contents
Works
Cette blanche agonieSymphony no.1 'Music on Open Strings'
Symphony no.16 'Time Frozen'
Wir tonen allein
Artists
Jessica Niles (soprano)Tobias Vogelmann (cor anglais)
Munchener Kammerorchester
Conductor
Ilan VolkovWorks
Cette blanche agonieSymphony no.1 'Music on Open Strings'
Symphony no.16 'Time Frozen'
Wir tonen allein
Artists
Jessica Niles (soprano)Tobias Vogelmann (cor anglais)
Munchener Kammerorchester
Conductor
Ilan VolkovAbout
There is also a historical model for the two vocal works Wir tönen allein and Cette blanche agonie completed in 1988: the orchestral song. The Mallarmé setting takes on an additional concertante character due to the inclusion of a wind soloist, who is required to play virtuosically almost throughout. For her orchestral songs, Coates chose posthumously published, late poems by Paul Celan (1920–1970) and Stephane Mallarmé (1842–1898), these being texts by two poets who were considered radical in their time, whose sometimes cryptic content invites many different interpretations.
Coates's 16th Symphony was also initially located outside her catalogued symphonic series. It was written as Time Frozen for chamber orchestra to mark the 25th anniversary of the Hamburg concert series "das neue werk". After a later revision, resulting in new movement titles among other features, the piece became her last contribution to the genre. Even if music as an art of time ultimately eludes the idea of being frozen, i.e. at a standstill, it is still possible to play with different concepts of time in a musically meaningful way.
Gloria Coates was born in 1933 in Wausau (Wisconsin, USA) and began composing and experimenting with overtones and clusters from an early age. Since 1969, Coates lived primarily in Europe. She has written numerous works including 17 symphonies, 10 string quartets, chamber music, solo and vocal music, musique concrète and the chamber opera Stolen Identity. Coates was also a poet and painter, with many of her paintings used as the artwork for her recordings.
Gloria Coates died on 19 August 2023 in Munich.
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