Goehr - Colossos or Panic, The Deluge, Little Symphony
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD165
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 21st May 2012
Contents
Artists
Claire BoothHilary Summers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
ASKO Ensemble
Conductor
Oliver KnussenWorks
Colossus or panicLittle Symphony, op.15
The deluge
Artists
Claire BoothHilary Summers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
ASKO Ensemble
Conductor
Oliver KnussenAbout
Goehr studied composition with Olivier Messiaen. The music scene of Paris made a great impression on him and he became good friends with Pierre Boulez and was heavily involved in the serialist avant-garde movement of the early 1960s.
“Unburdened by ideology and technical schemata, Goehr’s works fly free of their conceptualisation with the energy of pure artistic discovery. What he most values in his technical devices is an ability to throw up felicities of part-writing or reiterative rhythm which may be cultivated for their independent strangeness and beauty. Such trouvailles lend his music a very personal flavour even as they unlock the fragrance of the past.” - Paul Driver
Goehr’s orchestral evocation of Goya’s terrifying painting, Colossos, is coupled with the premiere recording of his early cantata The Deluge, inspired by Eisenstein’s notes for a film based on a writing by Leonardo da Vinci (the film was never completed).
The neo-classical Little Symphony uses the chordal structure of Mussorgsky’s ‘Catacombs’ from Pictures at an Exhibition as a harmonic backbone and is performed by the Dutch chamber orchestra ASKO Ensemble.
Contents:
1. Colossos or Panic
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen
The Deluge
2. Scena I
3. Scena II
4. Scena III
Claire Booth • Hilary Summers • BCMG / Oliver Knussen
Little Symphony
5. I Lentissimo, molto sostenuto
6. II Grave
7. III Molto allegro
8. IV Quasi recitando, tempo comodo
ASKO Ensemble / Oliver Knussen
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