Karlheinz Stockhausen & Luciano Berio: zeit(t)räume

This is a very enjoyable disc and a testament to the fine art of programming and sequencing a recording. — International Record Review, September 2013

Release Date: 3rd Jun 2013
Catalogue No: WER67492
Label: Wergo
Length: 60 minutes

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Stockhausen: Tierkreis: 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen: Version für Sopan und Klavier. 1. Steinbock

Work length2:02

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 2. Wassermann

Work length1:59

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 3. Fische

Work length2:26

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 4. Widder

Work length3:16

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 5. Stier

Work length2:41

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 6. Zwillinge

Work length2:40

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 7. Krebs

Work length2:20

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 8. Löwe

Work length2:09

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 9. Jungfrau

Work length2:03

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 10. Waage

Work length2:30

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 11. Skorpion

Work length2:13

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Stockhausen: Tierkreis. 12 Melodien der Sternzeichen. Version für Sopan und Klavier. 12. Schütze

Work length2:59

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Berio: Sequenza III per voce femminile

Work length9:36

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Claudia Böttcher

Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX

Work length11:18

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Jovita Zähl

Berio: Quatro Canzoni popolari per voce e pianoforte. Dolce cominciamento

Work length2:22

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Berio: Quatro Canzoni popolari per voce e pianoforte. La donna ideale

Work length1:08

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Berio: Quatro Canzoni popolari per voce e pianoforte. Avendo gran disio

Work length4:50

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

Berio: Quatro Canzoni popolari per voce e pianoforte. Ballo

Work length1:40

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Claudia Böttcher, Jovita Zähl

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The soprano Claudia Böttcher and the pianist Jovita Zähl have worked as a duo since 2008. Their concert programmes focus on music from the 20th and 21st centuries. The present CD 'zeit(t)räume' is dedicated to works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio.

Stockhausen's cycle 'Tierkreis' [Zodiac], originally composed for music boxes, is here presented in a version for soprano and piano. Twelve individually created melodies on texts compiled by Stockhausen himself emphasise the primary qualities of the star signs and connect them with their appropriate seasons, times of day, genders, elements, planets, and stages of growth.

Between 1958 and 2002 Berio wrote 14 sequences for various solo instruments. 'Sequenza III', on a text by the Swiss writer Markus Kutter, is the only true vocal composition of the cycle of works in which a wealth of emotional states, which can be expressed by the voice as the natural instrument of [wo]man, is articulated through sounds, syllables and words. The spectrum includes all possible forms of expression from singing and speaking, whispering and shouting, to laughing and crying.

Between 1952 and 1961 Stockhausen composed eleven 'Klavierstücke' [Piano Pieces]. His 'Klavierstück IX" shows, as an example, the characteristic principle of his serial thinking – to arbitrate gradually as well as organically between pairs of opposites: The composition "conveys forms of musical time: periodicity and an entire series of gradations in the aperiodicity. Static, ‘monotonous’ events are transformed into flexible, ‘polytonal’ ones; they are either placed abruptly next to each other or are mixed in constantly new combinations." (Stockhausen)

Berio’s vocal arrangements in 'Quattro canzoni populari' accentuate an important aspect of his musical thinking: the connection to tradition, without neglecting his impulse toward innovation. The special charm which characterises this vocal work grows out of Berio’s careful new interpretation of this traditional, historical folk song material.

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September 2013

This is a very enjoyable disc and a testament to the fine art of programming and sequencing a recording.

Karlheinz Stockhausen & Luciano Berio: zeit(t)räume

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