Alfred Zimmerlin - Euridice (Chamber Music) - ECM: 4763261 - CD or download

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Release Date: 25th May 2009
Catalogue No: 4763261
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 58 minutes

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Zimmerlin: 2. Streichquartett

Work length10:59

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Matthias Enderle (violin), Susanne Frank (violin), Wendy Champney (viola), Stephan Goerner (cello)
Carmina Quartett
Recorded: 2006-08-29
Recording Venue: Studio 1 Radio Drs, Zurich

Zimmerlin: Euridice singt

Work length35:17

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Matthias Arter (oboe), Ingrid Karlen (piano), Tobias Moster (cello), Sylvia Nopper (soprano)
Aequatuor Ensemble
Recorded: 2007-10-30
Recording Venue: Kultur- & Kongresshaus, Aarau

1. Orpheus, Euridice

Track length6:06

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2. Chor

Track length0:31

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3. Euridice

Track length3:26

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4. Chor, Orpheus

Track length3:37

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5. Orpheus, Euridice, Chor

Track length3:37

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6. Intermezzo - 7. Euridice

Track length11:24

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8. Chor

Track length0:20

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9. Euridice, Orpheus

Track length6:16

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Zimmerlin: 1. Streichquartett

Work length12:23

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Thomas Füri (violin), Adelina Oprean (violin), Ettore Causa (viola), Conradin Brotbek (cello)
Aria Quartett
Recorded: 2006-08-29
Recording Venue: Studio 1 Radio Drs, Zurich

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Alfred Zimmerlin (born 1955), who won an early international reputation as an improvising cellist, has long been known in his native Switzerland as a prolific composer of strong sonic imagination, assured technique and resourceful talent. His catalogue of more than 70 compositions includes solo pieces, music with live electronics alongside works for radio and film. The ECM debut album introduces him with three attractive works for small forces, all of them in performances both energetic and sensitive. “Euridice singt”, a 35-minute “Szene” for soprano, oboe, cello, piano and tape is based on a libretto by Swiss poet, rapper and free improviser Raphael Urweider. Not Orpheus himself is the central character in this intelligent rendering of the much-used operatic subject matter from Greek mythology but Euridice, whose death is shown here as the very catalyst for Orpheus’ artistic awakening. A most diverse array of musical elements makes for unsettling listening. The interest in a formally elastic integration of heterogenous materials lies at the heart of Zimmerlin’s aesthetic in which the concept of the “column of time” plays a central role – the awareness that many layers of the historical past are communicating with each other while providing the fundamentals for a genuinely “contemporary” music. In Zimmerlin’s strangely sensuous compositions there is space for expressive cantabile, the sound of prepared instruments, noises of musique concrète and even rap.

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