Nach Innen (Toward The Inside)

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'ni' consists of several chamber "miniatures", in which for the most part pitched gestures gradually give way to noise-based, unstable sonorities...there's something undeniably compelling in... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

Release Date: 8th Nov 2010
Catalogue No: WER68562
Label: Wergo
Series: edition musikFabrik
Length: 58 minutes

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Willcock, I: Grave

Work length12:58

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
James Wood

André: ni

Work length18:28

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Rupert Huber

Track length2:30

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Track length3:31

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III

Track length2:36

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Track length3:05

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Track length2:18

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Track length2:14

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VII

Track length2:14

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Saariaho: Graal théâtre

Work length27:23

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Peter Rundel

I. Delicato

Track length16:47

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II. Impetuoso

Track length10:36

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St. Augustine advised his coevals to seek the truth in the ‘inner man’. Such inwardness seems far removed from the reality of life in the 21st -century. Perhaps that is why a tendency to focus on internal processes has emerged in the music of the last few decades – not in the sense of a new subjectivity, in which sentimental private matters are put on display, but rather in the sense of an exploratory introspection: It's a question of increasing the intensity.

Mark Andre seeks existential sonic situations on his path ‘toward the inside’ (nach innen, to quote the fully written-out title of his piece ‘ni’). Like Andre, the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has also delved into the internal nature of sound. Her music originates in the rich variety of spectral harmonies and it sets itself the task of telling a very old story in a new way: a violin concerto as the legend of the grail. An entirely different aspect of inner life manifests itself in Ian Willcock's piece. He visits the discoverer of the unconscious, Sigmund Freud, on his deathbed. At the start of the 20th-century, Freud's glimpses of the ‘inside’ showed that there is more to be found there than the truth: the phantasm.

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April 2011

'ni' consists of several chamber "miniatures", in which for the most part pitched gestures gradually give way to noise-based, unstable sonorities...there's something undeniably compelling in this scorched-earth approach, even as in movement after movement one is returned to silence.

Nach Innen (Toward The Inside)

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