Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Recomposed - Wergo: WER73872 - 3 CDs

I cannot recommend this issue highly enough. It is so entertaining, so thought-provoking, and fills out a portrait of a composer who does not deserve to be forgotten. Holliger and his orchestra... — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2022
Catalogue No: WER73872
Label: Wergo

Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Conductor of the Year
Gramophone Magazine

Critics' Choice 2023

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Zimmermann, B A: Alagoana. Caprichos Brasileiros

Zimmermann, B A: Bolero moderato

Zimmermann, B A: Un petit rien

Zimmermann, B A: Rheinische Kirmestänze

Zimmermann, B A: Kontraste

Zimmermann, B A: Intermezzo (Valse triste)

Zimmermann, B A: Concertino for piano and orchestra

Zimmermann, B A: Concerto for string orchestra

Zimmermann, B A: Symphony in one movement

Zimmermann, B A: Souvenir d’ancien balet

Zimmermann, B A: Stille und Umkehr

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970) was one of the most distinctive composers in the musical avant-garde after the Second World War. While Karlheinz Stockhausen served as a kind of ‘generator’ in Cologne during the 1950s and 60s, inventing completely new sounds and techniques, Zimmermann was in many ways his opposite, a ‘transformer’ who redefined previously existing material by placing it in new contexts and collage-like structures, anticipating the ideas of the Postmodernists. This new release from WERGO presents a fresh perspective onthe composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose tragic suicide shortly after the completion of “Stille und Umkehr” shocked the musical world. His fascinating instrumental effects and his embrace of popular and traditional music make his works feel much more at home in our contemporary world than they did in the cultural atmosphere of his time, with its faith with technology and progress.

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May/June 2023

I cannot recommend this issue highly enough. It is so entertaining, so thought-provoking, and fills out a portrait of a composer who does not deserve to be forgotten. Holliger and his orchestra relish the various stylistic markers as much as Zimmermann did, and their performances of the Symphony in One Movement and Alagoana beat all recorded competition.

February 2023

Anyone following the Wergo series will need little prompting to acquire this latest release, but those new to or curious about this composer should make it their first port of call on what will prove an engrossing if unsettling journey.

7th December 2022

Unexpected and delightful, with lively performances by the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Heinz Holliger, this is an absolute tonic.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Recomposed

3 CDs

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