Salzburg Festival 2004: Kurtag / Widmann
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Label: Neos Music
Cat No: NEOS10708
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st December 2007
Contents
Artists
Claudia Barainsky (soprano)Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music (OENM)
Conductor
Rudiger BohnWorks
Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova, op.17Umdustert (for chamber ensemble)
Artists
Claudia Barainsky (soprano)Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music (OENM)
Conductor
Rudiger BohnAbout
Kurtág’s cycle Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova for soprano and chamber orchestra, op. 17 (1976–1980), which centres on the failure of human relations, is based on the poems by the Russian poet Rimma Dalos. In language as grotesque as it is drastic and at the limits of self-respect, it lays out one woman’s ideas about loneliness, exhibitionism, and deprivation.
Widmann focuses on the sculpting of sounds: individual instrumental textures of variable density alternate and thereby initiate a process of slipping in and out of different tonal qualities that grows ever thinner toward the end until it finally dissolves into quiet fragments. The word “umdüstert” occurred frequently in Romantic literature, and this fading out of the composition can certainly be read as an indication of an existential point of reference of the music.
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