Alfred Zimmerlin - Euridice (Chamber Music)
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Label: ECM New Series
Cat No: 4763261
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 25th May 2009
Contents
Works
Euridice singtString Quartet no.1
String Quartet no.2 'mit kleinen Wellen an jedem Blattrand'
Artists
Ensemble AequatorAria Quartet
Carmina Quartet
Works
Euridice singtString Quartet no.1
String Quartet no.2 'mit kleinen Wellen an jedem Blattrand'
Artists
Ensemble AequatorAria Quartet
Carmina Quartet
About
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 and works for radio and film. This 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. Orpheus is not 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.
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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