Iván Fischer - Composer's Portrait 1 (2016)

Tracklist
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01. Fanfare
02. La Malinconia
03. Spinoza Translations: I. Prealudium, quasi cadenza
04. Spinoza Translations: II. Bourdon
05. Spinoza Translations: III. Prealudium
06. Spinoza Translations: IV. Moritat vom Aberglauben
07. Spinoza Translations: V. Melody
08. Spinoza Translations: VI. Finale
09. A Nay Kleyd
10. Eine Deutsch-Jiddische Kantate: I. Dreistimmiges Prealudium
11. Eine Deutsch-Jiddische Kantate: II. Wiegenlied
12. Eine Deutsch-Jiddische Kantate: III. Deutsche Arie
13. Eine Deutsch-Jiddische Kantate: IV. Jiddische Arie
14. Eine Deutsch-Jiddische Kantate: V. Grabschrift
15. Shudh Sarang-Sextet ('Wanderlust')
16. Tsuchigumo: I. Prelude
17. Tsuchigumo: II. Chanson
18. Tsuchigumo: III. Recitativo
19. Tsuchigumo: IV. Chanson
20. Tsuchigumo: V. Aria
21. Tsuchigumo: VI. Recitativo
22. Tsuchigumo: VII. Aria
23. Tsuchigumo: VIII. Chaconne
24. Tsuchigumo: IX. Recitativo
25. Tsuchigumo: X. Die Moritat vom grossen Sieg


The conductor Iván Fischer has in recent times come increasingly to the fore as a composer. He began to compose when he was about twenty, writing in a rather avant-garde style fitting for that age, as he says. But it all came to an end as he became more and more absorbed by conducting. Some thirty years later, however, the urge to take up the pen again became irresistible. “A feeling as though I found my true self.” He describes himself not as a composer but as a “composing conductor”. For the many composers whose music he conducts are his teachers and his source of inspiration.

This CD presents a portrait of the composer Iván Fischer. The liner notes are largely based on his own commentary and on that of Habakuk Traber (who writes for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin).

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