VA - Rückblick Moderne - 20th Century Orchestral Music [8CD Box Set] (1999)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Rückblick Moderne - 20th Century Orchestral Music
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Col Legno [WWE 8CD 20041]
Genre: Classical, Modern, Contemporary
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 9:23:21
Total Size: 1.27 gb / 1.99 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Rückblick Moderne - 20th Century Orchestral Music
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Col Legno [WWE 8CD 20041]
Genre: Classical, Modern, Contemporary
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 9:23:21
Total Size: 1.27 gb / 1.99 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
It starts, appropriately enough, with Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, which seems to hold its breath, and occasionally exhale in brief bursts of panic, as the new century unfolds. It ends with Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony Op. 110a (based on his String Quartet No. 8), whose alternating sequences of anguish, alarm, and derision come as close as possible for absolute music to indicting its bloody history--eight CDs and over 30 works later.
Rückblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music represents as fine a look back at musical modernism as you're likely to get. And in what a lavish package! A tall box holding two multi-CD jewel boxes and a beautifully printed booklet with photographs of modern and postmodern architecture and extensive liner notes (in German). Even the CDs themselves look handsome. All the more amazing when you realize that the entire set was digitally recorded live--with coughs, turning pages, chair creaks, and vivid sound--during one week in 1998 in Stuttgart (where, it seems, you have to travel nowadays even to hear about this kind of music), by such groups as the RSO Saarbrücken and the Bamberger Symphoniker, led by Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Gielen, Heinz Holliger, and other risk takers. Each CD has been programmed around a theme; for example, "Explosion/Implosion" (featuring Varèse and Mahler's tone poem Totenfeier, later becoming the first movement of his Second Symphony) and "Minimal Postludien," which includes (heads up, completists) Philip Glass's Echorus for two solo violins and string orchestra and Ligeti's Ramifications. Stravinsky, who, like Schoenberg and Cage, appears to cast a long shadow over this imposing collection, remains one of the highlights: a sharp, fiercely erotic performance of Le Sacre by Lothar Zagrosek and the Stattsorchester Stuttgart that helps remind us how much modern music has done, in the face of controversy and disaster, to ground us in our humanity. --Robert Burns Neveldine
Rückblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music represents as fine a look back at musical modernism as you're likely to get. And in what a lavish package! A tall box holding two multi-CD jewel boxes and a beautifully printed booklet with photographs of modern and postmodern architecture and extensive liner notes (in German). Even the CDs themselves look handsome. All the more amazing when you realize that the entire set was digitally recorded live--with coughs, turning pages, chair creaks, and vivid sound--during one week in 1998 in Stuttgart (where, it seems, you have to travel nowadays even to hear about this kind of music), by such groups as the RSO Saarbrücken and the Bamberger Symphoniker, led by Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Gielen, Heinz Holliger, and other risk takers. Each CD has been programmed around a theme; for example, "Explosion/Implosion" (featuring Varèse and Mahler's tone poem Totenfeier, later becoming the first movement of his Second Symphony) and "Minimal Postludien," which includes (heads up, completists) Philip Glass's Echorus for two solo violins and string orchestra and Ligeti's Ramifications. Stravinsky, who, like Schoenberg and Cage, appears to cast a long shadow over this imposing collection, remains one of the highlights: a sharp, fiercely erotic performance of Le Sacre by Lothar Zagrosek and the Stattsorchester Stuttgart that helps remind us how much modern music has done, in the face of controversy and disaster, to ground us in our humanity. --Robert Burns Neveldine
:: TRACKLIST ::
CD 1
Charles Ives
01 The unanswered question [1908] for chamber orchestra
SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Rupert Huber
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
John Cage
02 Five [1988] for five voices
03 Four² [1990] for chorus
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart/Rupert Huber
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Pierre Boulez
04 Cummings ist der Dichter [version 1986] for 16 solo voices or mixed choir and orchestra
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart/SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Rupert Huber
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Morton Feldman
05 Coptic Light [1986] for orchestra
SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Rupert Huber
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
CD 2
Edgard Varèse
01 Ionisation [1934] for percussion ensemble of 13 players
Percussionsklasse Klaus Tresselt/Zementwerk/Thomas Ungar
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Anton Webern
02 Fünf Stücke für Orchester Op. 10 [1913]
Orchester der Musikhochschule Stuttgart/Thomas Ungar
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Edgard Varèse
03 Ionisation [1934] for percussion ensemble of 13 players
Percussionsklasse Klaus Tresselt/Zementwerk/Thomas Ungar
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Gustav Mahler
04 Totenfeier [1888]. Symphonic poem for large orchestra
György Kurtág
05 ...quasi una fantasia... Op. 27 No. 1 [1987-88] for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space
Béla Bartók
06 Der wunderbare Mandarin Op. 19 [1918-19]. Symphonic suite of orchestra
Orchester der Musikhochschule Stuttgart/Thomas Ungar
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
CD 3
Maurice Ravel
01 Une barque sur l'océan [1904-05] for orchestra Op. Posth.
Beat Furrer
02 Chiaroscuro [1998] for large orchestra
RSO Saarbrücken/Michael Stern
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Bruno Maderna
03 Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra No. 3 [1973]
Oboe: Fabian Menzel/RSO Saarbrücken/Michael Stern
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Claude Debussy
Images [1913] for orchestra
04 Gigues
05 Ibéria: I. Par les rues et par les chemins
06 Ibéria: II. Les parfums de la nuit
07 Ibéria: III. Le matin d'un jour de fête
08 Rondes de printemps
RSO Saarbrücken/Michael Stern
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
CD 4
Olivier Messiaen
Chronochromie [1959-60] for large orchestra
01 Introduction
02 Strophe I
03 Antistrophe I
04 Strophe II
05 Antistrophe II
06 Épôde
07 Coda
Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Lothar Zagrosek
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Helmut Lachenmann
08 Air [1969]. Music for large orchestra and percussion solo
Percussion: Christian Dierstein/Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Lothar Zagrosek
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Igor Stravinsky
Le sacre du printemps [1913] for orchestra
09 I. The Adoration of the Earth
10 II. The Sacrifice
Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Lothar Zagrosek
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
CD 5
Klaus Huber
01 Lamentationes [1992-94] for large orchestra
Mauricio Kagel
Études I-III [1992, 1995-1996] for large orchestra
02 I. Quasi Adagio
03 II. Andante
04 III. Allegretto, ma non troppo
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Michael Gielen
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Luigi Nono
05 Como una ola de fuerza y luz [1971-72] for soprano, piano, orchestra, and tape
Soprano: Eirian Davis/Piano: Stefan Litwin/SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Michael Gielen/Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWR e.V./Sound: André Richard
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 199
CD 6
Elliott Carter
Three Occasions for Orchestra [1986, 1988-89]
01 A celebration of some 100x150 notes [1986]
02 Remembrance [1988]
03 Anniversary [1989]
SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Heinz Holliger
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Heinz Holliger
Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von George Trakl
04 Ein Winterabend [1993] for alto and orchestra
05 Rondel [1993-97] for alto and harp
06 Nachtlied [1993] for alto and orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg
Vier Lieder [1913-16] for voice and orchestra Op. 22
07 Seraphita (Dowson)
08 Alle, welche dich suchen (Rilke)
09 Mach mich zum Wächter deiner Weiten (Rilke)
10 Vorgefühl (Rilke)
Alto: Cornelia Kallisch/SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Heinz Holliger
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Alban Berg
Drei Orchesterstücke Op. 6 [version 1929]
11 Präludium
12 Reigen
13 Marsch
SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Heinz Holliger
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
CD 7
Hans Zender
01 Kalligraphie I [1998] for orchestra
Wolfgang Rihm
02 In-Schrift [1995]. Orchesterkomposition
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
03 Adagio (Sinfonie Nr. 2) [1946] for large orchestra
Bamberger Symphoniker/Hans Zender
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu [1966]
04 Entrée de l'Academie Ubu Roi, Captaine Bordure et ses partisans
05 Couplet 1
06 Mère Ubu et ses Gardes
07 Couplet 2
08 Pille, Cotice et l'ours
09 Couplet 3
10 Le Cheval a Phynances et les larbins de Phynances
11 Couplet 4
12 Pavane de Pissembock et Pissedoux
13 Couplet 5
14 Berceuse des petits financiers qui ne peuvant pas s'endormir
15 Couplet 6
16 Marche du décervellage
Cabaretist: Matthias Beltz/Bamberger Symphoniker/Hans Zender
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
CD 8
Alfred Schnittke
Trio-Sonate [1987] for string orchestra
01 I. Moderato
02 II. Adagio
György Ligeti
03 Ramifications [1968-69] for string orchestra
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Dennis Russell Davies
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Philip Glass
04 Echorus [1995] for two solo violins and string orchestra
Violin: Benjamin Hudson, Wolfgang Kussmaul/Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Dennis Russell Davies
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
Dmitri Shostakovich
Kammersinfonie Op. 110a [1960] for string orchestra
05 I. Largo
06 II. Allegro molto
07 III. Allegretto
08 IV. Largo
09 V. Largo
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Dennis Russell Davies
Recording: Live, Rückblick Moderne, Stuttgart, 21-28 November 1998
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