Ensemble Musikfabrik: Sturm
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SKU: NX.WER68682

By Dirk Rothbrust, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Marino Pliakas, Olivia Vermeulen, Peter Brotzmann, and Peter Schone. By Kaija Saariaho, Michael Wertmuller, and Steffen Schleiermacher. Classical, Contemporary Era. Classical. Listening CD. Naxos #WER68682. Published by Naxos (NX.WER68682).

Conducted by Jean Deroyer; Emilio Pomarico; Christian Eggen.

Stormy sounds of widely varying ""wind quality"" blow through the pieces on the new release by Edition Musikfabrik. In Steffen Schleiermacher's Das Tosen des staunenden Echos (The roar of the amazed echo) the paradox of a ""roaring stillness"" unfolds in a kind of cantus firmus - echoing ritual recitations from Laos - which meanders amongst the various instruments and moves towards its finale with sonic force. Kaija Saariaho's storm references are more literary in nature: Shakespeare's play The Tempest serves as a backdrop for her Songbook of the same name and provides the lyrics for the pieces sung finely nuanced by Olivia Vermeulen and Peter Schone. In antagonisme controle, by Michael Wertmuller, the storm takes place in the formal structure of the work, where the different temperatures of free jazz and new music collide: Peter Brotzmann - on of the leading free jazz-artists today - together with Ensemble Musikfabrik's percussionist, Dirk Rothbrust, on drumset and Marino Pliakas on e-bass create a high pressure system to face the headwind of the full ensemble. The booklet poster shows Gerhard Richter's Red-Blue-Yellow from 1973, which artistically comments on the thematic bundling of the programme from the highlights of the series ""Musikfabrik im WDR"". Richter has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ensemble Musikfabrik since 2009.

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