Bernd Alois Zimmermann - recomposed
Douban
Übersicht
Arrangements, originals, quotations, and collages all together reveal an unparalleled compositional style on three intense CDs!
This is the music of B.A. Zimmermann, conducted entirely by Holliger!
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970), one of the most important and most unique composers of the postwar era, presents a 3-CD set that includes many of his first recordings. Originally planned for the 100th anniversary of B.A. Zimmermann's birth, all of the recordings were performed and recorded at the highest possible level, conducted by Heinz Holliger and produced by WDR. It is a set of great interest and a pleasure to have it so comprehensively assembled.
B.A. Zimmermann was the opposite of Stockhausen, the standard-bearer of the avant-garde of his time, and his style was based on a collage-like postmodern approach, in which existing material was recomposed in a new context. This was achieved through the technique and sense of color he developed while arranging various existing songs and piano pieces for orchestra from his youth, and his original masterpieces such as "Aragoana," "Concerto for Orchestra," and "Symphony in One Movement" and numerous arrangements are inseparable. Combining these works into a seemingly chaotic, yet perfectly formed recording, this album is a wonderful example of B.A. Zimmermann's dazzling musical world, which is made up of numerous allusions and rearrangements.
B.A. Zimmermann, who pursued his own path, took his own life shortly after completing "Stillness and Reversal" in 1970. Perhaps his music is more appropriate for the 21st century than for the 20th century, when the postwar avant-garde movement was in full swing.
Tracks
[CD1]
Bernd Alois Zimmermann(1918-1970):Brazilian Fantasy "Aragoana" - Ballet for Orchestra(1951/1955)
Villa-Lobos:The Legend of Caboclo for piano (1920)
[orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1953)]*
Milhaud: Suite of Dances for Piano "Nostalgia for Brazil", Op.67(1920-1921)
Leme" [orchestral version by B.A.Zimmermann(1951)]* #3 "Leme" [orchestral version by B.A.Zimmermann(1951)]*
Sorocaba" [orchestral version by B.A.Zimmermann(1951)]*
Casella: 11 Pieces for Children, Op.35(1920)
No.4 "Bolero" [orchestral version by B.A.Zimmermann(1951)]*
No. 9 "Carillon" [orchestral version by B.A.Zimmermann(1952)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Bolero moderato from "Extemporare" for piano (1943)
[Orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann himself (1950)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: "Chunchitos" for orchestra (1956)* / "Laquitas" (1956)* / "Pjusi-Phias" (1957)*
~Hans Helfritz(1902-1995): Dances and arias based on Bolivian Aymara and Quechua folk songs for piano "Al Amunyas"(1943) based on the 4th, 10th and 3rd
Jean-Baptiste Veccarin: "French Songs of the Eighteenth Century" for piano
from "Songs of France in the Eighteenth Century" (1894)
Bergere Léger" [soprano and orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1950)]*
Mama, tell me" [soprano and orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1950)]* "The Young Girl" [soprano and orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1950)]*
The Young Girl" [vocal and orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1950)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: "A Little Nothing" for small orchestra
~Music of Light, Moon, and Bird, after "The Moonbird" by Marcel Aimé (1964)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: "Rhein Kirmes" for 13 wind instruments.
Dances" (1962)
[CD2]
Bernd Alois Zimmermann:Contrasts, an imaginary ballet music based on an idea by Fred Schneckenburger, for small orchestra (1953)
Mussorgsky: "On the South Bank of the Crimea" for piano (1879-80)
[orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1949)]*
Mussorgsky:Improvisation for Piano "At the Village" (1880)
[B.A.Zimmermann for orchestra (1950)]*
Liszt: "Three Gypsies" for piano and voice (1860)★
[B.A. Zimmermann for voice and orchestra (1953)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann:Intermezzo (Sad Waltz) for orchestra(1949)*
Liszt: "Oh, When I Sleep" for piano and voice (1849)★
[B.A. Zimmermann's version for voice and orchestra (1954)*
Rachmaninoff: "Romance" from Salon Pieces, Op.10 (1894), No.6 ◆ [B.A.Zimmermann for voice and orchestra (1954)
[saxophone and orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann(1950)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1950)* ◎
～Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto for Orchestra (3rd version) based on "Umoresque" from Rachmaninov: Salon Pieces, Op.10 (1894)(1946/49)*
[CD3]
Bernd Alois Zimmermann:Symphony in one movement for large orchestra (2nd version)(1953)
Busoni: "Ballet Scene No.3" from 2 Dances, Op.30a (1889)
[B.A. Zimmermann's version for voice and orchestra (1949)]*
Smetana: Polka for orchestra "The Country Girl" (1879)
[New orchestral version by B.A.Zimmermann (1953) based on Smetana's own piano version (1880)]*
Smetana: "Oves" from Czech Dances for Piano No. 2 (1879)
[B.A. Zimmermann (1950)]* Dvořák: "Oves" from "Czech Dances for Piano No. 2" (1879)
Dvorak: "Chatter" from Poetic Sound Paintings for Piano, Op.85(1889), No.11
[Orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann(1953)]*
Walter Niemann(1876-1953):Teahouse from "Japan" for piano, Op.89(1923), No.1.
[arranged by B.A. Zimmermann for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, harp, and piano (1st version) (ca. 1951)]*
Kodály: "As the Rain Falls on the Street" from Seven Piano Pieces, Op.11 (1910-18), No.3
[arranged version for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, and piano by B.A. Zimmermann (1949)]*
Cyril Scott: "Lotus Country" from 2 Piano Pieces, Op.47, No.1 (published 1905)
[arranged for flute, harp, two violins, viola, cello, and double bass by B.A. Zimmermann (1952)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: "Memories of an Old Ballet" for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, and piano (1950)
~Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer(1656-1746): Suite No. 2 "Calliope" from "Parnassus of Music" (1738) for 9 harpsichord suites, based on ballets
Paul Halecki(1911-2000):Intermezzo scherzo "Father and Son" (published 1938)
[small orchestral version (1963) by Bernardo Pazzi (pseud. B.A. Zimmermann)]*.
Edmund Nick(1891-1974):Blues(1929)
[Orchestral version by B.A. Zimmermann (1954)]*
Bernd Alois Zimmermann:Drawings for orchestra "Stillness and Inversion"(1970)
Performed by.
Sarah Wegener(Soprano*)
Markus Weiss (saxophone◆)
Ueli Wiggett (Piano ◎)
Heinz Holliger (Conductor)
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Recordings
2000, 2002, 2012, 2017, 2018
〈*World premiere recording〉