Furrer: Piano Concerto, Invocation, Spur, Fama, Retour an dich & Lotófagos I

Featuring

Peter Rundel
Nicolas Hodges
Petra Hoffmann
Eva Furrer
Frank Gutschmidt
Isabelle Menke

Benjamin Kobler
Ekkehard Windrich
Ringela Riemke
Tora Augestad
Uli Fussenegger
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln
KNM Berlin
Beat Furrer

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Performer Biography

Uli Fussenegger, a double bassist on this album, has had numerous solo works composed for and premiered by him, and is also the founder of the CD label DURIAN Records.

Composer Biography

Beat Furrer, born in Switzerland in 1954, moved to Vienna in 1975 to study conducting and composition, and later founded the Klangforum Wien in 1985.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Beat Furrer's compositions often make segments of reality reverberate, which he hears, collects, studies, and re-composes, focusing on details or placing them in complex relationships.

Performer Biography

Eva Furrer, a flutist on this album, specialized in contemporary music after several years of orchestral work and became a member of Klangforum Wien in 1990.

Compositional Technique

Beat Furrer's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2007) is a "composed spatialization" of the piano's sound, where the large orchestra acts as an amplifier and resonant space for the solo instrument.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Since the 1990s, Beat Furrer has described his compositional process as a "search for traces" in concrete sound, akin to an archaeologist excavating layers of material.

Composer's Artistic Vision

A recurring theme in Beat Furrer's work is the scream, which he sees as an extreme dimension of expressivity and a dramatic event, often found in his music-theater and other compositions.