Klangforum Wien, one of the most renowned ensembles for contemporary music, was founded by Beat Furrer in 1985 and has premiered around 600 works by composers from four continents.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Rebecca Saunders, the composer, states that her work begins by filtering out nuances or excluding certain fragments from the world's saturated noise.
Performer Biography
The 23 musicians of Klangforum Wien come from 11 different countries: Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Rebecca Saunders is deeply interested in the sculptural and spatial characteristics of organized sounds, exploring physical phenomena of both the instrument and the musician.
Composer Biography
Rebecca Saunders, a Berlin-based British composer, is a leading international representative of her generation, born in London in 1967.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in August 2020 at the Mozart-Saal, Wiener Konzerthaus, in Vienna, Austria, with Georg Burdicek as the recording engineer and mastering artist.
Composition History
Solo pieces are important in Rebecca Saunders' work, as the solitude of composing transforms into a dialogue with the soloists, whose physicality inspires her.
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