Clarinetist Dana Barak specializes in contemporary music performance and has worked closely with composers like Jörg Widmann, George Benjamin, and Helmut Lachenmann.
Recording & Production
This album is a coproduction with Südwestrundfunk (SWR2), a German public broadcasting institution.
Performer Biography
Pianist Roglit Ishay, also a composer, directs the intercultural crossover series 'Musica Mundi Frankfurt' at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main since 2006.
Performer Biography
Violinist Nitzan Bartana has been a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim since 2008.
Album & Artwork
The album cover features 'Steigen Sie ein, mein Fräulein' ('Climb in, Miss') from 'Leben? Oder Theater?' ('Life? Or Theatre?'), a Singspiel by Jewish-German artist Charlotte Salomon, who was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's musical program is guided by the principle that 'music in spite of all' — a response to the 20th century's history of exile, migration, expulsion, and destruction, and the recent challenges to art and culture.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, 'Tränen der Musen' (Tears of the Muses), is also the title of a trio by composer Jörg Widmann featured on this recording.
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