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Zimmermann: Alagoana, Sinfonie in einem Satz, Photoptosis & Stille und Umkehr

10/7/2014, 8 Tracks, 1:09:27

Featuring

  • Karl-Heinz Steffens
  • Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Bernd Alois Zimmermann, a pioneer, conceived of music history as a timeless continuum and rejected blind faith in progress.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Zimmermann defined musical reality as the sum of all compositional and musical enterprises, leading him to a 'pluralist compositional technique' as a comprehensive synthesis.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Karl-Heinz Steffens, the conductor on this album, was previously the solo clarinettist of the Berlin Philharmonic before becoming a General Music Director.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Five days after completing his Ecclesiastic Action, 'Ich wendete mich und sah alles Unrecht, das geschah unter der Sonne', Bernd Alois Zimmermann committed suicide at age 52.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Zimmermann's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was deployed to Poland, France, and Russia, before being suspended in 1942 due to an allergic illness.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Zimmermann's opera, 'Die Soldaten', was initially rejected as unperformable but, after its 1965 premiere, was considered the most important German opera since those of Alban Berg.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Bernd Alois Zimmermann, born in 1918, was initially intended to become a priest but instead studied school music at Cologne University.

Source: Booklet

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