Composer: Franco Donatoni, Ricardo Eizirik, Mauricio Kagel, Brigitta Muntendorf, Piotr Peszat, Pawel Szymanski
Performer: Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: DUX
Catalogue: DUX1698
Release: 2022
Size: 880 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Kagel: Ragtime aus Westen (Version for Piano & Percussion)
02. Donatoni: Arpège (Version for Violin, Cello, Flute, Piano, Clarinet & Percussion)
03. Szymanski: Bagatelle für A.W. (Arr. for Clarinet, Saxophone, Violin & Piano)
04. Muntendorf: Shivers on Speed
05. Peszat: La vie et la passion de Jésus-Christ (2021 Revised Version)
06. Eizirik: Re / Wind / Re / Write (Fast-Break Version)
In 2013 a group of Krakow-based instrumentalists shared the stage as part of the European Workshop for Contemporary Music, conducted by maestro Rudiger Bohn. Having then played together at Darmstadt’s Internationale Ferienkurse fur Nee Musik, the musicians established an independent body. A couple of events held in a community center by one of the town’s exit roads and in a then neglected theater marked the beginnings of Spoldzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble, a group who specializes in performing new music. This is the ensemble’s first entirely self-curated and self-produced album. It includes compositions which shaped the group’s identity.
The Spoldzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble’s first entirely self-curated and self-produced album.
It is a line act balanced between 20th century classics and experiments in sound oriented theatrically. Set in motion by the Kagelian axe-thump, the narrative displays, by turns, the virtuosity of Franco Donatoni, the hyper-energy of Brigitta Muntendorf, Pawel Szymanski’s apparent longing for tradition, and Piotr Peszat’s electronic syntheses, to conclude with a nutty dance on cans and chimes in the piece by Ricardo Eizirik. So, new music conquers a wider horizonjust like Spoldzielnia themselves do.