Composer: Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester
Conductor: Heinz Holliger
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Wergo
Catalogue: WER73872
Release: 2022
Size: 674 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Alagoana. Caprichos Brasileiros
01. I. Ouvertüre
02. II. Sertanejo
03. III. Saudade
04. IV. Caboclo
05. V. Finale
06. A Lenda do Caboclo, W 166
Saudades do Brazil, Op. 67
07. Nr. 3, Leme
08. Nr. 1, Sorocaba
Undici pezzi infantili, Op. 35
09. Nr. 4, Bolero
10. Nr. 9, Carillon
11. Bolero moderato
12. Chunchitos
13. Laquitas
14. Pjusi-Phias
15. Bergère légère
16. Maman, dites-moi
17. Jeunes fillettes
Un petit rien
18. I. Ouverture des belles de la nuit
19. II. Métamorphose lunaire I
20. III. Pas trop militaire
21. IV. Petite valse lunaire
22. V. Berceuse des petits oiseaux qui ne peuvent pas s’endormir
23. VI. Métamorphose lunaire II
24. VII. Boogie-Woogie au clair de la lune
Rheinische Kirmestänze
25. I. Tempo di valse commodo
26. II. Allegretto
27. III. Allegretto
28. IV. Allegro commodo
29. V. Alla marcia
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970) was one of the most distinctive composers in the musical avant-garde after the Second World War. While Karlheinz Stockhausen served as a kind of ‘generator’ in Cologne during the 1950s and 60s, inventing completely new sounds and techniques, Zimmermann was in many ways his opposite, a ‘transformer’ who redefined previously existing material by placing it in new contexts and collage-like structures, anticipating the ideas of the Postmodernists. This new release from WERGO presents a fresh perspective onthe composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose tragic suicide shortly after the completion of “Stille und Umkehr” shocked the musical world. His fascinating instrumental effects and his embrace of popular and traditional music make his works feel much more at home in our contemporary world than they did in the cultural atmosphere of his time, with its faith with technology and progress.