Composer: Fumio Yasuda
Performer: Ferhan Önder, Ferzan Önder, Gareth Davis, Joachim Badenhorst, Kelvin Hawthorne, Klaus-Peter Werani, Mathis Nitschke, Stefan Winter, Aarón Zapico
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Winter & Winter
Catalogue: 9102682
Release: 2022
Size: 911 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Ninth Wave (Ode to Nature), Pt. 1 “Infinite Blue”
01. I. Water and Air [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 112]
02. II. Afterlife [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 109]
03. III. Seafoam [After L.V. Beethoven Opp. 131 & 134]
The Ninth Wave (Ode to Nature), Pt. 2 “Deep Green”
04. I. Forest [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 72]
05. II. Wandering [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 67]
06. III. Under the Waterfall [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 123]
The Ninth Wave (Ode to Nature), Pt. 3 “Red Zone”
07. I. At the Bank of River Styx [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 92]
08. II. Red Rain [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 72]
09. III. The Great Wave [After L.V. Beethoven Op. 125]
Fumio Yasuda (composition) and Stefan Winter (sound art) conceive a trilogy based on Ludwig van Beethoven in the timbres “Infinite Blue”, “Deep Green” and “Zone Red”. Conducted by Aarón Zapico, Ferhan & Ferzan Önder (piano), Joachim Badenhorst (clarinet), Gareth Davis (bass clarinet), Kelvin Hawthorne and Klaus-Peter Werani (viola) performs. Mathis Nitschke and Stefan Winter create a dialogue with the narrative power of the noises. The Ninth Wave is about the beauty of nature and the tragedy of the human within it. “”Beethoven as a total work of art”” was the headline in the Süddeustsche Zeitung when “”The Ninth Wave”” was performed in Munich as a co-production of Neue Klangkunst and Deutschlandfunk. Beethoven’s oeuvre, Géricault’s painging “”The Raft of the Medusa “” and Dante’s book ”Divine Comedy”” are the base for this work … but there is also a concrete trigger: the tragedy off the shore of Lampedusa on October 3, 2013.