Composer: Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz
Performer: Amaryllis Quartett, Ensemble Obligat, Gustav Frielinghaus, Lena Wirth, Lena Eckels, Yves Sandoz, Imme-Jeanne Klett, Anette Behr-König, Boris Faust, Clemens Malich
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Es-Dur
Catalogue: ES2042
Release: 2013
Size: 398 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
String Quartet No. 3, “Landschaft der Horchenden – Vier Menschen”
01. I. Landschaft mit Rätselbild
02. II. Der See der Trauernden (Portraits der vier Menschen)
03. III. Der Garten der Liebenden
04. IV. Das Tal der Dämonen
05. V. Der Wald der Verwandlungen
06. VI. Der Berg des Schauens
07. Bilder auf dem Grund des Sees
08. Japanische Nebellandschaft
This CD presents three of Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz’s works inspired by Zen Buddhism, all created in relatively close succession: the String Quartet No 3 ‘Landscape of Listeners – Four People’ of 2004/05, the quartet ‘Images at the Bottom of the Lake’ (2009/10) based on the idea of a Japanese flautist playing at a lakeside or in a boat, and ‘Japanese Foggy Landscape’ for flute, the shapes of which remain half-hidden through quartet tones, swaying rhythms and a sound that includes, as with Japanese flutes, noise elements.
The composer Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz was born in Hamburg in 1948, his interest in the cultures of the Far East and particuarly in traditional Japanese culture began towards the end of his schooldays in the early 1960s.