Composer: Klaus Huber
Performer: Katharina Rikus, Christoph Werkhausen, Mariana Doughty, Hugo Noth, Jean-Jacques Dünki, Arditti Quartet, Hungarian Radio Choir
Orchestra: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Brad Lubman, Lucas Vis
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Neos
Catalogue: NEOS12203-04
Release: 2022
Size: 467 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Oratio Mechtildis
01. No. 1, Andante molto espressivo – Poco allegro
02. No. 2, Molto tranquillo
03. No. 3, Poco sostenuto – Agitato – Largo
04. Interludium “Velum”
05. No. 4, Epilogus
06. Umkehr (Im Licht sein)
CD 02
Das kleine Lied, Pt. 1
01. No. 1, Wer bist Du?
02. No. 2, Ich hatte einen kleinen, stillen Traum
03. No. 3, Ich halte die Hände empor
04. No. 4, Eine kleine Blüte?
05. No. 5, Meine Seele singt
06. No. 6, Ruinen
07. No. 7, Ich bin gelaufen
Das kleine Lied, Pt. 2
08. No. 1, Mit off’nen, wachen Augen
09. No. 2, Und wieder klingt es leise auf in mir
10. No. 3a, Einst warst du mein
11. No. 3b, Ich kann nicht weinen
12. No. 4, Nicht zurücksehen
13. No. 5, Doch wir sind auf die Brücke getreten
14. No. 6, Und gehen nun zu beiden Seiten
15. No. 7, Kleines Lied, schwing dich hinüber
16. Ein Hauch von Unzeit (Version for Voice & Accordion)
17. Nous!? (La raison du cœur)
Intarsioso
18. No. 1, Intarsioso
19. No. 2, Pianto – Specchio di memorie
20. No. 3, Unità
This double CD of world premiere recordings of vocal works by Klaus Huber (19242017) is a document of the special artistic partnership between Huber and his daughter, the contralto Katharina Rikus. Just as she was strongly influenced by her father in her relationship to music, her voice was the inspiration for many of the works recorded here. Singing his music, Rikus says, requires a very precise ear and rhythmic security, combined with great openness in interpretation. “I worked intensively and persistently on the works with him and am grateful to him from the bottom of my heart for his trust in me.”
The most important work on this double album is “Umkehr im Licht sein …” for choir, mezzo-soprano, speaker and small orchestra, composed in 1997 and a milestone in the creative phase of the late 1990s. It is preceded by another orchestral work: “Oratio Mechtildis” bears the subtitle “Chamber symphony for chamber orchestra with alto voice” characteristic of Huber’s free approach to classical forms and instrumentation. Thus, on the purely chamber-musical second CD there are no traditional piano songs, but duets for voice and viola (“Das kleine Lied”), “Ein Hauch von Unzeit” in the version for voice and accordion and the solo work “Nous!? – La raison du cur …”, as well as one of Klaus Huber’s last compositions, “Intarsioso” for piano, string quartet and alto voice.