Composer: Pierre Boulez, John Cage, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, Michael Gielen, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Jorge E López, Luigi Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Orchestra: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Conductor: Michael Gielen
Number of Discs: 6
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: SWR Music
Catalogue: SWR19111CD
Release: 2021
Size: 1.58 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Zimmermann: Requiem for a Young Poet (Live)
01. I. Prolog. Requiem I – Requiem II – Ricercar
02. II. Rappresentazione
03. III. Elegia
04. IV. Tratto
05. V. Lamento
06. VI. Dona nobis pacem
CD 02
Ligeti: Requiem (Live)
01. I. Introitus. Sostenuto
02. II. Kyrie. Molto espressivo
03. III. De die judicii sequentia. Subito agitato molto
04. IV. Lacrimosa. Molto lento
Crumb: Star-Child (Live)
05. I. Introduction. Desolato
06. II. Vox clamans in deserto
07. III. Ascensus potestatum tenebrarum
08. IV. Musica apocalyptica
09. V. Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse
10. VI. Adventus puerorum luminis
11. VII. Hymnus pro novo tempore
CD 03
01. Lopez: Breath – Hammer – Lightning (Live)
02. Lopez: Dome Peak (Live)
CD 04
01. Nono: Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell’op. 41 di Arnold Schoenberg (Live)
02. Nono: A Carlo Scarpa, architetto, ai suoi infiniti possibili (Live)
03.Nono: No hay caminos, hay que caminar (Live)
04. Fel dman: Coptic Light
CD 05
Gielen: 4 Poems
01. No. 1, Breit’ in der stille den geist
02. No. 2, Schwärmer aus zwang weil euch das feste drückt
03. No. 3, Wer ist dein Gott?
04. No. 4, Will ich mein ganzes teil von dir erobern
05. Gielen: Pflicht und Neigung
Kurtág: Stele, Op. 33
06. I. Larghissimo – Adagio
07. II. Lamentoso – Disperato, con moto
08. III. Molto sostenuto
09. Kagel: Ein Brief
CD 06
01. Boulez: Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Boulez: Notations (Version for Orchestra)
02. No. 1, Modéré – Fantasque
03. No. 2. Très vif. Strident
04. No. 3, Très modéré
05. No. 4, Rythmique
06. No. 7, Hiératique. Lent
07. Cage: Concerto (Version for Piano & Orchestra) (Live)
In 2016, SWR Music launched the Michael Gielen Edition, charting the long and distinguished career of the German-Austrian conductor and composer who died in 2019. This tenth instalment contains over seven hours of music written after 1945 and includes several premiere recordings. The volume begins with Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Requiem for a Young Poet, a harrowing portrayal of the 20th century, and continues with Ligeti’s Requiem, George Crumb’s Star-Child, and works by Nono, Feldman, Kurtág, Kagel, Boulez and Cage. Gielen championed composers he believed in; with this final instalment listeners can experience some of the most extraordinary music of the 20th century.