Composer: Enno Poppe, Wolfgang Heiniger
Performer: Yarn/Wire, Sam Torres
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Wergo
Catalogue: WER73982
Release: 2021
Size: 667 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Poppe: Feld
01. I
02. II
Poppe, Heiniger: Tonband
03. I
04. II-V
05. Heiniger: Neumond
Founded in New York in 2005, the contemporary music quartet Yarn/Wire is made up of two percussionists and two pianists. The group has gained an international reputation for dazzling and innovative programs. This CD features outstanding studio-quality first recordings of three works that grew out of Yarn/Wire’s long association with the artistic team of Wolfgang Heiniger (percussionist, composer, sound designer) and Enno Poppe (pianist, composer, conductor). Heiniger and Poppe have worked together for more than 20 years and the piece “Tonband” (2008/2012) was a collaborative effort: Poppe composed the first two movements and Heiniger the final three. The work is indebted to Stockhausen’s “Kontakte” for piano, percussion, and four-track electronics from 1958–1960 but also contains references to rock music and has an uninhibited approach to melody.