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Artist: ABSOLUTE ENSEMBLE - KRISTJAN JÄRVI Title: ADAMS / SCHÖNBERG Article No.: 00492 Media type: CD Genre: Contemporary Music Label: CCn'C RECORDS Year of release: 2001 Price: EUR 12,50 incl. VAT plus carriage costs For all foreign orders: Declared value is net! |
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Absolute Ensemble · Kristjan Järvi
"John Adams/Arnold Schönberg Chamber Symphonies"
John Adams - Chamber Symphony (1992)
Arnold Schönberg - Chamber Symphony Nr. 1, Op. 9
Titles:
John Adams Chamber Symphony (1992)
1) Mongrel Airs
2) Aria with walking bass
3) Roadrunner
Arnold Schönberg Chamber Symphony Nr. 1, Op. 9
for 15 solo instruments (1906)
1) Langsam
2) Sehr rasch
3) Viel langsamer, aber doch fliessend
4) Viel langsamer
5) Etwas bewegter
The Absolute Ensemble (New York) is a "classical band", an ensemble of soloists. A versatile band that plays music of the classical masters, jazz and rock arrangements, and contemporary music of the 20th century, all interpreted through the eyes and ears of musicians who see Miles Davies, Igor Strawinsky, James Brown, The Beatles, and Led Zeppelin as classics. Frank Zappa and Charles Mingus have found a place on the bill with Bach, Beethoven and works of younger composers whom the Ensemble is often the first to promote and present.
The philosophy of the Ensemble is reflected in its choice of music for the debut CD by presenting two pieces, separated by nearly 90 years, both which broke the threshold of sound and ushered in a new era of music. These two works represent the culmination of musical developement, one of 1906 and the other of 1992, each by integrating the spectrum of musical styles into a form that both composers decided to call a chamber symphony.
The hyperactive, insistently aggressive and acrobatic music of popular culture mixed with the music of Schoenberg which is in itself an intense interpretation of life desperately seeking to find worlds of sound beyond the limited palette of tonality, gave way to the creation of John Adams´ Chamber Symphony. Both works are music that are at once flamboyant, virtuosic, and polyphonic: a musical metaphor of a parent desparetely restraining its wild, adventuresome, and insolent child.
Both composers push the envelope of style to its utmost limits, developing an explosive power so great that it barely holds the structure together. Both works are milestones in music, significant for whole generations.
The New York based Estonian conductor Kristian Järvi is a keen advocate of contemporary music. He is the director of the Absolute Ensemble.
Press review:
"Yet though John Adams's postmodern sensibility ends up worlds away from Schoenberg's dogged awareness of historical imperatives, these highly energised performances by the New York based Absolute Ensemble do point up the kinship of the two works. By giving the Schoenberg a lithe directness, it never gets bogged down in the intricate thematic links that blind the single-movement work together, and delivers the climax of the final section with real authority, while it handles the ensemble and metrical challenges that Adams sets his players with great panache and naturalness." BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE JULY 1999 (Andrew Clements)Fliesstext
"John Adams/Arnold Schönberg Chamber Symphonies"
John Adams - Chamber Symphony (1992)
Arnold Schönberg - Chamber Symphony Nr. 1, Op. 9
Titles:
John Adams Chamber Symphony (1992)
1) Mongrel Airs
2) Aria with walking bass
3) Roadrunner
Arnold Schönberg Chamber Symphony Nr. 1, Op. 9
for 15 solo instruments (1906)
1) Langsam
2) Sehr rasch
3) Viel langsamer, aber doch fliessend
4) Viel langsamer
5) Etwas bewegter
The Absolute Ensemble (New York) is a "classical band", an ensemble of soloists. A versatile band that plays music of the classical masters, jazz and rock arrangements, and contemporary music of the 20th century, all interpreted through the eyes and ears of musicians who see Miles Davies, Igor Strawinsky, James Brown, The Beatles, and Led Zeppelin as classics. Frank Zappa and Charles Mingus have found a place on the bill with Bach, Beethoven and works of younger composers whom the Ensemble is often the first to promote and present.
The philosophy of the Ensemble is reflected in its choice of music for the debut CD by presenting two pieces, separated by nearly 90 years, both which broke the threshold of sound and ushered in a new era of music. These two works represent the culmination of musical developement, one of 1906 and the other of 1992, each by integrating the spectrum of musical styles into a form that both composers decided to call a chamber symphony.
The hyperactive, insistently aggressive and acrobatic music of popular culture mixed with the music of Schoenberg which is in itself an intense interpretation of life desperately seeking to find worlds of sound beyond the limited palette of tonality, gave way to the creation of John Adams´ Chamber Symphony. Both works are music that are at once flamboyant, virtuosic, and polyphonic: a musical metaphor of a parent desparetely restraining its wild, adventuresome, and insolent child.
Both composers push the envelope of style to its utmost limits, developing an explosive power so great that it barely holds the structure together. Both works are milestones in music, significant for whole generations.
The New York based Estonian conductor Kristian Järvi is a keen advocate of contemporary music. He is the director of the Absolute Ensemble.
Press review:
"Yet though John Adams's postmodern sensibility ends up worlds away from Schoenberg's dogged awareness of historical imperatives, these highly energised performances by the New York based Absolute Ensemble do point up the kinship of the two works. By giving the Schoenberg a lithe directness, it never gets bogged down in the intricate thematic links that blind the single-movement work together, and delivers the climax of the final section with real authority, while it handles the ensemble and metrical challenges that Adams sets his players with great panache and naturalness." BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE JULY 1999 (Andrew Clements)Fliesstext
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