Zum 70. Geburtstag von Dieter Schnebel im März 2000 erschienen zeitgleich die Werke 'Zwischenfugen' (ED8193) und 'Toccata mit Fugen' (ED8630), die jedoch im Abstand von 10 Jahren komponiert worden sin...
Written in the 1970s, Dieter Schnebel's arrangements of the Contrapuncti I, VI and XI from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue have long since been considered classics of contemporary choral musi...
Motetus II ist - wie Motetus I (SKR 20028) - ein räumlich konzipiertes Stück für zwei Chorgruppen. Im Gegensatz zum hymnischen Motetus I ist Motetus II jedoch ein Klagegesang, in den das 'De profundis...
Psalm 112 known from Mendelssohn's musical setting is interpreted by Dieter Schnebel as a song of pilgrimage: Pilgrims setting out on a dangerous path hope for a happy return. Following the text that...
Eli lamah asabthani - My God, why have you left me', this word of Jesus Christ on the cross has been set to instrumental music in the slow movement of the string trio. Taken as an individual setting,...
This string quartet by a grand master of the German avant-garde combines a decidedly traditional four-movement structure with experimental situations in the concert hall. In various sections the perfo...
It is not only with regard to the instrumentation that the string quintet Sonanzen (a play on the words 'consonance' and 'dissonance') follows the famous example of Schubert, and even Wagner's Tristan...
A psychoanalytical as well as emotional interpretation of events from ancient greek mythology. Improvisatory in character these pieces explore contemporary playing techniques. (German text).
The poems selected here are taken from the anthology 'Kein Zauberspruch'[No Magic Formula] (Frankfurt, 1972). As indicated by the title, the original collection focuses on the various characteristic p...
The work is in two parts. 'Lamento di Guerra I' was written in the wake of the Gulf War; an initially plaintive lamentation turns more urgent and ends in howling. 'Lamento di Guerra II', triggered by...
