New compositions for chamber orchestra
The five compositions on this CD, published for the first time, impressively demonstrate “on the ears” just how diverse sacred music can be on the pulse of time.
The Tyrolean composer Katharina Blassnigg focuses on the creative process in her work creatio continua: A string quartet positioned behind the listeners symbolizes the world of ideas and, starting from a filigree soundscape, develops a dialogue with the orchestra in the front part of the church. Helmut Jasbar embarks on a journey of self-discovery in his work The Creation. Beta Version and lets the solo speaker Christian Reiner formulate the question in the search for the boundary between the outer and inner world: “What happened before Haydn’s Creation?”
Franz Baur addresses the fundamental musical question of “heaven” and “primordial heaven” as well as the role of the human as creator in his work anElysion in which Simon Reitmaier is the solo clarinettist.
Andreas Trenkwalder turns his attention to the Exodus. His work of the same name is a collage of different musical and extra-musical perspectives. The internationally renowned cellist, Ramón Jaffé, can be heard as a soloist.
Finally, the South Tyrolean composer Manuel Zwerger makes The Promised Land seem attainable for a short period of time. However, it immediately recedes into the distance again.