He must have had an intimate relationship to Numbers, the German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970). Not only have his cantata “Omnia tempus”, which opened the concert of the Collegium Novum in Zurich in a full radio Studio-room, strictly serially composed with well-defined proportions on the basis of a twelve-tone row, out of all the rhythms, timbres, and Durations are derived. There are 17 musicians to the train don’t come any longer precisely Because they are ex-this ensemble size as soloists, and therefore less cost.
mind power, personality
all of This is told Heinz Holliger in his introduction to the concert. But to hear who’s then expected, musical mathematics, or even a written-out saving exercise, was disappointed in the most. Carpenter’s cantata is a stunner, a sensual, highly expressive masterpiece. For a Moment, you marveled at how he has managed, in spite of the abstract of the calculated Durations have a correct emphasis on the old Testament text. Then they left this Text: “Born in his time, to Die has its time; to plant has its time, Tear has> its time…”
<p, And let the voice of the phenomenal soprano Christina Daletska, which was able to fill each word with meaning and personality. As the trumpet blows, some of the sentences sound, other gone with the wind Andes, in a delicate girl; you have reached the highest Top notes, plunges into the deep, sometimes whispers only. And the instruments to respond to them as water, in the throwing stones, and stones: with the help of rings, which trigger more rings; with the waves, the ebb again.
Heinz Holliger, the provides for years that Zimmermann is not reduced to his famous Opera “The soldiers”, has conducted this cantata for the first Time: a godsend for a program that was a typical Collegium-Novum-program – one that puts the works into a perspective, to develop without being too much didactic ambition. You could forget the Motto of the Evening, “From time to time”, also.
Or use it as a hearing aid benefit: when in György kurtág’s “BREFs which lay down the Messages of” the new sounds through medieval techniques were created. If the Pianist Stefan Wirth, Klaus Hubers (by the way, for 17 instrumentalists written) piano Concerto, “Intarsi” seemed to be simultaneously playing in different Tempi. Or if Franz Schreker began in 1916 composed a chamber Symphony with such a placeless dazzling sound that you would you have the guts to even a much later date of origin.
Sympathetic self-irony
That the time sheet is stretched so far that in order to specialize in new music, but also the employment with your roots: This corresponds to the concept of Jens Schubbe, 2010, the Collegium Novum. The management of the company he has made, now he also acts as Artistic Director. His successor is soon to be determined.
Well, that much is different; it is part of this Ensemble that it is reinventing itself again and again. Two things-after all, you would like to recommend to retain: the musical quality, which is currently really high. And the “international cheese” that is served after the concerts: Likeable, self-deprecating and conversation-enhancing the reservations of the New music to be parried skeptics nowhere to go. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 25.03.2019, 09:51 PM
