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KARLSRUHER SCHULE

WOLFGANG RIHM · EUGEN WERNER VELTE · JÖRG WIDMANN · REBECCA SAUNDERS · JOACHIM KREBS
with: Reinhold Friedrich · Frank Dupree · Benedict Kloeckner · Sontraud Speidel · Martin Ostertag · Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken

3CD-Set · C7367 PC: 23 UPC: 845221073675

The composers and educators Eugen Werner Velte and Wolfgang Rihm as well as alumni whose music is presented here demonstrate the characteristics of a school. The main function of an institution such as the University of Music Karlsruhe is first and foremost as a site for studies and second, a place for individual composition and pedagogic work. The Karlsruhe School is in no way a forced stylistic unit stubbornly passed along simultaneously as a solidified traditional framework. For 50 years, the University of Music Karlsruhe has radiated as a living,
recreative phenomenon of this artistic freedom, extending far into a shared future. In the music of alumni taught by Wolfgang Rihm, ideals of musical freedom and openness continue to resound in concrete form. Jörg Widmann, Rebecca Saunders and Markus Hechtle, among others, contribute to the further development of the unique Karlsruhe School at their professional homes.
Booklet-Errata zur CD „Velte. Rihm. Karlsruher Schule“
(Capriccio C7367,  UPC 845221073675)
•       Die Quelle des biographischen Texts von Eugen Werner Velte auf dem Seiten 18-20 sowie der englischen Fassung auf den Seiten 50-51 ist
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Werner_Velte
(abgerufen am 18.12.2019)
•       Der Wikipedia-Text wurde für das Booklet von Sontraud Speidel geringfügig ergänzt, sie ist jedoch nicht die Autorin des Artikels.

Errata in the booklet of the CD „Velte. Rihm. Karlsruher Schule“
(Capriccio C7367,  UPC 845221073675)
•       The source of the biographical text about Eugen Werner Velte on pages 18-20 (german version) and pages 50-51 (english version) is
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Werner_Velte
(accessed 2019-12-18)
•       The wikipedia text was slightly expanded for the booklet by Sontraud Speidel. However, she is not the orginal author of the full text.
 

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BENNO AMMANN

MISSA DEFENSOR PACIS ad 6–12 voces inaequales in honorem Sancti Nicolai Helvetii Eremitae (1946)
BASLER MADRIGALISTEN · RAPHAEL IMMOOS

C5415 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054155

Benno Ammann’s oeuvre reveals influences from impressionism to free tonality, yet he belongs to no stylistic school. The Swiss composer wrote Missa Defensor Pacis (‘Defender of the Faith’) in 1946 for the official canonisation, at St Peter’s in Rome, of Nicholas of Flüe, patron saint of Switzerland. This prestigious commission, with its complex polyphony, countless variations, and use of the cantus firmus technique, is one of the most important and extensive Masses by a Swiss composer for a cappella choir. 

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HANS ROTT - Orchestral Works Vol. 2

Symphony No.1 in E major · Symphony for strings · Symphonic Movement
GÜRZENICH ORCHESTER KÖLN · CHRISTOPHER WARD,

C5414 PC: 21 UPC: 845221054148

‘Yes, he is so related to my very self that he and I are like two fruits from the same tree, produced by the same soil and fed by the same air.’ (Gustav Mahler)


The premiere of the Symphony No. 1 in E major by Hans Rott, written more than 100 years earlier, in 1989 introduced the international music world to a composer who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. His colleagues and friends included the one or two-year younger composers Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf. Besides Wagner, Bruckner was the most important model for Rott’s first symphonic work. The symphony is the summum opus the not quite twenty-year-old left behind. It is his first and final finished major work. It is the synthesis of what he had written to date and a proclamation of what might have come.

 

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Grigori Frid

Phädra (1985) · Piano Quintet, Op. 72 (1981)
ELISAVETA BLUMINA · VOGLER QUARTETT

C5389 PC: 21 UPC: 845221053899

His monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank (1968) put Grigori Frid on the musical map, beyond the borders of Soviet Russia. Frid was born in the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) of 1915 and had to witness early on how his family fell victim to the seemingly indiscriminate (and in fact deliberately arbitrary) rounds of suppression, arrest, and deportation of the Stalin Regime. His music stands in the aesthetic realm of Dmitri Shostakovich on the one hand, and that of his younger contemporaries Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Alfred Schnittke on the other. His works finds itself influenced by the great Russian tradition but yearning to find new, modern ways – more in line with international trends in music – of expressing itself.

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Pancho Vladigerov Edition: String Concertos

Violin Concertos 1 & 2 · Bulgarian Paraphrases, Op. 18 · Concert Fantasy, Op. 35 · Burlesque, Op. 14
Badev · Schneidermann · Nikolov · BULGARIAN NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA · ALEXANDER VLADIGEROV

2CD-Set · C8064 PC: 21 UPC: 845221080642

From the diversity of Bulgarian musical culture Pancho Vladigerov stands out as undoubtedly the most important composer for the musical self-conception of modern Bulgaria. Apart from the piano, which was Pancho Vladigerov’s primary, expertly mastered instrument (see Capriccio CD C8060 – The Piano Concertos), the violin was second nearest and dearest to him. Undoubtedly the most popular and most often performed composition of Vladigerov’s is his Bulgarian Rhapsody op.16 “Vardar” (1922) – presented here, for violin solo and orchestra. It appears to genuinely tap into the character of Bulgarian life and absolutely nails a specific aspect of the entire country’s culture.


These recordings, produced in the 1970s in Bulgaria, comprise Capriccio's 18-disc Vladigerov Edition that will preserve this colourful music for future generations. Conductor Alexander Vladigerov is the son of Pancho Vladigerov.

 

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