Adriana Hölszky – Wie Ein Gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer Gemischt (2014)
Classical/Contemporary/21st Century | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 44m24s | 184mb
Label: Wergo | cat. no. WER 6789 2
Violent avant-garde sounds here. Especially in the first and last tracks, the organ creates an atmosphere so ominous that you will scarcely believe it. As for that first track, it carries an apt title: a glass sea mixed with fire. That is exactly what you get; somehow, it sounds just like that.
I will definitely get more of this highly interesting composer.
Adriana Hölszky is Romanian composer of Austrian-German parentage. Her parents were scientists. She began to study the piano with Olga Rosca-Berdan at the Bucharest music school in 1959 and to compose in 1961. She studied composition with Ştefan Niculescu at the Bucharest Conservatory (1972–5) and in 1976, when the family moved to Germany, continued her studies with Milko Kelemen, Günter Louegk and Erhard Karkoschka (electronic music). She attended the summer academy at the Salzburg Mozarteum (1977, 1978), and the Accademia Chigiana, Siena (1980), with Franco Donatoni. She was the pianist of the Lipatti Trio, 1977–80 and taught at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule, 1980–89. Her awards include many prizes for composition: the Valentino Bucchi, Rome (1979); Gaudeamus (1981); Max Deutsch, Paris (1982); Stamitz, Mannheim (1985); German record critics’ prize (1988–9); GEDOK, Mannheim (1985, 1989); the women composers’ prize, Heidelberg (1990); and others. She has taught at the Darmstadt summer courses and the Musikhochschule, Rostock (1997–) and been a member of international juries.
In her compositions Hölszky strives for originality, distancing herself, however, from the mainstream of the avant garde to an extent comparable to the gulf between Indian and Western thought: geometric forms, chemical processes and dramatic situations determine structural ideas, and the principles of mathematical ordering are set against ‘chaotic’ inspiration. In her opera Bremer Freiheit the main character, a murderess who kills with poison, can be seen as a female counterpart to Bartók’s Bluebeard.
Tracks:
01. Und Ich sah wie ein gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer gemischt (organ) [0:13:01.88]
02. Efeu und Lichtfeld (organ and violin) [0:08:22.97]
03. Und wieder dunkel (organ and percussion) I [0:05:41.53]
04. Und wieder dunkel (organ and percussion) II [0:06:53.66]
05. Und wieder dunkel (organ and percussion) III [0:04:35.96]
06. Und wieder dunkel (organ and percussion) IV [0:05:52.54]
Performers:
Dominik Susteck - organ
Sabine Akiko Ahrendt – violin
Jenn Brülls – percussion
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