Sven Helbig - Pocket Symphonies (2013) {Deutsche Grammophon 481 039 8}
Sven Helbig - Pocket Symphonies (2013) {Deutsche Grammophon 481 039 8}
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© 2013 Deutsche Grammophon / Sven Helbig | 481 039 8
Classical / Neo-Classical / Classical Crossover
While Sven Helbig's Pocket Symphonies is presented by Deutsche Grammophon as a collection of lavishly produced songs in symphonic guise, the style has more in common with adult contemporary or easy listening categories than with classical music. Despite the appearance of Kristjan Järvi, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, and the Fauré Quartet, who bring ample talent and commitment to the proceedings, the album actually consists of lush and occasionally lively instrumentals that no one would mistake for western symphonic music, except for the use of an orchestra.
Helbig can't even be described accurately as a crossover artist, because he neither plays with traditional forms nor takes off from classical ideas, but is already firmly set in the sphere of modern studio music. His tracks are arranged to perfection and filled with plaintive melodies, gorgeous sonorities, and rich harmonies, but they offer nothing that suggests symphonic contrasts, modulations, or development. This is no discredit to Helbig, who composes his miniatures with professional skill and presents his themes in digestible pieces, from two to five minutes in length. The dominant mood of the album is introspective and melancholy, with some bursts of activity along the way, and Helbig's titles suggest an autumnal resignation and sentimentality that at times evoke the Romantic composers of short character pieces. This album is sure to appeal to casual listeners who like pretty instrumental music in the vein of Karl Jenkins or Ludovico Einaudi, though it is unlikely to draw in serious classical fans.
Sven Helbig - Pocket Symphonies (2013) {Deutsche Grammophon 481 039 8}
Introducing the new album from German composer-producer Sven Helbig, who has worked with Rammstein, Pet Shop Boys, Snoop Dogg, Polarkreis 18 and German rapper Sido. “Pocket Symphonies” are twelve symphonic pearls in the form of songs. Short, infectious, beautifully melodic, and yet with the immensity and depth of symphonic-like works, Helbig draws his inspiration from centuries of power and glory. If you like the music of Einaudi, Reich, Richter, Glass, Jenkins and other accessible contemporary composers, you will be drawn to this music. Helbig’s emotional symphonic images for orchestra and piano are closely connected to his life, experiences, aspirations and also the voids between epochs, systems and continents.
“When one writes a three-and-a-half-minute symphony, a song is automatically created”, according to his own personal ‘credo’. “There is a genetic relationship; but in a song, one has to express within just a few bars what a symphony affords a whole movement for expressing. However, if one compresses a symphony in all of its dimensions of length, dynamics and emotions, then a song is what remains - whether one likes it or not; it doesn’t work any other way. In this respect, the Pocket Symphonies are in fact symphonic songs.” For the recording, Helbig continued his collaboration with the award-winning Faure Quartett - ECHO winners in 2010 for “Klassik ohne Grenzen” (Classic without Borders). The Estonian-American conductor Kristjan Jarvi, who has conducted almost all of the world’s great orchestras, accompanies Helbig and the Faure Quartett. Jarvi called the Pocket Symphonies “probably one of the best things I’ve ever done.”
Sven Helbig - Pocket Symphonies (2013) {Deutsche Grammophon 481 039 8}
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Musicians
Fauré Quartett
MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony
Kristjan Järvi
Track Listing
01 - Gone
02 - Frost
03 - Am Abend
04 - Eisenhuttenstadt
05 - Autumn Song
06 - A Tear
07 - Urban Perfume
08 - Sing for the Moment
09 - Bell Sound Falling Like Snow
10 - Zorn
11 - Rise
12 - Schlaflied
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Sven Helbig / Pocket Symphonies
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Sven Helbig - Pocket Symphonies (2013) {Deutsche Grammophon 481 039 8}
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