Vom Himmel zur Hölle (From Heaven To Hell)

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Smolka's "Rush (Hour In Celestial Streets)" imagines angels seduced from their wings to angelic vehicles. On earth, Kagel's "Orchestrion-Straat" has the musicians imitating a machine invented... — The Independent, 6th August 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Jun 2010
Catalogue No: WER68532
Label: Wergo
Series: edition musikFabrik
Length: 59 minutes

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Smolka: Rush (Hour in Celestial Streets)

Work length16:41

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Peter Rundel

Kagel: Orchestrion-Straat

Work length23:00

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Ensemble Musikfabrik
Reinbert de Leeuw

Andriessen, L: Racconto dall’Inferno

Work length19:42

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Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cristina Zavalloni
Reinbert de Leeuw

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The music of the angels as a euphonious affair is a relatively recent notion. In the Old Testament, the polyphonic praise of God was imagined as an overpowering roar. Martin Smolka’s Rush (Hour in Celestial Streets) comes closer to this older concept with its after-work traffic jam, though he also takes a detour through microtonality to write entirely new harmonies.

On earth, light music celebrates a joyous resurrection in a very special ‘music machine’ in Mauricio Kagel’s Orchestrion-Straat.

With his Racconto dall’Inferno (tale from hell), Louis Andriessen sides both with and against Dante, submitting evidence that hell does have a sound—and that anyone caught in its repetitive loops will find it difficult to escape.

"We’re on the highway to hell.” In the immortal words of AC/DC…

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6th August 2010

Smolka's "Rush (Hour In Celestial Streets)" imagines angels seduced from their wings to angelic vehicles. On earth, Kagel's "Orchestrion-Straat" has the musicians imitating a machine invented to imitate musicians...Andriessen's "Racconto Dall'Inferno" plunges us, via four minutes of descending chords, into a Dantean hell of demonically cycling horns and pianos

Vom Himmel zur Hölle (From Heaven To Hell)

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