Zimmermann: Alagoana, Sinfonie in einem Satz, Photoptosis & Stille und Umkehr

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[Photoptosis] is usually considered Zimmermann's defining work but never has it sounded so raw-boned and unrelenting: kudos to the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Karl-Heinz Steffens... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2014
Catalogue No: C5213
Label: Capriccio
Series: moderntimes
Length: 69 minutes

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Zimmermann, B A: Alagoana. Caprichos Brasileiros

Work length29:15

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Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Karl-Heinz Steffens

I. Ouvertüre

Track length7:18

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II. Sertanejo

Track length4:10

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$1.30

III. Saudade

Track length6:26

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IV. Caboclo

Track length4:24

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V. Finale

Track length6:57

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Zimmermann, B A: Sinfonie in einem Satz (2nd Version, 1953)

Work length14:23

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Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Karl-Heinz Steffens

Zimmermann, B A: Photoptosis - Prelude for large orchestra

Work length16:34

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Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Karl-Heinz Steffens

Zimmermann, B A: Stille und Umkehr

Work length9:10

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Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Karl-Heinz Steffens

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Among the German avant-garde composers after the Second World War, he was the great outsider. Despite all ruthless innovation, his creative ethos was characteristic of the German tradition in the dimensions of idealistic and philosophical complexity and bitter and disjointed tragedy. Zimmermann was initially strongly influenced by the polyphonic currents of neo-Classicism and Expressionism in the wake of Hindemith, Jarnach and Stravinsky, but his own voluminous and daring characteristics quickly crystallized. It was not to be an easy position for him over the next two decades, as he felt himself to be the eldest among the young composers and at best saw companions in his elder colleagues Luigi Dallapiccola and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. It was only the premiere of his opera Die Soldaten that brought him broad and undisputed recognition, and Die Soldaten was soon considered the most important German opera since Alban Berg. As start for the upcoming CD edition “modern times” the conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens and his orchestra, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, take care of the most unknown orchestral pieces of this composer.

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November 2014

[Photoptosis] is usually considered Zimmermann's defining work but never has it sounded so raw-boned and unrelenting: kudos to the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Karl-Heinz Steffens for pulling off such a chancy, intrepid performance.

4th September 2014

The symphony is impressively taut and compact...Karl-Heinz Steffens's performance of Stille und Umkehr, Zimmermann's final orchestral work, reveals it to be a haunting and obsessive miniature masterpiece that is hard to forget.

Zimmermann: Alagoana, Sinfonie in einem Satz, Photoptosis & Stille und Umkehr

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