Gerd Zacher: Event(ualitie)s – Solo and Duo Compositions - Wergo: WER73942 - 2 CDs or download

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Release Date: 28th Aug 2020
Catalogue No: WER73942
Label: Wergo
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

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Zacher, G: 75 Event(ualitie)s: Realisation 1

Work length20:09

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Juan Allende-Blin, Matthias Geuting

Zacher, G: Glossar, Op. 2

Work length6:49

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$2.80

Evelin Degen, Alfred Pollmann

Glossar I

Track length4:43

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$1.40

Glossar II

Track length2:06

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$1.40

Zacher, G: Projektion

Work length5:50

$1.00

$1.40

Thomas Günther

Zacher, G: Fünf Transformationen, Op. 3

Work length5:37

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$7.00

Thomas Günther

Transformation I

Track length1:01

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$1.40

Transformation II

Track length1:10

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$1.40

Transformation III

Track length1:26

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$1.40

Transformation IV

Track length0:27

$1.00

$1.40

Transformation V

Track length1:33

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$1.40

Zacher, G: Das Gebet Jonas im Bauche des Fisches

Work length10:22

$1.50

$2.10

Hasti Molavian, Matthias Geuting

Zacher, G: Explosiva

Work length5:42

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$1.40

Matthias Geuting

Zacher, G: L’heure qu’il est

Work length28:58

Album only

Tomas Bächli, Gertrud Schneider

Zacher, G: 75 Event(ualitie)s: Realisation 2

Work length20:13

Album only

Juan Allende-Blin, Matthias Geuting

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Gerd Zacher is an important figure in every history of twentieth century music. He was the most important New Music organist in the world, and it was thanks to him that composers such as György Ligeti, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, and Isang Yun wrote so much music for the organ. It is less well known that Gerd Zacher was also an excellent composer, since he long withheld his compositions from the public. His cycle for organ, “Die Kunst der Fuge”, was released in 1990 (WER 61842), but most of his works remain to be discovered, and WERGO is now proud to present posthumously a second portrait album: “Event(ualitie)s”. The music is fascinating and full of surprises. These are the first recordings of all the works on the album, most of which were prepared in consultation with either Zacher himself or his longtime companion, composer Juan Allende-Blin. A central artistic question for Zacher was always the relationship between composition and improvisation, notation and interpretation. The solo and duo works on this double album were composed over a span of more than fifty years. They are for the most part precisely notated, but there are also passages that leave broad discretion to the performer, as in “75 Event(ualitie)s”, dedicated to John Cage. The duo compositions in particular give a lively impression of Zacher’s ability to create a musical dialogue between spontaneity and consideration.

Gerd Zacher: Event(ualitie)s – Solo and Duo Compositions

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