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Though the word music is feminine in all languages in which words have genders, the profession of the church organist has been overwhelmingly dominated by men up to the present day. Despite this prohibitive bias,...

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Release Date: June 01, 1999

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Convinced that the Revelation of Saint John was the response to questions that man has posed since the beginning of time, and that music has the power of evoking something and making it comprehensible even...

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Release Date: May 01, 1998

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With this CD, WERGO publishes most of Henze's works for piano solo. Piano music occupies only a small part of his existing oeuvre, whereas Hans Werner Henze has written regularly for the piano in combination...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 01, 1994

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ECHO Klassik 2002 within the category "World Premiere Recording of the Year"! Hartmann's five one-act operas, which had their first premiere (for which we have to thank Hans Werner Henze) 58 (!) years after their...

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Release Date: April 01, 2001

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Paul Hindemith was motivated to work with Gottfried Benn after he had read his article "Can Writers Change the World?". In it Benn states, in opposition to the political program of salvation of his days:...

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Release Date: August 01, 1996

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Although Jamilia Jazylbekova has very strong ties to her native Kazakhstan, her creative urge cannot be boiled down to the local musical culture. "What's new and exciting about her music", says Kasper de Roo, who...

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Release Date: December 01, 2011

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The Franconian composer Walter Zimmermann deliberately drew on Maeterlinck's theatrical revolution, the anti-dramatic radicality, when in 1984 he composed his static drama "Die Blinden" after Maeterlinck's "Les Aveugles". It is the "Dialogue of the Two...

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Release Date: August 01, 1996

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"Carmina Burana" - Carl Orff's famous work for vocal soloists, large mixed choir and large orchestra based on a collection of medieval texts - in the piano version?! The piano was for Carl Orff a...

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Release Date: November 01, 1992

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After the release of Pierre Henry's "La Ville. Die Stadt" and John Cage's "Roaratorio. An Irish Circus on 'Finnegans Wake' " within the CD series "Ars Acustica", WERGO continues this CD series with Bill Fontana's...

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Release Date: April 01, 1994

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Joaqu�n Turina is one of the principal composers of the twentieth-century Spanish nationalist school. With Isaac Alb�niz, Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla he forms part of the group which marked the emergence of modern...

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Release Date: August 01, 1992

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The music of Wilhelm Killmayer needs no declaration of facts, nor a declaration of love. Like almost no other music it "emanates from itself", is autonomic. For the premiere of "fin al punto" (which was...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 01, 1996

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Pioneers of the Ars Acustica: Every radio plays is to be understood in the most general sense, as an auditory experience in which all of the sound phenomena, whether sounds, words, or noises, are in...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 01, 1998

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In Adriana H�lszky's opera "Bremer Freiheit", Geesche leads her fellows with cheerful nonchalance to their doom. The murders follow in regular succession, with no more passion or sentimentality than "Ten Little Indians". What H�lszky wanted...

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Release Date: October 01, 1992

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To pigeonhole Schenker in the category of “progressive expressionism”, however, is to display an ignorance or misunderstanding of the range and variety of his oeuvre to date. There is nothing in the altercations between East...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 1996

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The Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister holds an important position in the musical history of our century as a significant composer of operas. Sutermeister's numerous religious works are among the most important of those independent and...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 01, 1996