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Kukelka: Aufruf zur hochsten Schau (Selected vocal & chamber music works)
Gramola Records

Kukelka: Aufruf zur hochsten Schau (Selected vocal & chamber music works)

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Details

Composer
Alexander Kukelka
Artist
Gunter Haumer, Andreea Chira, Moritz Weiss, Kaori Nishii, Wolfgang Kornberger, Koehn
Format
CD
Label
Gramola Records
Released
May 31, 2024
Catalog #
GRAM99325
UPC
9003643993259

About

Since 2004, the lost world of the former “Buchenland” (Beech Country) with its Jewish-Christian culture, which was expelled and destroyed by Naziism, has played a special role in Alexander Kukelka’s oeuvre – his ancestors came from Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) and the former Bukovina. The album “Call to the Highest Vision” is a follow-up to the production “Czernowitzer Skizzen” released in 2008, and stands as a further attempt to pay compositional tribute to this historically unique “multi-ethnic mosaic” on the edge of the Carpathians with its capital Czernowitz, also known as “Little Vienna” or “Jerusalem on the Pruth”. The selected works combine most diverse styles of composing, with works ranging from the concerto for nai (pan flute) and string quintet, songs for bass baritone, bass clarinet and piano, Meditations for solo clarinet and Klezmore Orchestra, works with ironic titles such as “About a March That Set Out to Learn How to Dance – Humoresque for Wind Quartet” or “Requiem for a Dead End – Farce for Flute, Cello and Piano”. However, no “historical distance” or compositional employment can relativize or explain the irretrievable loss of this unique linguistic and cultural landscape, in which half a dozen ethnic groups dreamed of a better world in peaceful coexistence on the eve of the Shoah.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Arioso con Variazioni 05:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Arioso con Variazioni
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok
    Conductor
    Alexander Kukelka
  3. 2 II. Burlesca 02:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Burlesca
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok
    Conductor
    Alexander Kukelka
  4. 3 III. Lamento 03:45
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Lamento
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok
    Conductor
    Alexander Kukelka
  5. 4 IV. Epilogo 04:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Epilogo
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok
    Conductor
    Alexander Kukelka
  6. 5 No. 1. Worte zu einer inneren Musik 04:05
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. Worte zu einer inneren Musik
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii
  7. 6 No. 2. Die Wolken 02:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. Die Wolken
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii
  8. 7 No. 3. Trau noch dem Frühling nich 02:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Trau noch dem Frühling nich
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii
  9. 8 No. 4. Ich gehe durch meine Tage 02:57
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 4. Ich gehe durch meine Tage
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii
  10. 9 Meditation No. 1 05:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    Meditation No. 1
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Moritz Weiss, Sophie Stocker, Yu-Hsuan Lin
  11. 10 Meditation No. 3 03:05
    Track
    10
    Title
    Meditation No. 3
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Moritz Weiss, Sophie Stocker, Yu-Hsuan Lin
  12. 11 Meditation No. 6 04:58
    Track
    11
    Title
    Meditation No. 6
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Moritz Weiss, Sophie Stocker, Yu-Hsuan Lin
  13. 12 Aufruf zur höchsten Schau 07:04
    Track
    12
    Title
    Aufruf zur höchsten Schau
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Anne Harvey-Nagl, Joanna Lewis, Melissa Coleman, Kaori Nishii, Piotr Motyka
    Conductor
    Alexander Kukelka
  14. Disc 2
  15. 1 String Quintet 06:18
    Track
    1
    Title
    String Quintet
    Duration
    06:18
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Joanna Lewis, Anne Harvey-Nagl, Marta Potulska, Melissa Coleman, Asja Valcic
  16. 2 Ständchen 04:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    Ständchen
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Peter Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager
  17. 3 No. 1. Scherzino 00:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. Scherzino
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Kaori Nishii
  18. 4 No. 2. Bagatelle 03:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 2. Bagatelle
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Kaori Nishii
  19. 5 No. 3. Nostalgia 01:46
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 3. Nostalgia
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Kaori Nishii
  20. 6 No. 4. Epilog 01:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 4. Epilog
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Kaori Nishii
  21. 7 Von einem Marsch, der auszog, das Tanzen zu lernen 04:29
    Track
    7
    Title
    Von einem Marsch, der auszog, das Tanzen zu lernen
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Wolfgang Kornberger, Josef Bednarik, Marion Janda, Thomas Steinwender
  22. 8 Toi-Toi-Toi! 03:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    Toi-Toi-Toi!
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Marlies Gaugl, Wolfgang Kornberger, Marion Janda
  23. 9 If You Make a Noise, Make It Quietly! 03:48
    Track
    9
    Title
    If You Make a Noise, Make It Quietly!
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Marlies Gaugl, Wolfgang Kornberger, Marion Janda
  24. 10 I. Funeral March 05:13
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Funeral March
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Marlies Gaugl, Marta Kordykiewicz, Doris Kitzmantel
  25. 11 II. Necrology 04:45
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Necrology
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Marlies Gaugl, Marta Kordykiewicz, Doris Kitzmantel
  26. 12 III. Resurrection 03:53
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Resurrection
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Alexander Kukelka
    Performer
    Marlies Gaugl, Marta Kordykiewicz, Doris Kitzmantel